not interesting tale..

[emitbrownne]

This is not very interesting, but then again neither is the work I'm supposed to be doing.

I trained on Saturday as part of a charity event to exhibit various martial arts. There was a variety of Karate skills shown, and much board breaking. Then came our turn with Kendo.
We fought cleanly and full of spirit, and the day went well.

I got home and my right heel was sore...
"Damn" I thought. "I'm landing on my heel again... time to work on footwork."

I trained the next day aware of my footwork, and noticed that I was landing more or less correctly.. so I put the previous days injury down to stupidity.

Yesterday (Wednesday night) I was too ill with a cold to train again so I performed some maintenace on my kit. I was sat in seiza, sorting out my shinai when I felt a sharp pain in my heel.

upon first look it just looked sore, on closer examnation there was a black dot in the centre of the pain.

Out came the tweezers.... and after a couple of minutes of ferreting around, out came a over 3/4 inch splinter, which was embedded in the thick skin on my feet and had just pierced the softer underskin.It was pointing from my heel towards my toes.

It seems the floor wasnt as clear as I thought after the Karate board breakers had finished thier display, and I must have moved back straight onto a splinter.

How did I not notice???

Well I 'm dim for a start, and I put it down to bad footwork.



There are three morals to this story.

1) check the floor you train on before training.
2) examine every injury, never just assume
3) believe me when I say this is not an interesting tale.

cheers
Paulo :D

[xvikingx]

Well, you made my skin crawl.

[Rawoo]

My heel used to hurt as well,
I could not stomp which means I cant attack properly.
I was in pain those days (very unhappy) because I cant go hard and cant enjoy kendo.
I have just started Kendo a couple of months ago.
Now my feet are getting very friendly with that wooden floor.
What I did was I walked as much as possible (travel on foot).
before that I was lazy lol.
:happy:

[kendokamax]

ya feets are too important in kendo,..must take care of them!!

KOTE!!!!!!!!!

[Koushinkuma]

We always sweep the floor before practice...not only does it remove dust and dirt but it also allows a brief visual inspection of the floor.

[litige]

Our dojo is in a university big gym, and just before us, there is a class of old dudes that exercise in shoes... Someone stepped on a rock....a huge one.

[AlexM]

We would like to sweep but someone stole our broom.

[litige]

haha!!!
Alex est-ce que votre dojo fait parti d'un grand gymnase, ou d,un petit local?

[Eldritch Knight]

I trained in a traditional school, so before practice we'd all help out in cleaning the floor (by taking wet towels and running it over the floor with our hands - its difficult at first, but once you get the balance thing down, its actually a very effective way of cleaning).

[AlexM]

haha!!!
Alex est-ce que votre dojo fait parti d'un grand gymnase, ou d,un petit local?

Demande à Martin ou viens voir tabarnak! :D
... c'est un local de taille moyenne avec le meilleur plancher en ville et une salle d'équipement adjacente.

(Translation for the proles: Ask Martin or come see tabarnak!... it's a medium size room with the best floor in town and a adjacent equipment room)

We do the floor cleaning thing with wet towels as well. I can't remember the name for it... Apparently it's a very good excercise: some sensei's in Japan that are about to pass gradings do it to strengthen the lower back (that's an anecdote I heard).

Using the broom is just more convinient alot of the time.