Petrosoap
soo, what's the worst you've been injured while training or in competition?
OR what's the worst you've (accidentally of course) injured someone else?
i haven't really had anything serious happen to me. been hit in the face a few times, bruises and pulled muscles here and there, a lipoma once, but nothing dramatic.
on the other hand when i was much younger we used to do king-of-the-ring type point-based competitions at my dojo and at one point i accidentally kicked a 10 year old in the face. oops. (i was probably 13 or 14. felt awful.)
a couple years ago my sensei asked me to showcase some self-defence techniques with him for some of the advanced students. i knicked his glasses with my foot and they cut open his nose. haha.. had to run away.
one of my good friends has a 4th degree blackbelt in jiu jitsu and can't do it any more because he dislocates his shoulder so easily now. kind of sad. Didn't happen to me personally, but a couple of my friends were doing some friendly sparring in the back yard. Just messing around a bit, neither was actually trained in anything at the time. One of them tends to get a bit overzealous, doesn't really have that little off switch that tells a trained martial artist to pull it back a notch during sparring. He'd been watching Muy Thai videos on YouTube, and somewhere in the process of sparring he managed to lock in a clinch. Before my other friend could get free or I could intervene, my overzealous friend threw what was very nearly a textbook Thai knee, landing it directly on my other friend's nose. Though sure he was going to have to go to the hospital. Turns out, it actually fixed an old sinus problem he had had since he was young.
For myself, I think the worst injuries have been those that anyone suffers while training, sprained ankles and bruises mostly. But then, I've never been up against someone genuinely interested in seriously injuring me.
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