Meditation on injuries and life as a girl fighter
Yesterday Ryuuji and I made an apperance at jishu tore. Three hours of me plus 9 sweaty Japanese men. I kicked the mit so many times my toenail polish fell off. We did kumite for an hour and some guy that I hate kicked me in the neck. It sucked. It got me thinking.......
Remember Ishii-senshu? She's the strongest schlady at our dojo and she was going to fight in Zen-Nihon, but her knee got busted doing kumite against guys and now she can't walk. :/ Sensei kinda pulled me aside and told me the story and told me to be careful, cos he knew about how I busted my wrist at Honbu and how I'm always fighting guys.
At the time I didn't really think much of it. The only other fighter chick that I train with with any regularity is Satomi, and every now and again I get to mix it up with Muraki too. That's it. Everyone else is a dude. So I don't really have any choice, do I?
But after a long kumite session I always hurt. I always come home covered with bruises and usually I hurt a bit the next day too. I always took it as part of the territory, this is karate, this is how it goes, but I don't think the men hurt as much. Ryuuji almost never gets bruises, and come to think of it, Patrick never did either. I've actually read that men's skin is a lot less sensitive than women's so it doesn't hurt them as much.
I guess my point, if there is one, is that.......... ok, maybe I don't really have a point. I'm just scared, I guess.
Speaking of hurt, here's the aforementioned Tsukamoto Norichika-senshu beating ass at last year's Shinkyokushin Karate World Cup. Victory by ippon in like two seconds. AHHHHHH
Remember Ishii-senshu? She's the strongest schlady at our dojo and she was going to fight in Zen-Nihon, but her knee got busted doing kumite against guys and now she can't walk. :/ Sensei kinda pulled me aside and told me the story and told me to be careful, cos he knew about how I busted my wrist at Honbu and how I'm always fighting guys.
At the time I didn't really think much of it. The only other fighter chick that I train with with any regularity is Satomi, and every now and again I get to mix it up with Muraki too. That's it. Everyone else is a dude. So I don't really have any choice, do I?
But after a long kumite session I always hurt. I always come home covered with bruises and usually I hurt a bit the next day too. I always took it as part of the territory, this is karate, this is how it goes, but I don't think the men hurt as much. Ryuuji almost never gets bruises, and come to think of it, Patrick never did either. I've actually read that men's skin is a lot less sensitive than women's so it doesn't hurt them as much.
I guess my point, if there is one, is that.......... ok, maybe I don't really have a point. I'm just scared, I guess.
Speaking of hurt, here's the aforementioned Tsukamoto Norichika-senshu beating ass at last year's Shinkyokushin Karate World Cup. Victory by ippon in like two seconds. AHHHHHH