Comments | revena: Another in The Long List of Really Stupid Accidents

revena

Another in The Long List of Really Stupid Accidents

Sep 30, 2006 16:06

So, to recap - when I was fifteen, I got hit in the face with a piece of a board that I was holding for Master Martin (who wasn't a Master then) to break. The board broke into three parts, two of which stayed in my hands. The third struck just above my right eye, splitting the skin to the skull. I bled a lot, and had a little bit of plastic ( Read more... )

illness_and_injury, chayon_ryu

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shiv5468 September 30 2006, 23:49:09 UTC

Perhaps the shorter train on the wedding dress might be more sensible then.

revena September 30 2006, 23:57:08 UTC

Heee! That made me laugh loud enough that Mom called out from the other room to ask what's so funny.

blkchrrybard October 1 2006, 01:09:47 UTC

poor you....so far I have only had a couple pulled groins, jammed knuckles, and swollen eyes out of Chayon-Ryu. Until this week when I banged my knee up when I stupidly stubbed my toes and slipped off the mat after a perfect Akido roll...GAH!!!
It's all bruised up.

I did get punched in the nose one semester at the junior college when an orange belt decided it'd be fun to face punch me when I was distracted by another student asking me a question during free sparring...that was a load of laughs, but it didn't bleed or even swell.

revena October 1 2006, 06:04:30 UTC

Ugh, the bloodless nose punch is the worst. All the pain, and none of the fun of blood or bruising to show off to an appreciative audience.

anonymous October 1 2006, 01:29:23 UTC

Still, the fact that you call them stupid injuries, and not horrifying, painful, life-threatening, air-blocking and mobility-restricting injuries attests to your toughness.
You go!

jasminehammer October 1 2006, 01:32:26 UTC

Grr...I wasn't logged in on that, and I can't figure out how to change it.
Live Journal, you still flummox me sometimes.

revena October 1 2006, 06:05:24 UTC

Accidentally commenting anonymously is always a pain in the butt.

And yeah, I guess I'm pretty hardcore... ;-)

missmiah October 1 2006, 02:47:33 UTC

A few years ago, my brother-in-law (to be at that point) was testing at my parents' martial arts studio and went to break a board with a kick and missed, breaking the nose of the poor instructor who had been holding the board and not paying enough attention. The man with the broken nose couldn't stop laughing, my BIL was extremely sorry and embarrassed, and my father had something to bring up at family gatherings for the next few years.

revena October 1 2006, 06:15:45 UTC

Hah! That's right up there with my board mishap.

I once managed to flying side-kick my instructor in the groin when he was holding a board for me. He grunted and told me to aim better.

pats_quinade October 2 2006, 17:17:46 UTC

I have a small scar on the top of my foot that I somehow managed to give myself with a steel whip. It's about the dumbest injury ever.

Well, that and the tiny nunchuck-scar over my eyebrow. But that's just an argument against the 'chucks.

revena October 2 2006, 17:22:20 UTC

My fiance (almost typed boyfriend!) might win at stupid/weird foot injuries, really. He has a scar on his ankle from a time when he accidentally sheathed a sword in his foot, and I had to drag him in for stitches once when he split open the bottom of his foot by stepping on a pile of lorica segmentata that he had left on the floor.

Remember, kids - always hang your arms and armor up somewhere safe!

So how did the steel whip injury happen? An accident of aim?

pats_quinade October 2 2006, 17:38:15 UTC

Nope -- my accidents of aim have never scarred (though once, when the whip kicked back at my face, I'd swear I went into bullet-time to sidestep the thing, leaving a long graze along my neck). This was just plain ol' clumsiness. In between strikes, I do a little twirl with the whip dangling at my side, to get it aligned properly so that I know what it's gonna do when I move. And through some incredible mischance, doing the little twirl caused the point to arc up and the puncture the top of my foot.

Most embarrassing and difficult-to-explain injury I'd had in awhile.

(Also note: I don't do tournament-cool whip katas. I know some spins, but I generally use it along the "lash out to hit, then tangle/choke with it" lines -- more practical than pretty. I still think it looks cool, though.)

revena October 2 2006, 18:01:51 UTC

That you use a steel whip at all seems pretty darn cool, to me. The only weapon we really train with in ChaYon Ryu is the six-foot staff, so pretty much all weapons forms strike me as exotic.