Silly injuries while training

Sm0ke

So as i have just given myself the unofficial title of "heavy bag retard" I taught I would ask people what injuries they have sustained in training thru their own fault, or any funny stories of minor injuries caused!

So i started some mixed martial arts training yesterday and we were working the heavy bag with knees strikes etc. all fine, then nubbins here decides sure it wud be a laugh to throw a low blow shot at said heavy bag. Sure what could be funnier than low blowing a heavy bag? well, everything! I hit itand caught it at my wrist, resulting in me giving myself a rather sharp tug at the elbow! exactly like an armbar. It turned out to be funny simply cause of the abuse! i am wrapped up now and unable to bend it without pain!

ahhh lesson learned, I wont ever act the the clown again in training!

(first time training btw)

I separted my shoulder trying to burst a ballon with a break fall a few years ago.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Nothing really funny, or spectacular.

But during a Judo demo a few months back I broke a rib, in front of a whole load of school children too - big Marto was carried off the mat in agony

I've been choked out more than once too I hate tapping to a choke, silly I know but I'm a pig headed fvcker.

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dlofnep

I popped my ankle, destroying my ligaments and tendon dancing around like an idiot in BJJ. I then popped it again 2 weeks later, drunk stepping off a curb. Sorest year of my life!

angeldance

I broke my arm doing a jump spinning hook kick, on a freshly polished wooden floor. Another time put myself in for a pile of sparring and competitions and ended up with post concussion and getting a ct scan.

Roper

A year or so ago I put myself out of a competition kicking a small sponge ball and catching my toe on the mat during a warm up, breaking it.

dave80

broke my little toe kicking someone in the elbow, well it wasnt like i was tryin to kick him there, first day back training after toe injury i broke my wrist pretty bad!

westcoastshuri

Nunchuck vs Groin ...Nunchuk won


Dar

ginoginelli

Broke a few toes practicing kicks a little too close to the fireplace in my living room before.. Torn ligaments in my hand and wrist, from hitting those damn punching machines in the arcades. 5 years later and a load of phsyio, it still gives me trouble..:(

Going throught bear hugs and the like in KM class and my mate who is a little stocky bloke bear hugged me and fractured a rib in my left side. I couldn't even pull out the combo I was meant to because he had me gripped so hard. Small guy, with huge arms and big chest. You know the type.

p to the e

after working the bag for five 2 min rounds i tried to top it off with some light dumbell curls. when i finished i tried to put them back on the rack and somehow caught my little finger between the weight and the rack taking a chunk out of it. couldn't move it for weeks!

beGood

A girl in my old Judo club dislocated an elbow playing leap-frog during the warm-up.

I recently heard of another Judoka who had an ankle in a cast but decided to try some non-contact training. While practicing uchi-mata by himself he tore a muscle in his backside due to the extra weight at the end of his leg. The doctor was very puzzled when he was presented with the secondary injury!

MaeveD

Not really a 'silly' injury but... my brother dislocated my elbow with his pelvis during a BJJ class

getting it put back in place was awful!

dudara

Silly injury - broken rib from walking into a sidekick

Unfortunate injury - tearing my hamstring and medial ligament in my left knee when landing from a flying sidekick

No more sparring injury - detached retina (successfully repaired - but contact sports no longer an option)

Nothingcompares

and they call TKD lightcontact...

dudara

In fairness, only the cracked was due to excessive contact.

The detached retina probably started as a small fissure which expanded over the course of a month or so, until I realised that there was something wrong. It's hard to point to any particular contact as being the cause of it. I don't remember getting any hard blows to the head around that time. Apparently it doesn't have be really blunt trauma for this to occur.

Word of caution to MA practitioners - regular eye tests might not be a bad thing.