Showing posts with label ankle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ankle. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Ironies Of life

Talking about preservation of the body, safe training methods, starting a new regimen to get stronger.

Oh man.
I was looking forward for a gym session last night, wanted to try a few things, yet still related to what I already know, so nothing crazy. Got there, warmed up, the nice was chilly, lot of breeze coming in from the huge warehouse door that protects the gym. Some drills, flow, I just wanted to get the blood pumping really.

After a got a good sweat is was flips time, a few side flips, fronts. Everything good and smooth, "god this is a good session" I remember thinking to myself.

Time came to try my new stuff, a simple standing side flip facing forward I just want to learn from when I do precision I can finish dismounting with style. So here I go, a few failed attempts, a bit short, a bit too much. Every try was better and better. So I decided to ry it off of the low parallel bars. After all, that is what I am training it for, so I can do it off of rails.

I set myself, check the mat for cushioning, felt good. Should I put another one? I decided not to, this mat is soft enough. I got on the bar, balance on it, trying to get comfy. Turn around facing my landing spot, got ready and here I go. Everything is good, maybe a little to out, rotation is going great, I am over rotating a bit, I touch down and I hear POP along with a very familiar type of pain. I get up, yell a couple cuss words and I sat down while I saw the next 6 months of my life playing like a fast forward movie, right in fron of my eyes.

Full rest for about month until I can manage to dedicate to upper body conditioning, ankle conditioning, small flow, and then after several months the great feeling of doing flips after I work on building up courage again.

All over agan, it hasnt even been over a year since last time I sprained my ankle.
Two times in one year, this is just bull crap.
The paper is coming to our next jam, way to rep, someone in a boot talking about how safe PK is.

Well, people say things happen for a reason, I hope this is a good one.

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