2005 Workout #85: Retardation, thy name is Dalcher…

Well, it finally happened. Fourteen years and some odd months and I have finally hurt myself while doing basics.

Class started innocently enough with some makiwara training followed up by a setting change to the Judo room. We did some basics up and down the floor. Everything was moving along fine until we did roundhouse kick. One of my longstanding problems is with my guard… it tends to drop to the sides of my kicks when I’m trying to go hard.

It happened this time, only my snapback brought my heel crashing into my index finger and thumb of my right hand. It did the whole “move slowly then freeze up” thing that happens when you get a pretty good crack on a digit, and by the time yesterday was over it had swollen up to a pretty good size.

I didn’t let that stop me from doing a few kata and then some sparring drills with . We did a roundkick drill that we saw in Sensei Kagawa’s video and I found that I’m not terrible at it, so I may work on it some more in coming months. Saturday shaped up to be a pretty busy day, so Dad and I left karate around 9:30 so we could get some other stuff accomplished. The other stuff will be detailed later, now I have to run to a Father’s Day gathering!