So far I have managed to get my green belt relatively unscathed. The younger kids inspire me to train harder, and perhaps push myself harder than my body can handle.
Case in point, last night. Seeing that we're only a few weeks away from Nationals, everyone has kicked it in to high gear at class. Our Master's son is quite accomplished himself, and he too will be competing. Basically class last night was monkey see, monkey do. Whatever he did, we did.. or tried to do. Usually I get segregated out and work on my poomse while everyone else works on their sparring technique. I guess I lucked out and got to work on kicking too.
The combination we had to do was hammer/double. How it works is you kick one paddle twice with the same leg (hammer), and then the third kick (double) is done with the opposite leg. It requires you to turn your hips mid air to get the double in.. the paddle is held higher than the one for the hammer. Well silly me over did it, and I managed to twist my leg in a not so natural way. I felt a pop, but whatever popped out when right back in to place. I have never broken a single bone or pulled any muscles (other than the usual). My leg cramped up and I could barely make it off the mat. I sat with my support group and got some ice on it.. it began to feel better, but as soon as I put any weight on it, it felt like my knee was disjointed. Off to Urgent Care I went.
Long story short, I was extremely lucky that I didn't tear anything, or pop out my knee cap. The Doctor told me my injury is quite common among runners (hah!), and all it takes is some good stretching to get it feeling better again.
Today has been much better as I can sort of walk on my leg and not fear that my leg might give out. Guess I'm on the injured reserve list for the rest of this week :/
