It was a more subdued feeling in class last night. We focused more on body conditioning than striking the bags. I enjoy being beaten up from time to time, but without my usual training partner it does feel like I am getting a bit soft so the extra bit of beating made the class more exciting for me.
In one of the demonstrations we suffered an injury unfortunately, the student didn’t know how to brake fall. It looked pretty bad from my angle and I was sure he injured his shoulder, but at the end of the night he complained from pain in his ribs which might put him out of training for a while if he fractured a rib or worse broke one.
This brought the question to mind, when should students be taught how to break fall and roll? These techniques are often taken for granted with the more senior students and only when something like this happens do we react in shock because the student didn’t know when to break fall.
A possible solution to this could be to initiate a pre entry grading for anyone who sign up. We might as well assign the job of teaching new recruits how to perform these basic movements to the dojo sempai and grade the student right there and then after he signed the indemnity form, it won’t take longer than 10 minutes to test a student for a break fall and forward roll and it could prevent something like this happening to often in the future.
I ended up doing a bit of key-ring and knife work in the latter part of the class, but I felt a bit lonely without a dedicated partner. I plan on doing a bit of training over the weekend to sharpen my skills with the two weapons against the bag as well as lots of push-ups.
Embrace the shadows.
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