Boy that was dumb... training injuries...

[Lupin1]

This wasn't a training injury, but I've got a "boy that was dumb". Last week I punched my kitchen table with more of a hammerfist style blow (more of a "slam your fist on the table", but with the strength of a punch) and nearly broke my hand. I still think I may have a boxers fracture, but there's no swelling and it only hurts right below the knuckle of my pinky finger if I touch it or hit something. Dumb.

That sounds familiar...

I'm sure we've all long since learned how to make a fist, and how to hit with the first two knuckles. Well, last week I was driving my gf to work and we got into a fight. Rather than take my anger out on her, I did basically the same thing. Hit the two weak knuckles on the horn button on my steering wheel.

I have the dubious benefit of prior stupidity, so it didn't do any real damage to me or the truck. She on the other hand, did the same thing several months prior, and her hand was sore for weeks.

Haha. Yeah. Mine does't hurt at all anymore, but it is freaking me out a bit. If I push on the knuckle, something moves four or five times in little "clicks". It doesn't hurt at all, and I think if it were broken it would hurt, but it's still a little freaky to feel it move like that.

[Daisho]

man, I feel pretty lucky to never have had any real injury. But I'm notoriously bad at overtraining, or coming back from little injuries too early, and having them linger forever.

honestly i think i would've passed out if i saw that much skin removed from my lower back.

[SaiFightsMS]

Had to have been the time I broke my finger practicing crescent kicks into my open palm during kata practice.

[twistkick kid]

I was practising in an empty room while away at school this past semester while I had a patch over my right eye (due to a serious issue with light sensitivity). Choong Moo requires a 360 double knife hand block, and I wasn't thinking that executing it would be an issue... I tried it and 360'd myself into the wall and smashed my left pinky.

lack of spatial awareness is sucky

[Rateh]

I've only broken one bone while training, a fluke accident.

I was waiting for my class to start, and a couple of red belt boys, maybe 11 years old, 75lbs when wet, were practicing their knife defense. They were having trouble and asked me for help. So I demonstrated the motions, which include a throw at the end, several times, while explaining them. Somehow or other I managed to throw the boy so that he landed on my pinky toe on each throw. It hurt but I didn't think much of it because we were training on mats and he was quite small.

A couple of weeks later I went to the doctor with a problem with my foot, unrelated. He x-rayed my foot, and found that my pinky toe had been broken two weeks prior! Apparently I have some condition where the last two joints of my pinky toes are fused together at a bit of an upward angle, so that just the pressure of him falling on it caused it to snap at the fused joint.

Who knew a little kid falling on my foot could break my toe :S

[twistkick kid]

My right pinky has been dislocated... again.

IT didn't hurt before I went to class last night. Now it's sticking off at an unnatural angle and will not pop back into its proper place unless I put it there myself! YOWCH

The scary part- I don't know how it dislocated... unless I punched the wall in my sleep

[GeoGiant]

I hurt myself AGAIN and thought I'd share.

Last few months I've really worked on conditioning and tracking what I'm eating. Well, push-ups have always been tough for me so I decided I was going to do push-ups everyday until I could do 100 without stopping. When I started it took me 5 sets to get to 100. After a several weeks I was getting close to knocking out 100 with 2 sets. My first set was 55 to 65, then 45 sec rest and I'd knockout the rest and continue if possible after 100. It happened last week... sore elbow. It looks like I aggravated a tendon in my elbow, sigh.

[wayneshin]

Not so much duorng training but I think I can beat all for stupidity. This was about 25 years ago and just got home after a particularly torrid session.

Thought a hot bath would be just the thing. (Yes I know now - cold - but this was the 80's)

Filled my bath up with hot water... still not hot enough. Boiled the kettle and added that... getting better. another kettle load would be good but by know I was getting impatient.

So I grabbed the kettle.. sit it on the SIDE OF THE BATH and hop in. The kettle boils.. I lean over and switch it off then knock it off the side of the bath and into the water with boiling water spilling all down my leg and burning me quite badly.

Pretty painful but all I could think was what if I had knocked it in the bath BEFORE I TURNED IT OFF.

[GeoGiant]

Not so much duorng training but I think I can beat all for stupidity. This was about 25 years ago and just got home after a particularly torrid session.

Thought a hot bath would be just the thing. (Yes I know now - cold - but this was the 80's)

Filled my bath up with hot water... still not hot enough. Boiled the kettle and added that... getting better. another kettle load would be good but by know I was getting impatient.

So I grabbed the kettle.. sit it on the SIDE OF THE BATH and hop in. The kettle boils.. I lean over and switch it off then knock it off the side of the bath and into the water with boiling water spilling all down my leg and burning me quite badly.

Pretty painful but all I could think was what if I had knocked it in the bath BEFORE I TURNED IT OFF.

Ouch!!! That is all i can say.... ouch!!!

[Spodo Komodo]

I used to have a habit of putting my tongue between my teeth while concentrating hard. That was until I punched myself in the chin learning a new Karate kata and biting through my tongue. I didn't know I had done it until someone behind me remarked about the blood on the floor.

When I trained in Iaido I managed to slip on sweaty feet while drawing my sword and cut into the web between thumb and first finger on my left hand. Not unusual for an Iaidoka you might think until I tell you I was using a bokken at the time. A sliver of wood had broken off the tip during a two-person drill leaving it about as sharp as a butter knife.

Practicing forward rolls in an Aikido class I went off to one side and rolled off the mat, emerging from the roll head-first into the doorframe resulting in a bloody scalp and concussion.

I should probably stick to plastic round-nosed safety scissors...