Ever been hit in the throat in sparring/training?

[GaryMo]

No, I have never had that happen. It does not sound like something I'll add to my to-do list, either. I hope everything is ok for you.

Nine days since it happened and it's starting to get better. My voice is around 95% back though still have that sore throat feeling when swallowing. Still, it's better by the day. My windpipe is still very sensitive when putting anything other than very light pressure on it. I think that'll be a few weeks before that's improved.

Will try and go back next week if my ribs will allow though no contact and taking it easy will be in order!

[Snowbat]

The most painful thing I ever experienced was burning something off my skin with liquid nitrogen when I was a kid.

But I digress.

I've never suffered one to the throat because I have the habit to keep my arms raised close to my head all the time. But I've suffered a blow to the chestbone once... and that cut me off air supply for a few seconds too.

[evergrey]

Wind got knocked out of you, eh? That's scary, Snowbat, especially the first time it happens, heh! Happened to me the first time I sparred at my dojo, lol!

[Snowbat]

Wind got knocked out of you, eh? That's scary, Snowbat, especially the first time it happens, heh! Happened to me the first time I sparred at my dojo, lol!

Yeah it's pretty scary. My sensei is this huge grizzly bear of a guy and back then, I was skinny.

So you can imagine the effect of his fist on my poor scrawny chest. I was choking. He had to stand behind me, grab my arms and spread them to break up my automatic cramped closed position.

Now that I think of it, it's pretty crazy that I never broke anything back then. I barely had muscle to protect my bones. Luckily now though, I gained some weight and I can take more of a bruising, but a direct blow to the chestbone is still freaky.

[sensei8]

In Shindokan, we attack the throat on a normal basis with varied techniques, so, one might imagine how often a technique is a little stiffer than normal during kumite. I've been hit so many times in the throat, I've become numb to the emotions surrounding it.

Still, it's not fun and it is scary but that's the reality of a Shindokan karateka.

[shadowspawn]

Never been hit in the throat though I have received a mae geri to the groin before. It really drives home the fact that you don't really need to swing your arm all the way around from the outside as hard as you can to hurt someone if you hit in the right places.

[Snowbat]

This reminds me of the one and only time where I've caused a lot of pain to my sensei, accidently of course.

See my sensei is a huge bear. Very friendly man, but he's a bulldozer. So one day I was doing kumite with him and the tactic is usualkly to just keep defenses up as good as you can and only hit when you think you see a little hole in his defense. Sometimes though, friendly as he is, he seems to hit a little too hard. So he aims this mawashi-geri towards my face. I see this huge leg coming up full speed and strength and I didn't have time to raise my arm since he mislead me the second before into doing gedan-barai.

This mawashi would have been straight to my jaw if I hadn't had the awesome reflex to turn my head and "absorb" the mawashi with my forehead.

The forehead bone is thick and very solid as you may know and even if I was a little dizzy from taking a hit there, my sensei was dancing on one foot because well... my forehead did hurt his other foot

But I digress.