Battle Scars - Your worst Martial Arts injuries

[KarateKen]

Thankfully I have never suffered any major injury from training.  When I was in my first tournament, I was in TDK at the time, I took a kick to the face where I was seeing stars for a few days.  That was probably a concussion though I was never treated for it.  Other than that, no injuries, so I consider myself fortunate.  I've never seen anyone get really injured in class, but in tournaments I've seen people get knocked out and carried out to an ambulance.  There was a TKD tournament I was coaching in where a student turned, hit the opponent in the face with an elbow, breaking his nose, and blood flooded out all over his white Gi and onto the mats.  His nose was smashed, the bloodiest injury I have seen first hand.  Not a match I was coaching, but still. 

[Zaine]

Likewise, I have never suffered a serious injury from training. I have been very lucky. However, the worst injury I have received was during my black belt test. We were in the sparring portion and my sensei and I were doing Kyokushin style fighting. He got a really nice punch right to my sternum and I ended up with a contusion. I couldn't lift my arms above my shoulders without pain for a week! My sensei asked if we needed to stop after he had delivered the punch, but he also told me that if I stopped the test at any point that I would fail it so I kept on going. He told me later that if I had stopped at that point for a small break that I wouldn't have failed and apologized for hitting so hard. Mistakes happen! Still, I got my shodan and it's a good story so many years later.

[sensei8]

During my JBB training I accidentally stabbed myself in my right knee with one of my Kama’s.

How??

Moved my right foot forward instead of my left foot.