Training on Different Surfaces

[ashworth]

Trained on many different surfaces, mostly wood floor now, but did go through a period of a couple of years only training in a dojo with a matt floor, then going back to a wood floor, I found for the next 8ish months I was getting blisters, so either my feet went soft training on the matts, and jumping back on a harder floor was a surprise to them... Or I just got better at moving around on a floor to avoid blisters... 

Side note... when I first saw this topic I thought it was going to be about outside surfaces, uneven ground, slopes etc... Obviously most of our training carried out in the dojo is on nice level floors... from a self defence point of view we aren't always going to be attacked in our dojos... I used to do some training in the woods where the ground was particular uneven, practising the ability to adapt to the uneven surface and not too be caught too off-guard when moving around an uneven surface that can knock us off-balance.