Kind of embarrasing question...

[tommarker]

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nevermind.

[theswarm]

for those of you who don't use shoes at their martial arts school

 

how do your big toes and balls of your feet look?

 

mine are always butchered

[psychospaz]

Hmm, my feet and toes are fine aesthetically and I can run on concrete barefoot normally due to conditioning of my feet.

[ninjanurse]

I take care of my feet after each class by scrubbing off the "yuck" and using a good moisturizer. This helps keep the callouses in check and keeps the heels from cracking. I have never had any problems with my feet (save a few broken toes ).

 

[GrrrArg]

I wouldn't be embarressed about an ingrown toenail in training, I dont what the pain is like cos i've never had one, however I have been known to leave trails of blood along the floor when doing Kata after having cut my foot on something whilst training. That was really sureal, but it showed me that I had the right floor pattern for the Kata I was learning

 

In my opinion most MA's are slightly wrong in the head so won't be bothered by funky toes or anything like that...

[granmasterchen]

trust me, do what you can, you may have a condition that limits you, yet do what you can and train what you can, there is no reason to push it off and train later, you have muscles that still work so train them, learn the skills build the speed, work hard

 

I had a metal spike go through my foot that has me on constant medication, I went from a top athlete to a bum while going through nemerous surgeries, just to find out that my problem was nerve related and i had a rare disease that made it permanent, the docs said that i would be in a bed and paralized and die with in the next 5 years,

 

well that has been over 3 yrs ago and i am active in martial arts once again and train alot, i am not in a hospital bed with a morphine drop and i am not paralized, why? the docs say that since i do martial arts i keep my muscles working and i take the pain, i will not just roll over and die, because i am a martial artist and i worked too hard to get where i am, as of now i am the only person with my illness not to be in a hospital bed, paralized or dead from my illness at my time range with this nerve disease, it may hurt but don't quit, push yourself and defy all that others say!