3/27/09 - Takedowns and injury

The takedowns class continues to be one of my favorite classes. But because of the sharkies (live drill) at the end of class it is also one of the more likely classes to get injured in; which happened to me on Friday.

So, class focused more on ground stuff today from the turtle. After our warmups and individual and partner drills our coach taught us "The Dump". It was taught to be a counter to a counter for a fireman carry. If you attempt a firemans carry and your opponent sprawls, you clamp down tight on their triceps, bring youroutside knee deep under you and fall over to that side. Your opponent just gets "dumped" over the top of you. During sharkies one of my partners hit this on me after I sprawled on a single leg attack, so it is very effective.

The next move taught was the "dope drag"....which i keep calling the "dummy drag" because I can't get the correct name stuck in my head. Anyway, this is from the turtle again with your opponent more square (or north south) to you. With your opponent have one arm across your neck and the other under your armpit (seat belt grip) you reach up and grab his triceps again with your opposite side hand (trapped arm). You step up with your leg to the side of your free arm and with one quick motion arm drag your opponent, escape your head and come out to his side.

So how did I obtain my new injury? Well during sharkies I managed to damage a ligament in my foot. It's on the top of my foot between my knuckle and ankle on my thumb ligament....Metacarcil or something I think. I am not really sure how it happened though. I can't remember if it was from taking a shot on someone or if it was when I was defending a shot. i think it was the latter but I am not certain. Either way, it didn't hurt that much during class. But throughout the middle of the night it got worse and by morning time I wasn't able to walk on it. I went to urgent care and waited 4 hours for them to do xrays to see if something was broken. They basically just told me to take motrin for the pain and wrote me a script for it. Today it is feeling significantly better and I am hoping that by the weekend I should be all healed up.

It's a new injury every week it seems. This time I have to be on the sidelines for a couple days. can't train through this one unfortunately. I can do some lifting though. I'll just have to see where my foot is on deadlift and squat day.