Injured myself a bit yesterday. Let me clarify. A bit more than usual. A bit more than all martial artists who have been in it for some time have to deal with on a regular basis. Probably anybody who does any kind of more vigorous activity.
It was my mistake. We were playing rather rough, trying to get closer to reality. Went down on the ground with one training partner and tried to pull off a proper arm bar. One of my legs was stuck underneath and as I tried to pull it out my partner rolled towards it. Heard and felt two nasty pops in my hip and quite a bit of pain in the frontal muscles. Iliacus to be exact. Pretty much couldn’t move that knée towards my chest for a while, but it got better and today I’m testing what I can do and stretching. Obviously there has been a lot of ice and heat involved in between. Naproxen.
Perfect 20/20 hindsight, I should have just sat up and smashed my training partner’s face with a hammer fist, or turned a bit to my side and completed the arm bar differently. Certainly either one of those is what I would want do on the street. Not take the time to try for a perfect set up: both legs over the body and face to do the arm bar.
Kind of points towards the inevitability of these things happening. Even training somewhat correctly. There are going to be mistakes made and people moving in different directions or further then the partner anticipated and crack, boom, shit happens.
Be careful. Approach reality slowly and with complete mindfulness. Then at least when the inevitable happens you had your wits about you and can learn from the experience. Instead of just being injured and not knowing why.