The day before the test
Well, I’ll be starting the promotion exam around 24 hours from now. Tuesday night was teaching; I warmed up with the class and threw some kicks and punches, and did a few forms after class. Weds night was Hapkido, followed by some individual forms work. Today is a day off, other than the essays I’m still finishing up, and I’ll do a little bit of stretching as well.
Just to irk me, my back has decided to act up. My low/mid back right along the left side of my spine periodically locks up on me. I think it is a remnant of dislocating a rib a couple years back and not getting it back in place for a month and a half. I may have twisted a little oddly this past Saturday, and it hasn’t loosened up on its own yet. Wife of State has used her elbow a couple of times to help break things up. It is just a nuisance injury, but it does affect how well I can do twisting kicks.
Oh, well. I’m always going to have some sort of nagging pains. Right now in addition to my back, I have a tweaked wrist, Osgood-Schlatter’s condition in my left knee, an incompletely healed shoulder, a toe that periodically pains me, and a callous on the bottom of another toe that might rip and start bleeding. These are just the normal things that end up bugging me, and despite that, I’m feeling as healthy as I’ve been at any point over the last two years. I think that shows how my last two years have gone…
You know, I think everyone has those nagging or occasionally recurring pains/general physical wonkiness after training long enough. I occasionally get the odd twinge in my ankles (too many leg locks when I was younger, I think) and occasionally my lower back goes out of whack (perils of always getting paired up with the giants on the mat, I deduce).
But good luck on the exam!
Good luck with your test tomorrow.