My wrists are killing me!

[Underdog]

Hi, I'm just started training with sticks; I'm doing the warmups I've seen on the first dogbrothers tape.

Twirling the sticks,however is REALLY taxing my wrists and elbows; sometimes I wake up in the night for the pain.

Is this normal?

Bear in mind that I don't open my grip during twirling.

Thanks.

[SD fma]

Hi Underdog,

Yes, unfortunately, you may be gripping pretty hard...try to relax more in the wrist area-when I started, my forearms were getting tight...on occasion, they still do...over time, it gets easier-just stick with it!

Good Luck!

[jonhutton]

I think such a horrible pun as the one at the end of that post should be punishable by death!

[SD fma]

jonhutton,

no doubt it's a bad pun-I just noticed I did that!....I'll take the reprimand!

[mushinmaster]

DOG BROTHERS RULE!!!!!

[thekuntawman]

if you spent a lot of time stretching the wrist in different direction, that will help you last longer when you training with the sticks.

heres two exercises, one, hold your palms together like how some people pray, then lower your wrists to stretch the wrist and forarm. two, hold out your palm with the fingers up to the cieling, and the arm straight in from of you, and use the other hand to pull your fingers back. these two can make your foream more flexible, and you can do more before your wrist hurts.

[sykkelpumpe]

Just curious?? Are U doce pares??

[haumana2000]

Here is a simple fix. Use lighter sticks, and work your way up. If you are trying to start off with heavy sticks like the dog brothers, you actually run the risk of injuries. sooo start off light, and gradually work with heavier objects. An excercise that I teach my guys is to start at the hip with a stick, and simplly twirl upwards twice, and downwards twice over and over. It releases the fluid into the wrists pretty good.

Mabuhay!

[terry]

humana2000 is right if your problem is weak or inflexible wrists. There is another possibility: that of the reverberation shock causing problems when doing power hits. In that case, the conventional wisdom is actually to go to a bigger stick.

Terry

[haumana2000]

good point terry, as a beginner however, the problem is most likely the wrist not being used to supination flexion, or movement in all directions. So kind of hard to say without actually knowing what the situation is. I trained with rebar for a few years, and remember that I developed some pretty nasty tennis elbow type problems. very hard on the joints to do a witik strike with heavy objects.

[Corpsicle]

take up Kettlebell training
its awesome for grip and forarm strength

[crazyjoe380]

14 hours of porn straight will do that to you

[platinum_angel]

lol

[K Williams]

Stretch/warm-up your wrists and forearms before training. After training, do some more stretching exercises. You can also rub in some Dit Da Jow after training. For further grip/forearm strengthning, I use these different exercisers: Chinese exercise balls(the solid type), the GravityGripp ball, and Captains of Crush #1.

Dit Da Jow

http://www.briangray.com/liniment.htm

http://www.springwind.com/Templates/frmTemplateX.asp?SubFolderID=21&SearchYN=N

http://www.bluepoppy.com/acb/showprod.cfm?&DID=8&CATID=7&ObjectGroup_ID=20

Gravity Gripp

http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=2406&parent_category_rn=40000052

Captain of Crush

http://www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/

Chinese Baoding exercise balls

http://www.wle.com//store/t_miscellaneous.html#433