Broken Leg

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YES........ i managed a lesson on the thai pads using my legs and it felt great, ok i only went through the motions kicking with my repaired leg but i didnt get any trouble with touching the pads & when i threw the kick with my good leg my repaired leg seemed to twist ok when i kicked at about 5-10% power (it's enough).
i also managed 48 full free standing squats at the end of lesson.

cant wait to slowlly build up the power!!!!

[Thai Bri]

I bet you'll soon be kicking like a mule.

After all, you do smell like one.

[kh_s]

All of the sudden, looking at those pics lost my interests in Thai Boxing. Whats next ? Well I think I go kali study some kali I guess. Damn man, what was your reaction like ? Did you cry ? Cause I know I would off, RoFl.

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kh_s
thanx mate......pain = no, not at the time but i was told that the shock & adrenaline stopped this from happening but when i was stretchered of it started to niggle a bit & in the ambulance when it was cornering, but the real pain came when i was put into traction, anbody not knowing what this is i'll explain:
they lie you down while they tell you to suck on gas then they pull on the leg to straighten it (you now scream a LOT) & they apply plaster after.

it was plastered on saturday night, operated on sunday morning & standing on it (with crutches) on monday.

on a slightly sick note:
ANYBODY WHO WANTS THE CLIP OF ME BREAKING MY LEG IN ALL IT'S WOBBLY GLORY THEN EMAIL ME & I'LL DO MY BEST TO GET THE CLIP TO YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

did you get your's bri-thai?

fthaimike@hotmail.com
fthaimike@aol.com

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Here are some clips from 1 of the video's:

(the fight was 10 second's long!!!!!)

first clip is of us both jabbing at each other & both getting caught!!!

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the second is of me defending against a head kick which followed my teep against my opponent.

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and the last clip is of of the kick i threw which broke my fibia & tibia (pity about the camera angle), but i have a second video coming to me from another angle.

[osopardo]

My sympathies,

I found this forum because I was specifically looking for info re: broken bones and martial arts training, especially striking arts.
My web search yielded your post.

I'm 51 years old and five months ago I slipped on a wet grassy hill and broke every bone in my left ankle except for one. Went through surgery (a total of 11 screws and one plate, which are in permanently), rehab therapy every day, etc.

Stopped training, ate a lot of "comfort food", and gained about 15 lbs. of fat.

The ankle still aches all the time, gets swollen if I don't pamper it and I really miss training. I'm afraid to kick the heavy bag with the injured leg and I can't really pivot on it to kick with the other one the way I used to.

Seeing your posts, however, gives me hope for the future.

Thanx for sharing!

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osopardo

thanx mate, hope you recover ok, i did find that from 4 mths onward doing 1 hr of light floor stretching helped me a lot later on but every injury is different, try massaging the leg lightlly later on to deaden any nerves around the scars (mine is very tinglly around where my lower screws were removed after 6 mths - which was for ankle freedom) & maybe try what i did after 11 mths and start wearing daps to help with a little impact when you walk instead of kicking although i do practice kickboxing flicky style kicks with my bad leg to loosen it up.

you may find that your muscles will shrink a little depending on what movement you have left but this looseness may help in the stretching which is very important as the tendon's & bits will be very tight after the operations.

dont stay idle but dont overdo it either, finding the balance is the hardest, try extra exercises that dont use weight on your legs to keep your fitness like situp crunchies or adapted pressups, after experimentation you'll find plenty of exercises to do until your leg has strengthened at which point you can try maybe a few free standing squats to asses yourself (i could only do 1 or 2 for ages but now i can do 50-60).

on a good note i had my first reasonable session last night on the thai pads with which i kicked lightish with the bad leg but built up the power with my good leg (now that i can twist on my bad leg) until my mates said i was "kicking like a muel the way i used too" which was very uplifting.

all the best.

[osopardo]

on a good note i had my first reasonable session last night on the thai pads with which i kicked lightish with the bad leg but built up the power with my good leg (now that i can twist on my bad leg)

Excellent! That's what I meant by "hope for the future". You seem to be well on your way to recovery. Keep up the good work!

For my part, I started about two weeks ago doing pretty much the sort of things you recommend; light massage, exercises that don't involve the injured leg like sit-ups, one-legged press-ups, stretching, upper body weight training (mostly on the bench), etc.

Doing what I can, but still... I miss my footwork! I miss being able to dance in, jab, shuffle out of range, pivot, double-step in, shift weight, spinning back kick... Oh well, patience, patience. Time wounds all heels!

[BadgerFu57]

Easy Fight

Instead of fighting Muay Thai guys go pick a fight with a national Tae Kwon Do team or something. Offer to be handcuffed and blindfolded while you do it. You should be able to knockout most of them.

Anyone brave enough to go 7 rounds in a Muay Thai ring could demolish a TKD practicioner in 7 seconds.

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BadgerFu57

i take it you dont class tkd as a skill?

[BadgerFu57]

Well Retired....

I've done my research. And I've taken some TKD. It's horribly impractical.

The guy that made it was never in street fights. It was never "battle-tested." Muay Thai was made for the battlefields 3000 years ago. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was made for the streets. Tae Kwon Do was made because General Choi got upset when some wrestler threatened to beat him up and so he took some karate lessons and mixed in Korean kicks. He would kick stuff that didn't kick back. Never fought though. Point sparring doesn't count.

That's at least the history of TKD as presented by the ITF.

TKD kicks may be pretty and fast, but they are downright impractical. In the street you'd be likely to fall down by yourself. I know I have gotten so much power/momentum on high kicks that I have taken myself off the ground. And fell on my bum. Embarrassing. But it's near impossible to generate good power with TKD kicks, and if you do generate power they are slow developing or highly telegraphed. I don't know. I am no expert. Just my 2 cents.

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Well i was having a pretty good week training but as usual things seem to catch up with you, it started off with a tight neck then my legs started cramping up & to finish it off i got one of those nasty blisters on my big toe which was ripped off before i noticed it.

time for a few days off i think.

[osopardo]

What's worse than an injured fighter trying to get back into fighting form?

An injured fighter with time on his hands and a digital camera.