Doggy Bite

Well, I finally came back to Karate after about a four week break. Well, almost three week, for three of those weeks, I only managed to go to Karate once a week and last week I wasn’t able to go at all (had a gig). Well, today I finally came back.

What was odd is that in the beginning when we were warming up, I had a big headache one the sides of my head like there was too much pressure and I had to empty a little ballast (if you know what I mean). Well, after the warm-up, it slowly went away. About halfway through, it was fine.

We did a well rounded training today. Basics in the beginning, 5 step sparring after that and closing with Heian Godan. After we closed, Josh said that he was gonna go to a tournament and wanted some Kumite practice. So we all lined up in front of him and one at a time, we did a three combination attack. I got him a few times but the final one, I kicked, went in with a feint jodan to the head and was gonna snap a yakozuki to the chest. Well, we both kinda went in at the same time and as he smiled (while going in) my fist was in the wrong place so I went in to his mouth and got bitten. I mean he didn’t chomp down on my hand but my fist just ran into the sharp edges of his front teeth.

So that started bleeding but he was fine.

For the past two times I’ve missed Karate a few weeks, the first day I come back, something always goes wrong. Last time I came back, I forgot to make a tight fist and my thumb accidentally got kicked which hurt. It doesn’t hurt anymore but I still can’t flex it back as much as my other thumb.