Update:

My ankle is still not right. It's slightly swollen still and hurts when I move it certain ways. I am able to walk on it, but I think that this might have prevented it from healing properly. Either that, or the doctor misdiagnosed it and I've done something worse (torn ligament or something of that nature) in which case, I'm screwed more than likely.

Because of this injury, I didn't train for almost a month. The first time I went back was this past Wednesday, and even then I didn't do too much. I pushed it a little further on Thursday, which caused me to have to sit out for about a quarter of the class & help the others.

Then, there was Saturday. I shouldn't have been training at all on a still injured ankle. However, when the visiting master says (and I quote) "I want to see what you've got", there's no way I'm taking that as anything but a challenge. So, I dressed out, warmed up and proceeded to "test" with all the other candidates for about 2.5 hours. Big mistake. While I don't think I injured my ankle even more, I can definitely feel the side effects of training so hard after an entire month off. I've definitely learned my lesson and will be staying off of it as much as possible until it is healed and I get a clean bill of health. Then, it's game time, which hopefully means back to the gym at least 4 to 5 days a week.

Until then, I will have a rather uneventful blog. My apologies. :(

Take care! :)

Ankle update

So, if you've been bored enough to actually read this, you've realized that about a week and a half ago now I sprained my ankle pretty badly, which has rendered me unable to train or pretty much do anything besides walk.

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Unfortunately, while it has gotten better, it still isn't nearly as healed as it needs to be for me to get back on the mat yet. :( Whenever I rotate my ankle I can still feel some pain down the side, so for now I have decided to keep from training still. As much as it kills me not to, I know it is for the best to stay away from anything that could injure it further and therefore put me out of commission for even longer.

Let's hope that this thing heals up soon. I'm sick of missing out on awesome training sessions!!!

Potentially hurt my ankle. Cool.

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Really? All I did was a round house kick on the heavy bag and then somehow ended up rolling my left ankle on my standing foot. Pretty early in my training session, too. Which of course meant that I wasn't able to continue because I didn't want to injure it even more. Time to ice up I guess.

UPDATE: If it wasn't sprained before then it surely is now :( Rolling it twice in one day isn't very helpful, I guess. Especially when you're wearing shoes with a slight heel, you step off a curb to cross the street, onto something underfoot the wrong way and completely turn it in. Ugh. Wonderful.

MIA yet again. lol

Training has been interesting over the past week. I've been sparring a lot more and it's been a battle the entire time. On one hand I love sparring. There's no way to know what the other person is thinking or what they are going to do next. You constantly have to be on your toes and ready for absolutely anything that may happen. And the thrill of the unknown is one that I will never get tired of. Plus it is a great stress reliever, in my opinion, probably the best way. On the other hand (being a girl) coming home with bruises down your legs and arms kind of sucks because the only way to cover them up is by wearing jeans, which is brutal during the summer, especially in Blacksburg. There's also the fact that I haven't properly trained in sparring in the past couple of years, so I'm pretty rusty which only leads to getting beat 9 times out of 10 (if we were to actually keep track). With the increased amount of sparring I have been doing lately though, I'm getting back into the groove. It's tough, but the challenge of getting back to sparring well is one that I accept wholeheartedly. :)