“My coaches and training partners all know I have a bum shoulder; they all know I’m scheduled for surgery soon and that I am ‘taking it easy’ and ‘not sparring as hard’ until then but that I want to train as much as I can. They treat my shoulder with whatever level of respect they have for me as a whole–the good ones gauging the level of pressure they can apply by the magnitude of my grimacing, the bad ones ‘accidentally’ attempting kimuras. I learn very quickly who I can train with and who to avoid, for though we are a good group of people, we are a highly competitive one.”In other words, so … Read the Full Article Here
Julie Kedzie: Anger, Injury and the Octagon
“My coaches and training partners all know I have a bum shoulder; they all know I’m scheduled for surgery soon and that I am ‘taking it easy’ and ‘not sparring as hard’ until then but that I want to train as much as I can. They treat my shoulder with whatever level of respect they have for me as a whole–the good ones gauging the level of pressure they can apply by the magnitude of my grimacing, the bad ones ‘accidentally’ attempting kimuras. I learn very quickly who I can train with and who to avoid, for though we are a good group of people, we are a highly competitive one.”In other words, so … Read the Full Article Here