Yoga is a fabulous discipline. It helps you shake anxiety but it can also injure you. I injured myself in yoga class one day, and this injury was a bad one. I dislocated my entire kneecap, which stayed bent, also in progress, fracturing a portion of my tibia in my knee. This is a shitty injury since I have spent two years trying to recover from a very stiff knee that my conscious mind keeps stiff. If I’m knocked out with anesthesia, it seems fine but my awakened mind keeps my knee stiff. This is a wacky problem I need a hypnotherapist to sort out.
You have to be wary of wrist injuries with downward facing dog, for example. https://aaptiv.com/magazine/common-yoga-injuries. Yoga can help me shove my anxiety deep into my brain. It is nowhere to be found. Yoga can cause lower back pain as well as knee injuries. Sometimes, to do a twist and not throw your back out, you have to be careful and do it slowly. Shoulders and elbows could also be injured by not doing a vines pose well. Yoga is not all great since I already have meniscus tears that could be aggravated. I’m naturally pigeon toed. What set off my entire injury was pivoting my foot the wrong way.
If you do not have a properly aligned pose, your hamstrings are screwed over. I did sprain my right thigh recently by having to bed over in order to clean up my house. Pressure on your neck can be caused by a shoulder stand, or headstand. Don’t do yoga if some position or another doesn’t feel good. Chair yoga is perfectly acceptable as a yoga form. Just be really careful with yoga in general because you do not want to be injured, take it from me, injuries suck.
To adequately escape any kind of grip, the key is to apply pressure to somebody’s thumb. If a person has you by the elbow, you press your arm against their thumb. If somebody is touching your butt inappropriately, you can use your thumb and index finger to grab their thumb, and remove it. Before somebody grabs your arm, it is best to use an elbow strike that pushes them away from you. In class, when people train, they do things like grab your gi but on the street, you have to be able to think on your feet.
Thinking on your feet means your brain has to think fast. It is not that hard. You can think on your feet in many other situations, besides martial arts. Elbow strikes are effective when somebody grabs you, an elbow strike to the shoulder, and to the stomach for example. Rarely does a victim ever need to punch someone in the face, although if worse comes to worse, punching someone in the face is necessary. Pushing someone out of the way with Chi involves the intake of three sharp breaths, inhaling, which then gives you the strength to push them. This is more or less how superstrength works.
I’ve studied both Kenpo at United Studios of Self Defense and Tae Kwon Do at the YMCA. Kenpo was about katas and tae kwon is mostly about kicks. I recall jumping up as high as I stand tall, which is four feet ten inches. If I wasn’t out with my knee injury, I’d be studying tae kwon do. Jumping up high is helpful when I need to get something off a high shelf which normally I can bend my knees for but at the San Jose State café I did need help getting my Gatorade. Thanks.
Kenpo is about a straight line attack. It means somebody attacks you full-frontal so that you can fight back directly to their face (https://blackbeltmag.com/arts/japanese-arts/10-kenpo-laws-every-martial-artist-should-know). In Kenpo you strike first, and think about grappling movements later. Kenpo is known for multiple strikes where you have to think about how to hit your opponent. Kenpo is all about hitting the nose, face, neck, stomach, groin and floating ribs. I did learn kenpo blocks in my old kenpo school though, which is why this article cited above is confusing me. I barely remember the kenpo I learned but in my tae kwon do class, I remember being told I was using a kenpo stance once. Taekwondo emphasizes jump kicks. In Kenpo I learned a spin kick for all my troubles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo.
I generally try to stay in martial arts class without thinking about getting an injury. But my current knee injury happened in yoga, not in martial arts class. It happened at the YMCA, two years ago. I do hope that the martial arts schools who eventually get wind of my blog can understand that I want to continue my pursuit of multiple martial arts studies. I have had a life- long interest in self-defense since my sophomore year of high school.
I was an extreme athlete in high school but didn’t get physical therapy to speak of until college. My athleticism lasted through junior college. At State, I’d swim. In San Francisco, even if it is an indoor pool, swimming was still rather difficult on my body since I’m sensitive to cold temperatures. I adapted to the city but there is a reason why I want to go to UCLA, simply because the weather is warmer than it’s San Franciscan counterpart. I wanted to be a football player despite my size and the fact that men run American football still.
Yes, I’m interested in football and other rough sports. I’m just rough like that. I wanted to try kickboxing when my knee dislocated and my tibia fractured. I wanted to get into MMA when my tibia blew. Hell, I mean I still want that but I need my knee back. Hell, I wanted to play football. That was my chosen sport. My family didn’t like it at all. But I’m still interested in women’s football if there is such a thing. I’d love to get into football if I could despite the risk.
I need to visit Grace Community Center, as well as Zephyr, all local mental health communities in town. I also have to see YWCA to get the word out. The shelter doubles as a community center as well, for people with disabilities and chronic illness who need a safe place to work remotely or to stay. I envision beds within cubicles or maybe partitions. We also need to set up Skype-enabled computers so we can keep in touch with other centers. In Los Angeles, I’d buy myself a mansion close to UCLA with a pool. I’d rather not maintain a lawn but instead, I would make it a desert landscape.
My non-profit needs a business plan first and foremost, which I have actually blown off working on lately. I need to finish this business plan. I haven’t gotten some of the deadlines because I’ve been busy cleaning the house since my family is coming back. I’m going to have to play catch up this entire week if I can help it. I may be at the library during those times just because I can focus better. I need to hurry up with my healing knee so that I can get more done with my life.
Just look at Lady Gaga discussing her anxiety and depression out in the open. I’m waiting for the same chance to do that about my schizophrenia. When a disabled person talks about their disability, they are trying to educate you, not ask you for pity. There is so much ignorance out there from people who do not understand at all, and they are the sorts of people that think blood pressure is the same thing as blood sugar. Some of those ignorant people just don’t have a basic high school biology education among other things.
When somebody discusses their pain, it means they need to be understood, not told, “Oh you want pity.” In high school, the person who did this to me pretty much got away with it, but I didn’t notice that she’d get depressed easily over little things and want attention for it. An old friend admitted this one once when I asked. I had totally forgotten this about my “you-want-pity-please-throw-out-your lunch,” I was brainwashed and obedient until my parents pointed out what she was doing, so I got mad at her in public while dumping her. Of course, this set off some Neanderthal high school boys by calling me a “lesbian” for being a girl and getting angry.
The Neanderthal who did this was proud of himself but I gave him shit. I go to great lengths to give people shit. A girl getting angry is not necessarily a bad thing. Women get angry because we have feelings, real feelings, and sometimes it is necessary to get pissed off. It is okay to express a full range of emotion. Some people seem to impose a “never get angry” rule to women because they don’t know any better, that women are human too and the equal to men, some of whom would not submit.
That is the worst thing you can do to a disabled person. I put people who want to pity me on ignore. Yes I infuse, because I have no insulin, yes I take medication. What part of “I bust my butt to be positive,” do you people not understand? I’m positive so that everybody feels good. It isn’t hard anymore, unlike how hard it was in high school because I was mistreated when I wasn’t positive and I couldn’t help it. I’m trying to be positive now because I’m really good at deflecting curiosity. My insulin pump is obvious to people on the street.
I’m doing a great job keeping my head above water. But yes, the thing is, I fractured my tibia and dislocated my kneecap at the gym two years ago. Apparently, there is no record that this ever happened. The thing is, pity is useless to disabled and chronically ill people. It is such a useless exercise. This is only because disabled people don’t need it or want it unless genuinely ill. To not help a sick person feel better is something sociopaths do, not normal people. It is rude to expect sick people to come to work. Or to spread your germs at an office.
iriavp 