Naperville wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:58 pmI have this new neighbor, not sure where she is from, maybe Australia or UK based on the flag she flies in front of her home.James Y wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:32 amNaperville wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:13 amI like the dirty Judo! I'll let you know if I find a DVD. I looked on em3 videos and did not find it but it's all over YouTube. I'll download what I can because well, if a guy is trying to destroy me on the street I'll use it.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dirty+judo
The only time that I was injured was in Hapkido around 95. This other guy and I were tossing each other pretty hard onto the mat and the next thing I knew my right shoulder was killing me. I did not land properly. I never went to the doctor or had it looked at. At the time, I thought that the ball on my right arm rolled out of the shoulder socket, moving toward my chest. But I think it just damaged the socket a bit, maybe tore the surrounding cartilage a bit.
After all of these years the only part of my body that aches is my lower back(spinal stenosis) and my right shoulder. I also slightly tore the meniscus on my left knee while running in a Winter snow storm in Iowa with a weighted pack. It does not bother me. I don't ski, and I no longer run much. So I'm good to go!
It's always fun until the pain starts to really get to you after the initial injury. Pain can really be something else.
Right now the only thing keeping me from signing up for boxing or muay thai is money and being just a bit out of shape. Not sure whether or not I'll be able to walk as planned this Spring, but so far it's a go. One day at a time!
I think I already posted about the time a basic Judo falling technique saved me from a potentially serious injury. This happened in 2015. By then, I hadn't been in a Judo dojo since 1979...so 36 years. I was doing an early morning walk, and in the semi-darkness, my foot caught on a hard-to-see bump in the street, and then caught my other foot when I tried to catch my balance. I instinctively did a basic Judo front fall and landed perfectly. It happened really fast. I was unhurt, except for some cuts and scrapes on my palms (the road had some little rocks on it).
I was amazed that after all those years, that Judo breakfall technique came out so quickly and naturally when it was needed. You could call that a successful example of using Judo for self-defense against injury from a fall onto a paved road.
Jim
She's been here for maybe 5 years and we have owned our home since 82. She has her sump pump water flow directed into the county sewer. She is unincorporated so she gets away with it.
She complained about the water from our sump pump, and demanded we spend thousands of dollars for a french drain and additional upgrades. She came over and complained 3x about the water discharge and we are 100% legal, and that is the way we have directed our water since we moved in. Well, I listened to her once and ran the sump water discharge down the driveway and across the sidewalk(ILLEGAL - but I did it to appease her).
I was walking down the sidewalk 6 months later and it had slimy silt built up on the sidewalk making it slippery and I fell like a load of bricks on the concrete. I fell on my back and it was so fast. Luckily I tucked my chin to my chest or I would have split my head open.
The water is back in the backyard where it belongs.
I'm glad you weren't more badly hurt. A backwards fall is definitely worse than a forward fall.
That neighbor sounds like a real piece of work.
Jim