Sunday, April 3, 2011

My pain and injury

hi,

I like seeing that my blog has got some visitors.

I haven't written for some time, perhaps because I haven't trained for 4 or 5 weeks, as my left knee was hurting. Then I watched some videos about parkour and the desire to move returned immediately. I just wanted to move! (You must know, that there has been pain in my right elbow for about 1,5 years.) So there has evolved a certain process in my life:

I start doing parkour and then I would do it for some weeks, then it would become to painful and at least I would do again a big break within some weeks or even months.

Eventually I decided to bring regularity in my training again, in other words I conclude to train twice a week. Not to much so my pain shouldn't get to big.

First training after many weeks on tuesday was such a great thing, I just enjoyed the nice weather and went to some favourite spots, so I felt awesome, since a long time, again. Nevertheless, my pain returned, and I was a bit depressed.

However, the second training, yesterday, I decided to visit a new spot, so I cycled there. The weather was nice again. I started stretching, and whilst it I wanted to do a speed vault on a rail. This was really thin, and not thinking about it further, I just did it. And then - BAM - I missed with my left hand the rail and have miserable landed on my left leg....

Now I am sitting in front of the PC again, can't train, nothing to do, as I can't do the things I have planed....

Now, however, I am thinking about what has happened there. I believe there are two issues.
  1. I didn't stretch my legs! That was a awkward mistake! So I only can advise all traceurs always to stretch first! There will be still enough time for parkour, don't worry.
  2. As not training for a long period of time, I think I lost the right feeling about my limits, what I can do and what is very, very tough for my body. I hope you can understand, what I mean. Many traceurs did a lot of risky things as starting with this sport. You know, today you go around, see the spot and remember that you did something crazy there. And you just can't believe, that you have done that crazy jump 2 years ago here. However, while training longer, you recognize your limits or you just see what could go wrong there. My failure was the strong desire to move, without thinking about other things, what could go wrong or where I could get hurt. Now, thinking back, this jump was so crazy, because this damned rail was only about some centimeters wide. And it was quite obviously that after such a long time without training I wasn't in my best condition...
Well, I hope I will learn something from that, hopefully you, too.

Michail