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Old 12-18-2008, 01:43 AM   #24
Håkan Hagström
Dojo: Seishinkai Ekenäs
Location: Ekenäs
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Re: How do you react to pain in class?

For me it depends on the type of pain. I haven't trained for so long, so I haven't experienced anything really bad yet. If I fall hard or have a sore muscle I might go "ouch" or something, but then there's arthritic pain...

It's probably pretty stupid of me, but I haven't told anyone in class about me having arthritis. I'm afraid that they might start going easy on me, or avoid me as a training partner because they are afraid of hurting me. My doctor told me that the arthritis doesn't increase the risk of my joints getting hurt from exercise even if they hurt like heck. It's just pain, nothing more, he tells me. So I try to not show that it hurts. Just last class we started training nikkyo, and nage was telling me that I need to relax my arm when he's performing the technique, but it was very hard to do. So I guess that's how I react to arthritic pain; by tensing up. I guess I'll try to take a pill before next class...
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