My classmate during randori failed a drop osoto gari right as I landed from a hop and planting my foot hard. Somehow this caused my tibia/fibula to POP!
Everybody in the dojo thought I just landed really hard until they saw how wrong my leg looked.
Anyway, I’m recovering and will be filing an insurance claim with USJA.
Update: I’m healing quickly.
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Aw man that is messed up looking. Hope you get better soon.
Huh, we always called it “sweeping the leg,” or “judo throw,” but I was in MMA/ kickboxing. TIL. Hope you recover well.
I like that there’s one particular throw that gets called the “judo throw”.
I broke my tibia in a freak volleyball accident in Thailand last summer, it sucked really bad. Took about a year but now it feels like nothing ever happened, so hang in there.
Tip: avoid ibuprofen as it apparently slows the bone healing process
Sometimes our meat sacks just fail, I guess.
I had to look up the ibuprofen thing. It seems the issue is NSAIDs more broadly, which is a shame cuz this crap hurts.