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Re: Help, My knee’s don’t like the exercise
quote scottppa:Hello, Don and everyone –New to this forum – found it after googling for Krav and knee injuries. I’ve only been in Krav Maga for a few months and my progress has been slow, but now it’s even more hampered – was warming up in KMFit class about 10 days ago and felt a “pop” in my left knee. Stupidly, I gutted it out and finished the class. Turns out I tore the medial cartilage in my left knee – I’m day 4 postop now. What’s frustrating is that I LOVE this – I’ve been out of class since the injury and I’m going CRAZY. I see my orthopedic surgeon in follow-up tomorrow, but I know it’s going to be a while until I can be back in class again. I don’t have a bag or pads at home – any suggestions on what I can do to keep working my Krav in the meantime? Should I let my instructor know? Don – good luck and take care of those knees! I’m glad it wasn’t a ligament or anything, but I’ll tell you — this is FRUSTRATING!
Scott, having returned to Krav after ACL replacement my recommendation is to NOT rush back. Krav is hell on the knees and you’ll want to make sure its really stable before you return full force. That said, you could always do very slow review of the different moves you’ve learned and shadow boxing is always good too – again, slow!!
– Kelly
Re: Are we being true to the system?
Totally OT to the post, but watching the video was slightly disturbing. There seemed to be a lot of flailing and winding up on the hammerfists. Also appeared none of the students were really bringing their guard up or keeping it up when attacking.
– Kelly
Re: Krav featured in the next Splinter Cell game
The new Splinter Cell looks bad ass. I can’t wait to get it!
Thanks for the link.
Re: No Krav for a bit ::cries::
Holy Cr@p, why didn’t y’all tell me it would hurt so much? Good grief! Surgery went well, I had it last Wednesday and I’m back to work today (mostly because of major cabin fever). When I had the MRI done, the doc thought I had about 10% of the ACL still attached, turns out I had none left attached – definitely good that I had surgery then. Anyways, just wanted to post an update. Thanks for all the well wishes and recommendations.
– Kelly
Re: No Krav for a bit ::cries::
quote CarpeCanis:If you don’t mind my asking, how’d you snap your ACL? What kind of graft will you be using?In my case, it was a front (left) leg round kick during sparing. I was tired, rushed the kick, and didn’t properly get up on the ball of my right foot. My shoe stuck to the mat and I pivoted around my right knee joint instead and, well, POP!
Graft-wise, the doctor recommended the hamstring auto-graft so that’s what I went with.
I’m think I’m doing the hamstring auto-graft as well. My injury originally happened playing baseball. Stole second and didn’t slide – foot caught on the base and I torqued my knee. It swelled up nicely and I got it checked out but it seemed ok. Next time it happened I was at practice shagging grounders, field was muddy, cleat stuck and my body continued towards first while my lower leg stayed planted. Again, some swelling but otherwise I was able to walk around. ::shrugs::
Krav just exacerbated things cuz my knee would occasionally buckle and put me out for a couple days but then I’d be right back in because there was no lingering pain. This time, there was lingering pain afterwards.
– Kelly
Re: No Krav for a bit ::cries::
quote CarpeCanis:Kelly,You have my sypathies. I’m just getting back to KM after ACL surgery last October. It is frustrating as heck, but the time passes quicker than you’d expect.
My advice:
– Get a cryocuff, Donjoy Iceman, whatever… and lots and lots of ice. That Iceman was the best thing for a quick post-surgery recovery. Much better than icepacks or frozen pees. However, it’ll still chew up ice so load up your freezer before hand.
– Physical therapy and lots of it. Whatever they tell you to do, do it…. but if you’re into KM you already know about pushing yourself…
– Find a physical therapist that understands Marital Arts (I know, KM’s a self-defense system). I ran into this problem at the 4-month recovery mark. The PT folks I was seeing were used to dealing with old folks and soccer injuries. They were very helpful for the first 4 months but after that you should be working on sport-specific training. The first folks had no idea what to do at this point so I had to track down a different PT guy who had a TKD black belt.
Here’s some great advice for preparing yourself and your recovery space for the first fun-filled week of recovery:
http://users.jmts.com/~jimbo/acl/postop_list.html
Here’s a good blog for inspiration… good links to other blogs too:
Good Luck!
JasonThanks for the info and encouragement, Jason. Much appreciated! Thankfully, the folks I’ll be going to for PT (and the doc that is doing my surgery) are well acquainted with MA’ists from what I’ve seen. Hopefully that will translate into a recovery that is geared more towards my needs.
– Kelly
Re: Folks who train at Columbia, MD school…
quote brewerm:followup to our conversation last year. I can’t beleive I have been consistent for an entire year. passed my level II test which was really long as one of the testees wanted every single technique reviewed before hand. That took 2.5 hours and the test was 1.5 hours LLLOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGG day! Jeff Gordon is making us wear uniforms now. I am not happy since I bought a bunch of black shirts and long pants specifically for the training when he didn’t have what I needed size wise. That is becoming less of a problem as well4 hours for your L2 test?? Must be nice, I think ours lasted about 8.5 hours between workshop and actual testing. Long, long day but being called to line up and then told we’d all passed prior to bowing out made all the torture…I mean love… bestowed upon us worth it.
– Kelly
Re: Did Level 1 prepare you for Level 2?
quote JDOC:Hey good afternoon guys, my name is J and I train at KMWW West L.A., I recently tested for level 2 last saturday and I still have the bruises on my body!:chair: Well after a short recovery I went to my first level 2 class on monday and it was a very very big eye opener. I thought 360 defense was tough…the absorbing drills (punches to the head, stomach, and round kicks to the thigh) and all the leg blocks were just horrible. I must admit that I came into level 2 thinking I could handle it with ease but man was I dead wrong. Did anyone else feel this way going into level 2?From my experience, there’s always this jarring return to reality after every belt test – it reminds me of moving up to high school from middle school in a way. Things are more confusing (techs), the classes are harder, there is less hand holding in a sense. However, after a couple of weeks you start getting into the groove of the new material and soon enough it doesn’t feel so overwhelming, for lack of a better term. So to answer your question, yes I think most people feel that way when they moved from L1 to L2 or L2 to L3, etc.
– Kelly
Re: Taken
A great example of Parkour/Free running is the opening chase sequence from Casino Royale.
– Kelly
Re: Calories per KM session
quote Farhan:Good find. That was my exact issue. I didn’t want to guestimate and then base my calorie intake based on that guesstimation.Unfortunately it is going to be a lot of guess work. Those calculations don’t take into account irregular conditions, body type, sweat rate (people sweat differently), etc. For instance, two people with the same (or close to same) height/weight/build, doing the exact same amount of work at the exact same rate will burn calories at a differently because of their body’s efficiency and other conditions too numerous to name (i.e., overall health, rate of metabolism, etc.)
The only way to figure out how much you sweat would be to weigh yourself pre-workout, strictly limit the amount of fluid you intake during the workout, and then weigh yourself again post-workout. To get a good baseline idea this calculation would need to be repeated several times with the same exact environmental conditions present each time followed up by doing the same exact workout each time. Much easier to do indoors than out at least.
Personally, I’ve always been curious about mapping my heart rate during a Krav class but don’t find the thought of taking punches/kicks/etc. to the chest while wearing a HRM appealing. I need to try and remember to put the HRM strap on while I’m doing Bas next time tho.
– Kelly
Re: grapplers circut
quote Kirsten:Absolutely! Check out this thread… Its for starters and has a downloadable list that a user compiled of all bodyweight WOD’s.http://www.board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=38312
All bodyweight WOD’s (Workout Of the Day) that you can do at home, or at a track, or anywhere… I started with these.
Kirsten,
Thanks so much for posting this link. I’ve been itching to checkout CrossFit but find the local gym’s are out of my price range when I factor in Krav too. This will allow me to do some of the stuff without going broke to feed my fitness addiction!
– Kelly
Re: Lethargic moves and the efficiency of the lessons
quote Kior:IKMF uses a patch based grading system rather than belts. P refers to practitioner levels of which there are 5 with P5 being the highest. After that there are graduate, expert and master levels. Someone on the graduate levels will usually be an instructor (but not always). More information hereThanks Kior, I appreciate the quick explanation and the link.
