Re: Another street(tm)fight...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chas wrote:
> The other thing I'll tell you is take good care of your body, just in case
> you live long enough to get old. 'Hard training' is only good if you
> actually have some place in your life to use it. Otherwise, it's just
> getting a lot of injuries for nothing, and they'll haunt you for half your
> life.

Ain't that the truth.

I have a nice shopping list of old injuries from my fightin' days (1982-1992):

- 5 concussions (2 serious)
- ruptured achilles tendon
- 3 severely sprained (2nd and 3rd degree) ankles
- two broken fingers
- 1 broken thumb
- factured radial bone (minor)
- fractured tibia (minor)
- torn plantar fascia (look it up)
- nice scar under right eyebrow 
- chipped teeth (thankfully minor)
- cartilage damage to both knees - left bad.
- bad back
- knife scar on left deltoid 
- small knife scar on face from a grazing slash (thankfully minor)

I think that's it.

And what do I have to show for all that ?  Big f-in' Goose-Egg.
The only bright side is I never had my nose broken.

The back, achilles tendon, left arch of foot and left knee give me pain 
from time to time - especially on cold damp "low atmospheric pressure" 
days.

If I have any advice to give, it's to listen to your body when you
train: if it hurts, STOP.  Do not work through pain - if it hurts,
then there's a reason why it's hurting.

I used to believe in "no pain no gain", or "pain is just weakness
leaving the body" - it's all bullshit catchphrases from the
80s.

El Franko