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About specific injury while training in your specific art. Treatment and what-might-happen are both off topic.

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Frequent ribcage injuries, is this normal?

If you have no visible bruising, you might want to consider if it's something else. There are muscles all along the side, and it's not horribly difficult to pull them. Several of your examples above s …
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How to avoid calf pain with heel stomp

Ultimately, I went with another professional wrestling standby of hopping a half inch or so in the air and distributing my weight between the two feet. As a bonus, it also makes the stomp look a bit m …
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Why numerous martial artists break their legs while throwing roundhouse kicks to opponent's ...

A fighter might throw hundreds of leg kicks without a severe injury like this. …
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Why is blindness or eye rupture not more common in boxing or MMA?

Boxing had higher eye injury rates compared to MMA ( p < 0.0001), with an odds ratio of 1.268 (95% CI, 1.114-1.444). … Therefore, most injury is actually induced by repeated blunt trauma causing things like retinal detachment and TBI. …
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Blisters from sticks

When I was doing Doce Pares Escrima several years ago, I ran into the same problem. I used cloth athletic/medical tape to cover up the blistered areas to give them a chance to heal and at one point, w …
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Old student looking for a new style

As per my recommendation to Help picking a martial art (avoiding head strikes), Capoeira might not be a bad style to check out, in particular Angola Capoeira, which tends to be slower and more strateg …
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