Actually let me expand on Rousey. I’m into her looks, her bitchiness, her fierce loyalty, and her judo throws. All around excellent package to root for.
be the hammer, not the anvil (pound through the crud/roots/bumps and you don’t let the twisting happen). bad bindings are a typical culprit too.
21 years of skiing for me, never a major injury just a few concussions from trees. I’ve seen lots of shoulder and wrist injuries with boarders, and typically more concussions since you can’t fall well.
be the hammer, not the anvil (pound through the crud/roots/bumps and you don’t let the twisting happen). bad bindings are a typical culprit too.
21 years of skiing for me, never a major injury just a few concussions from trees. I’ve seen lots of shoulder and wrist injuries with boarders, and typically more concussions since you can’t fall well.
Falling over the downhill edge on a snowboard… Ouch.
I did it once while moving at a good clip. Landed forward with my arm under me and bruised my liver. Knocked wind out of me too so I sounded like the grape stomping lady for a while.
I went to a doctor who put me on Tylenol 3 with codeine for a few days. After 5 days of it not being better and having serious pain up above my stomach right across I went to my own doctor. He had me immediately get an xray done next door and told me to come right back and he told his assistant to interrupt him when I returned.
So I did.
I handed the xray to her, she got him and he was looking at it on a light box in the hall. He called me out of the waiting room to look at it.
"See that big dark area across there below your ribs there? "
I replied “yeah” with trepidation fearing it was internal bleeding or something equally horrible
He started laughing…
"that’s your large intestine…the dark stuff… It’s shit. You’re all bunged up from the codeine. When’s the last time you took a dump? "
Which made me realize he was right. Not since the snowboard day.
Falling over the downhill edge on a snowboard… Ouch.
I did it once while moving at a good clip. Landed forward with my arm under me and bruised my liver. Knocked wind out of me too so I sounded like the grape stomping lady for a while.
I went to a doctor who put me on Tylenol 3 with codeine for a few days. After 5 days of it not being better and having serious pain up above my stomach right across I went to my own doctor. He had me immediately get an xray done next door and told me to come right back and he told his assistant to interrupt him when I returned.
So I did.
I handed the xray to her, she got him and he was looking at it on a light box in the hall. He called me out of the waiting room to look at it.
"See that big dark area across there below your ribs there? "
I replied “yeah” with trepidation fearing it was internal bleeding or something equally horrible
He started laughing…
"that’s your large intestine…the dark stuff… It’s shit. You’re all bunged up from the codeine. When’s the last time you took a dump? "
Which made me realize he was right. Not since the snowboard day.