What is the most severe injury u had while dealing with MA weapons?

Discussion in 'Weapons' started by Marfleet, Dec 23, 2005.

  1. Marfleet

    Marfleet New Member

    Just curious to know about other peoples injuries while dealing with martial arts weapons, wether someone injured u with one, or if u did it urself by accident! Mine so far is swinging the nunchakus in a place i rather it didn't and it hurt! Unable to get up for 5 mins lol and it wasn't made of foam either, it was a heavy wooden one lol

    What r ur experiences or ur most severe injury concerning weapons?
     
  2. Kogusoku

    Kogusoku 髭また伸びた! Supporter

    One of my dojo mates in the kenjutsu dojo I trained in when I lived in Japan was training in batto and was practicing a technique called "nuki-uchi" with a shinken. He had a slight lapse of judgement in timing and proceeded to almost completely sever his thumb from his left hand as he was rapidly drawing his katana.

    He hadn't realised that he had cut himself until one of the dojo seniors noticed a blood trail and tracked down the source. Poor fella's thumb was just hanging off by a small flap of skin.

    After that he started to faint from shock and blood loss, we broke out the first aid kit, applied pressure to the area kept his wounded hand high above the heart and drove him to the hospital. Within 5 months, he was back in action, with his thumb reattached. :) The katana was so sharp that it hadn't damaged the nerve endings.

    I had a similar injury doing nukitsuke and almost severed my left index finger with a shinken. I was doing the technique a lot slower, so I noticed what was happening and stopped. The cut was only 1/2 an inch deep and I didn't feel anything for a couple of minutes. Then it hurt like hell.

    Weapons awareness is sometimes a hard lesson to learn, but when you learn it, you learn it for life. I haven't made the same mistake since, neither have any of my seniors. FWIW.
     
  3. Davey Bones

    Davey Bones New Member

    Poked myself in the thigh right by the femoral with an opera spear. OWIE!

    Surprisingly enough, a small poke is the worst, and I've used Butterfly Swords, Sai, Chinese Straight Swords, Staffs, Spears, Double Short Sticks, Double Steel Fans, and Three-Sectioned Staff...
     
  4. Sojiro

    Sojiro New Member

    i'll keep mine short 'n sweet,

    alcohol & weighted rope is not a favorable training session

    !
     
  5. Gray

    Gray New Member

    Uhm... I was hit in the head with a cricket bat once. Other than that...

    Seriously though, I don't train in weapons, but if I did I would train with a bokken... Safety first!
     
  6. Anth

    Anth Daft. Supporter

    Only the usuals - bad head and legs and jaw with nunchaku and dropping sai on my feet.
     
  7. Dr.Syn

    Dr.Syn Valued Member

    I almost gave myself a concussion playing with a 3-sectional staff..So much for learn at home in your spare time..
     
  8. Sojiro

    Sojiro New Member

    the blade cut through scabbard?
    i've read about similar incidents >.<
     
  9. Kogusoku

    Kogusoku 髭また伸びた! Supporter

    No, the blade didn't cut through the scabbard, my index finger was over the koiguchi of the saya when it should have been more to the rear of the koiguchi. It was basically bad hand placement, bad timing and bad awareness.
     
  10. Grippereeno

    Grippereeno New Member

    One of my trainin pals was clocked over the head with a staff during a sparing session as he never blocked high enough and the staff bent round his and split his scalp open he had to go and get it glued closed...
     
  11. psbn matt

    psbn matt great sage = of heaven

    i've hit myself in the head, face, legs and crotch, with both my staff and chucks. i have also stabed my self so hard in the soft part of my knee with a wooden sword that i couldn't walk, and have stabed myself in the back with my metal sword. got my knuckles mashed in staff sparring, lots of cuts and scrapes in sword sparring. thats all so far but i'm sure ther will be more
     
  12. Dave Humm

    Dave Humm Serving Queen and Country

    I've lost a third of the tip of my left index finger through careless noto, the finger (the last inch or so) has a peculiar, but perfectly defined angle to it now after a year of healing.

    Suffice to say that I won't perform tameshigiri and then immediately noto again without first thinking about what I'm doing !!

    I've also stabbed my left upper arm with the kissaki during seitei, thankfully I was using an iaito at the time otherwise the injury would have been much worse.

    Regards
     
  13. Kogusoku

    Kogusoku 髭また伸びた! Supporter

    Dave, that must have stung like hell. Did it really take a full year to heal?
     
  14. TheDarkJester

    TheDarkJester 90% Sarcasm, 10% Mostly Good Advice.

    I've had numerous. I've had a few "warm" episodes with double fire poi :D

    Made the mistake of not tucking my elbows close and together on my body while doing a reverse weave on a 3 sectional staff. 1st section smacked my thigh, and I realized as soon as that happened what was going to follow.. Before I could say "Oh beep" Full speed on the crown of my head. Saw spots for a few minutes...

    My most previous blunder would be with my rope dart. Full speed forward swing.. Don't know how I managed it, but full speed into the inside of my right knee.. on the pressure point. Instant Cold Sweat.. dropped the weapon and staggered to a chair. Thought I broke it for sure.. Got up 5 minutes later, went right back to it :)

    Watched a kid clock himself full speed in the back of the head with a 9 sectional heavy weight whip. Not the wushu types.. the ones with 1/2 inch thick sections and the massive spike on the end. He dropped like a bad habit. Quite amusing after trying to get him back up and walking...

    Busted knuckles, wrists, ribs from staff training and stick fighting.

    They say pain is the greatest teacher.. but no one likes his class. I guess that means I do, because I keep coming back for more.

    Please do not swear in your posts, even if the filter gets it - Anth
     
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  15. Dave Humm

    Dave Humm Serving Queen and Country

    aye, almost. It took about 6 months before I could confidently run a blade without feeling discomfort (or the dread of pain in the finger as the cut was full thickness to the bone at the tip.)

    I was first told that given the width of the wound, I would need a graft but the specialist in Hull left it to heal "defensively". I now have a reasonable scar which hurts like buggery when the weather is cold or when I knock it.

    The rest of the healing time has been simply the re-growth of skin thickness.

    When I made the cut I heard it more than felt it, I knew instantly that I'd sustained a bad cut but I simply placed my thumb over it to hold the skin flap in place and stuck it under cold water... It bled like a stuck pig.

    The joke of this is that on the day I did this, I was due to take the wife out for a meal which had already been put off thus, I didn't dare cancel so, I dressed the finger to stem the bleeding (still no pain) and went home, just explained I'd cut myself and went to the cinema then on for the meal. When I got home my finger was now 'pounding' and I thought I'd better check.

    The moment I ditched the dressing and about half a yard of elastoplast tape, the wound just exploded again lol... Blood everywhere. Much to the distaste of the better half.

    So off to the hospital where I simply agreed with them that I'd sliced it with a Stanley knife... As that was what they thought I'd done.

    Regards
     
  16. Cosmo Kramer

    Cosmo Kramer Valued Member

    hit myself in the groin with a chuck. not good
     
  17. scaythe

    scaythe Valued Member

    Given myself a few good whacks to the back of the head with 3 section staff and chain whip, and given myself a slice to the knee during twine and wrap around head with a broadsword when using a borrowed dao that had two completely oversized silk flags on the end that tangled my wrist.

    Gf keeps trying to talk me into letting her teach me some fire poi stuff, which given the length of my hair and its propensity for unruliness, I think carries more risk of injury by setting my pony tail on fire than any MA related weapon-work.
     
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  18. Marfleet

    Marfleet New Member

    Wow! Some pretty amazing stories there! Keep them coming!

    Also, could u share more experiences with accidents during training?

    Many Thnx!
     
  19. rubberband

    rubberband Valued Member

    As a dumb kid thinking I was in a Chuck Norris movie I did a front kick while holding a large survival knife in reverse grip and basically rammed my thigh up onto the blade... :bang:

    After training for in a three hour open mat class I was playing with a guy's four year old son and managed to tear the ligament on top of my foot...

    10 days before my wedding... I was practicing improper (weighted Chain) kusarifundo strikes which sent the weight slamming into my face right between the my left nostril and lip causing a Y shaped laceration which required 3 stitches... good thing I wore a mustache back then...

    Last spring while teaching private self defence lessons... I was teaching basic front rolls... A roll I have been doing for fifteen years of so... and as I was talking and doing the roll I got my ring finger trapped in a crease in the mat and rolled on it causing a sprain so bad that the knuckle is now disfigured... and I can't play the piano... of course I couldn't play before the accident either...

    Oh wait, most recent accident that hurt... not related to martial arts but freaky all the same... I was raking leaves in my yard and the rake just snapped by my lowest hand causing the top end tip to hit me in the temple... I was punch drunk for a little while and had to lay down...

    getting hurt is funny... that is until someone gets injured...

    take care, steve
     
  20. Shokku

    Shokku Banned Banned

    Well, I once struck myself at the groin with a nunchucku. That was unpleasant...

    I once threw a glaive which upon leaving my hand cut through my middle finger. There was an impressive amount of blood involved, and there was what I believe was calcium on the blade. It certainly felt as if it cut into my bone. The scar still remains.
     

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