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Rocsteady wrote:I dunno what that is. A microscooter? They're really popular here in Budapest, look pretty wanky to me (and would look worse in the uk as they've not been popular since about 2000) but hey, do what you want, strawberry float what others think.

Brerlappin wrote:Got so jazzed about getting back to BJJ tonight after being on holidays for a week, that i walked out the door to work and forgot to bring my strawberry floating gear with me

Brerlappin wrote:

Rocsteady wrote:

Brerlappin wrote:Got so jazzed about getting back to BJJ tonight after being on holidays for a week, that i walked out the door to work and forgot to bring my strawberry floating gear with me

Now that my shoulder's improving again I'm looking at getting back into combat sports - I don't really trust it, alongside my previously strawberry floated wrists, with throwing lots of punches into a heavy bag though.

I see there's a bjj place quite near to me so thinking of going along in a few weeks time once my shoulder's near fully recovered to check it out. How would you say the injury profile with it is? Have you come across any major problems from it?

Well you'll hear a lot of people say it's a low injury, low impact sport. But I take that with a pinch of salt. Youve probably as much risk of injury as you would in a game of football. Some people are unlucky and get hurt, others just scrapes and bruises.
I've been hurt from it, but nothing worse than say, a bad case of DOMS. Got my arm continually cranked during kimura drills which left it sore for a few days. Skinned my knuckles badly making grips on my partner's Gi, got mild strain in my groin at one point, bruises pretty much head to toe, and a bit of a sore throat from being a guinea pig for collar chokes, but honestly so far the worst injury I've had was outside of BJJ, my wrist injury from hitting the heavy bag.
I think if you're careful, and are lucky to not get continually paired up with spazzy white belts, you can train as safely as possible for a combat sport.
Seriously white belts are the most dangerous people in the sport, when I train I do it slowly, methodically, trying to memorize all steps of the move, but some dudes are just like "I must do this as fast and hard as humanly possible" like it's life or death (I am a WB but I like to think I'm not the spazzy kind)