Just got my foot popped in sparring today. Can barely walk.

Some badass who trains regularly at Tristar and Brazilian Top Team came to my school to do a drop in class. I volunteer to spar with him, like I usually do with everyone who comes to my school. I go really relaxed. He comes at me like a bull and then at some point goes 100% for my foot and pops it. Now I can barely walk. For obvious reasons, this really sucks for me. A part of my livelihood depends on my ability to run a martial arts school and teach. I spar every single day with all my students and now I can barely move around. I have 3 competitions lined up for October and November and now all that is probably not going to happen. I think that I probably have to set some parameters before sparring with people I don't know.

Leglocks are so dangerous, I'm always okay with tapping early to them. Better to start again than get your knee reaped.

not a fan of those types. i like to roll because it is a mental chess match. if someone locks me in something that i either cant get out of or it puts me in a fair amount of pain but not enough to tap if it were a competition, id still tap. i have a job so i cant play rambo on the mat just tap and restart.

What a douche bag. Just lock it up and give a brother time to tap. I just don't understand that mentality.

I want my coach 100% healthy. This sucks.

Man, that sucks. You just had your back! Fuck I cant stand cockheads who cant leave their egos at home.

I train at Southwest MMA in Phoenix. We aren't Eddie Bravo affiliated or with anyone, for that matter. But I feel badly for you. That injury takes months to heal from. Why do that to a person? Especially someone with experience who should obviously know better. Pretty sad. Jitsu is really a battle of you versus you, what you can apply, what you can do, learning to relent when in advantage and learning to accept the tap when not. Sad that some people are just that way. Well, best of luck. And you are Canadian, too. Must have been an American who did it! Canadians are so nice. Ha, just kidding with the generalizations. Feel better.

Sorry to hear Luis.

Damn. Take it easy my man, you're almost my age. :)

Btw, you know when we had that convo, where you asked me if I fear getting hurt, and I said, bluntly, 'no'.
Since then, my body suddenly started falling apart. Some tendon ish in my shoulder developed, then I hyper extended my elbow (wasn't even rolling), brutally stubbed my toe last week, plus I hurt my groin while, get this, laughing too hard at a joke (has that ever happened to anyone?).

I was asking myself, "is this what they mean when your body falls apart?". My problem has always been that I ignore injuries (if not debilitating like the ones you encounter) and keep training. :(

I watched a guy footlock somone recently. He grabbed the foot when the guys leg was fully extended, the guy started tapping and he didnt let the submission go till the leg was twisted all the way up to just about the small of his back. It was terrible, the guy was tapping for like two or three seconds.

On another note, its a credit to you Louis that you roll with everyone who comes to your gym. A lot of people wont put themselves on the line.

Another reason to hate GSP!