Anybody ever had a bad luck month for training?

[David Rosado]

WARNING: Piss and moan complaint thread.

Seriously though, this past month has been horrible for my training. Sucks cuz I'm finally at the point where I'm feeling the pieces come together and I know the inconsistency is messing with my memory and conditioning.

So, for starters, I'm flooded with work so I have to put in overtime just to get my regular job done. Big deal, I figured out how to balance my time out. Then I get a damned summer cold that has me in bed all day with body aches and cold sweats. Ok, cool, I snuck in a thursday. But the that weekend, either the cold came back or I got something from someone else and that was a chest cold where I was couging and weezing for like 4 days straight. And then this past weekend I spilled fresh hot tea on my bed and I have friggin 2nd degree burns on my thigh and ass cheek. So I'm out for at least another week. I just wanna train man. SMH.

Feel free to piss and moan. I just had to get that out.

[cade]

I hurt my neck about every three months and takes me out for 3 weeks... Drives me nuts!

[Kyle Hilfiker]

Dude, I feel your pain. Get back to Empire soon man!

[Kyle Spalla]

Got into training, friends car got t-boned. Cant train till the middle of this month. Trying to stay positive though

[John Mejia]

Dude I'm with you. August has been shit for me. I trashed my knee doing some shit i knew I shouldn't have been doing. I couldn't compete which was devistating. And that shit is still lingering around and really messing with my ability to regain guard and rechamber my leg for shrimp moves and stuff. Just keep your head up and invest in a travel mug my friend. :-)

[CTGRXB]

In one month I got the flu, then rib injury, then knee... The rib is a little painful if I do certain movements and after class for a little, the knee pain comes the next day.

[Beefheart]

i stabbed myself 3 inches into my calf at work, out for a week, next week before class sliced my arm open, six stitches, another week, got ring worm outside of class, out for 2 weeks, finally recovered but i'm new at a new gym and got into a heated match with a purple belt there prior to the first stabbing, d'arce'd him (embarrassing, i'm unranked), ever since then the head instructor (also a purple belt) at the gym keeps telling me i can't come back until my ringworm is 'healed', brought a doctors note, showed him that my scars are all but completely gone, he's 'still skeptical', so i took an extra week of medication, still haven't been able to go back. i've been out for like a month just swinging kettlebells and drinking/smoking away my frustration.

i think they don't like me cause i basically only go to nogi classes and omoplata them ("but that doesn't work!") from rubber guard ("that also doesn't work!") and don't do the shit they teach on account of one of the fucking instructors there fucked up his student's leg demonstrating a technique. Nice, man, think i'll stick to practicing my youtubejitsu on your students, thanks. you know what i'm saying? fucking gi drama imo. the price you pay for representing what works. 10pjj, cacc. or maybe i'm just being defensive and paranoid... iunno.



/rant

[Kyle Hilfiker]

Dude... funniest thing. After replying on this friend I went to go to class, slipped in a thunderstorm when running out to my car and just trashed all my shit in the biggest puddle of runoff, mud and gravel. I am sooooo Pissed! You jinxed me Dave!

[Kyle Hilfiker]

I can apparently not make complete sentences that make sense apparently! :/

[Joachim Hoff]

I'm not in training.. Need to apply for university. But I've done a grown up school program. Part of the criteria you need to get into university trough that is having worked for 5 years. I've worked for twelve, as a bouncer and security/mall cop. I've split the hours on two jobs, and only worked enough to get by. (Except for some years) Turns out they only look at one job each year.. 37.5 hours minimum a week. (from one job only, the combined hours from two doesn't count) Or they look at your income. This enables them to say; that "I'm missing two years of "work"
Basically I have been splitting the hours, (wrong apparently, good upstanding citizens work ONE job), and I've made too little money. (The reason I finished high school and wanted to apply for university in the first place)

So my solution; I got a restaurant job, making Chinese food, and I'm working my ass off. Literally working my hands to the bone. (Well there's no bone, but my hands are starting to look Freddie Kruger like, haha) I'm trashed after work, I never know when I'm working, and I'm working all the time. Dayshifts, nightshifts, weekends.. I'm gonna fix my bike and get my ass to the gym again, but this last month have been working only.

When I can apply for university, things become much easier. School in daytime only, and I'll still be quite well off financially.

It sucks, but I had to make a choice this time and prioritize my future. I've wasted a lot of years in my life, two more doesn't count. I really don't need all that money either, just the hours.. So I'm planning a trip to Hamburg or Japan, visit a tenth planet school there!