If somebody goes for your bad shoulder just tap - it's no big deal.
Agreed, Bruce I suffered a shoulder sprain/bicep muscle sprain in April and even after I warm up sometimes it still feels on and off. I tap in practice soon as someone locks in a hold (in my preinjury experience, by the time someone has the figure 4 it's 95% of the way there anyways, I prob can count on one hand the number of times I managed to escape the figure 4 lock on an arm once their mind was set on an Americana or Kimura, and I have/had flexible shoulders too). If you tell ur training partners to be respectful of ur shoulders they will (that doesn't mean get sloppy, have them remind u when u do).
Is it possible for u to discuss with Cora's instructor if u could come in for a class once or twice a month for a discount (that's still nowhere being ideal, but at least u'd be hitting the mat a couple times instead of none). The other thing I would try to research is any local jiu jitsu clubs at a college or something, some of those run free and the only expense u would pay would be ur gas and time to drive and park there (with the Harvard club I train at I just pay for parking on my accord and my gas).
Anyways welcome back.....
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