Topic: accidents

[Fledgling]

Last Sunday I slipped while jumping for a bar, landed on a mat, luckily, and strained my neck enough to prevent me from doing rolls for most of this week. Then, just as that was healing, I twisted my hip on Thursday and I'm pretty sure I just broke a finger/hand when it caught in a groove on the crate I was vaulting over. I also have a screwed up ankle from an event in November that I hurt about twice a week. I know that parkour isn't the safest lifestyle out there, but this seems a little much. I've been practicing for a few months, but I've only recently been doing it regularly (~1 to 2 hours/day, depending on how busy I am) and it seems like I'm always telling myself, "No, I can't do ____ right now because of my _____". Is this just a phase or something? I'm hoping that once I get more comfortable with this kind of movement this will stop. Do most people go through this, or am I doing something wrong? Someone here might tell me to back off, but if I don't ever do thing I'm not used to, I'll never get better. Whenever I get hurt, its usually something I've done a hundred times. I follow the advice here and other places (i.e. I'm not hurt from "taking drops"). What should I do?

[Ken PKChiro]

That's the thing with injuries.  You injure something and compensate, then injure something else, and compensate, etc etc.  Even if you've done it a hundred times.  I'd recommend finding a good health care provider who can help manage your injuries.  Parkour, I'd argue, is safer than most other disciplines/sports.  Because unlike many sports and disciplines, it's you and the environment.  Not you, the skateboard/soccerball/otherperson and the environment.

Always train safe, and take the time to condition your body to master the basic techniques.  Core stabilization is always a plus too.

Anyway, my recommendation is finding a good PT or Chiropractor to manage you're injuries before you keep compensating to injure other things.

[Steven Low]

Injuries likely mean that you are trying to progress too fast (unless they're freak accidents).

Take a few steps back. Get yourself back to full health and then move back 2-3 steps to where you were previous and focus on awareness, technique and everything else. Get yourself in the right mindset and drill drill drill everything until you reconfident and have extremely good awareness of everything.

The better your awareness and body control the less likely accidents will occur. These are things developed by practicing the basics thousands of times.

[sparta98]

I dunno that sounds like bad karma...

I hope it works out for you whatever do.