Muay Thai XIV

Am currently nursing a swollen right foot. Kicked the punch bag wrongly during circuits when we were having fighter training at Cairnhill. It wasn't that bad at first Iwas just limping slightly. But now the whole foot is swollen =(( I was supposed to do low shin kicks. My left leg was fine but my right leg just couldn't do it right and the instep kept hitting the bag. I hit it once and I felt a sharp pain but I decided to carry on. The next kick was just fine but then suddenly I kicked and my foot connected with the bag and I knew I would not kick with my right leg anymore. It was that painful.

Think the blood clotted when I went to chill just now... hmmm am icing it and massaging it but even moving my toes hurts the foot =((

Well today during the normal training, we did a hell lot of pad work. We started with jabs, punches, one-two punches, cross, vertical elbow, cross elbow, diagonal elbow, knees and shin kicks for about 30s each activity. Then we had to do combinations 10reps per combi. Then we did anoter set and we did double shin kicks as well. We also do shin kicks left-right 20 and ended off with shin kicks 1-12, the no. of kicks the same as the set we were doing. We were tired after that mann hahaha BUT it was GREAT!!

After the circuit training during fighter training, Coach L thought us the first few parts of the Waikrhu.
1) Before we enter the ring, we kneel at the stairs and bow, scooping some earth energy and capping it onto our heads.
2) We move to the middle of the rope and put our hands in a praying gesture, then smoothen them out to the sides caressing the top rope, doing this motion thrice.
3)Enter the ring by pressing the ropes down, stepping in first and onto the bottom rope then going in with the other leg.
4) Face the head judge, and apply pressure on the front leg and bow; bow to the four sides of the ring like so in a clockwise manner.
5) Head to your corner of the ring and pray for blessing at the corner. Then bend your front leg slightly and jab(right hand) the pillar three times moving upwards, on the third bringing it up in a flourish.
6) Slide the right hand on the rope as you walk to the next pillar and do the same untill all four pillars have been prayed to. Advance to the middle of the next rope and move to the centre of the ring.
7) Circle a spot three times and finally kneel down. (Right leg in front, left knee goes down first.)
8) Bow forward scooping up earth energy and bring it to your heart, head and form a diamond shape while looking upward.
9) Place the left hand on the floor as you raise the right up in a twist to the right and look at the right. Bring it down to join your left to form a triangle/diamond on the ground and touch it with your forehead.
10) Bring the right arm back up again and then bring it to join your left at the chest. Repeat this once more. Stand up.

Hope to learn more. This is highly symbolic for me and I love the way we show respect to the ring and elements like so. Hope my foot will get better soon so that I can go down for Thursday's training! Won't go for Tuesday's I guess. But I wanna train again soon =))