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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

37 here, my knees are great. Sprained my ankle back for the very first time back in November in my kickboxing class and I'm starting to fear I've done permanent damage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It gets worse. Take care of your body

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they're in a kickboxing class it sounds like they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damage from being kicked is far less damaging than damage from a sedentary lifestyle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

maybe, if you get kicked in the head a couple times it's potentially far worse, and in all cases it's far greater than most other kinds of exercise. do kickboxing if you want to, I'm not trying to knock anyone's interest, and life is too short to avoid things you love for fear of injury, but if it's actually about health you wanna do low impact cardio and careful, controlled resistance training

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The sprained ankle wasn't from being kicked. They have a "light sparring" class which I haven't done yet. I've been kickboxing for about 9 months, we're either hitting a bag or doing partner work where one person is using mitts or paddles which the other person strikes in a predetermined combo. I got the mouth guard and the shin guards, hoping to try it out in the next couple of weeks.

The sprained ankle was from doing a switch kick in the air and falling on my ass. The ankle that was supporting my weight when I fell was the one that got sprained.

One of my goals in life is to never get kicked in the head. Maybe going to kickboxing isn't a good idea.