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I was thrown on my head the last BJJ practice before Thanksgiving last year. Didn’t think it was an actual fracture, just some minor swelling, in the back, and no symptoms of head injury, so I basically rested and used only the assault bike with no arms for a couple of weeks before going to the doctor. Turns out that it was about the right course of action in any case. In a way, I’m grateful, since it meant that I got a bunch of equipment, including my own assault bike for home, before the pandemic and those things became impossible to find. I also only started to do very soft drills in the latter half of February, so I got to practice a bit, but without any real possibility for further injury, right before the lockdown. A serious injury is never welcome, but if one has to happen, that one had lucky timing. By the time I was in Italy in early January, my back felt much better, but fatigued easily, and it probably helped me take things a bit easier than I normally do at Pitti Uomo. Since it’s thanksgiving, I’m thankful that I had that time in Italy, got to eat with @gdl203 , @Cobbler Union , @Carmina , @spiermackay , @ArchibaldLondon , @ArchibaldRoh , and a bunch of others, and also got to take my wife to Rome for her first time.Yeah, no way when my boomer back went that I could put on my socks or step off a curb let alone do KB swings.
None of us really saw the hard rest of 2020 coming at that time.