This Sunday I was still suffering from a sore back so I only did yoga. I did it for about an hour, only skipping the postures that I thought would be detrimental to my back... and the difficult postures. I was very tentative about all the stretching, in fact if you’ve ever been to a yoga class, I was like the retired woman to whom reaching even their own knees during a hamstring stretch, is a success. Actually this old lady would have probably put me to shame on Sunday. Oh well, never mind.
Just a glimpse into this gym and by no means the full picture, but enough to let you know that if you are ever in Berlin, always bring your gi.
For the last couple of day’s I’ve been applying the German version of deep heat (‘Finalgon’) to my back to help aid my recovery. On Sunday night just before going to bed I made the schoolboy error of applying it to my knee and inner leg. At about one or two in the morning I woke up, convinced that my knee had contracted a sexually transmitted disease. It was quite simply, on fire (my knee, no where above the knee), and not just oohhhh it’s hot, it’s helping level of heat, more the, there is a distinct possibility of chemical burn and hideous knee scarring level of heat. I groggily applied a couple of ice packs and my knee was sweating profusely. I eventually managed to re-enter the world of sleep only by curling into the fetal position, with a wet towel, wrapped around ice, firmly clutched between my knees. I woke up in the morning, after a satisfying dream which involved drowning the creator of Fianlgon in a bath tub full of the stuff, only to find that there was absolutely no scarring, no burn marks, not even a reddened patch on my knee. I had no evidence with which to launch my compensation claim. Not only that, I also had a wet patch in the middle of my bed around crotch height, but we all know it was just water!
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So is that jkdberlin's school? The guy who runs the Kampfkunst forum?
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