Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: daddysprop247 Sinergy, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, without judgement. i will certainly pass on all the information you have given to my Master. My pleasure, daddysprop247. quote:
to answer your question, when i see stars yes my head does rotate, usually because those particular blows are always unexpected. they always make me stumble or fall down. but if i sense that a slap is coming i will involuntarily tense my face and my head won't jar so much, although the pain will be worse. Fair enough. You are probably experiencing the results of brain bounce trauma to the brain. Tensing your face and head might work. Have you ever heard of the concept of slipping a punch? Rather than tense for the blow, you relax and start moving your body / head in the direction the blow is going to move the skull anyway. This works because the accelaration from 0 to whatever is a bigger number than the accelaration from 1 to whatever. Since force is mass times the square of acceleration, anything you can do to lower the value for acceleration is worthwhile. A good example of this happened in class the other night. I was doing a drill where the student repeatedly knees me in the groin. So the student steps in and heel palms me in the face. Happily, I have extensive experience slipping punches and walked away from it with a fat lip. quote:
also i wanted to clarify what i meant by "cheek level"...his hand lands in a way so that it partially covers my cheek, upper jaw, and ear. If the palm cups your ear, the pressure differential might pop your eardrum. This causes vertigo, possible bleeding out of the ear, increased risk of inner ear infections for the rest of your life, and decreased ability to hear over time. I tend to avoid hitting in the area of the ear. But then, I am only slapping for fun. quote:
He would never hit me square on the cheek for disciplinary purposes, as it's not all that shocking or painful. Depending on how hard one hits, it can be quite shocking or painful. quote:
the deaf thing always sort of freaks me out. i cannot say for sure whether it's a deafness in both ears or just in one...but it's usually a total silence followed by a period of a few minutes where it's a low humming or buzzing, although if someone is loud i can still hear them over it. Sounds exactly like auditory exclusion. Our students have a similar thing going on during our fights. They generally cannot really hear what I am saying to them, and the female instructor is behind her head yelling into her ear about how to respond to me to make me go away. I love imprinting on the limbic system. quote:
my Master told me once about a fight he was in back in high school, where a classmate sitting behind him all of a sudden slapped him hard across the side of his head, and he went deaf for a minute or so. it sounded just like what happens to me, so i was curious as to what causes such a thing and how likely it is to lead to anything serious. if it is just auditory exclusion as you say, then that would be a relief. of course i do not think i take quite as much head trauma as a boxer, so hopefully there is nothing to worry about. Hearing issues are probably auditory exclusion. Seeing stars is probably coup contre-coup stuff. Former not a problem, latter a problem over time or severity. Think of it this way, if you have 100 coupons for get out of brain damage free, and somebody drops a brick on your head, you use all your coupons. If you lose one coupon each time you take a full-power smack to the head, eventually you run out of coupons. I would suggest you ask your Daddy consider where he slaps you, and research possible sequelae from that. Please give my regards to your Daddy. Sinergy
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