male only Any Martial Artist or MMA guys

[plain 12]

I think I'm jealous!! I've been searching for a Krav studio for a long time. The nearest one to me is, like, 170 miles away......sucks......but good luck to you Layne.

[globetrotter 0]

I do krav, and had the surgury almost a year ago. I am still very cautious of my port, but I grapple and roll around and spar without any problems so far. I really do worry that I will flip my port, though. but no problems so far

[firemedic154 0]

Thanks for the replys. I have recieved 1 reply in the intro. I have to lay off Krav. for > 1-year post ACL recon. last year. I am back to work but I miss it.

Layne.

[fun4matt 0]

Hay guys,

I have been banded for a while. prior to banding I did martial arts and after banding continued. I am still in it, sill no direct hit on the port. I am still waiting for the accident to happen. I have had people walk all over my stomach and take direct hits to the stomach on a regular basis. not direct hit yet on the port. if anyone has had the direct hit yet, I would love to here about it.

[sensei 0]

I have been doing several martial arts. I was banded on Nov 18th. I started working out again, mostly weights and oblique twists and stuff like that. I went to the new boxing gym by the house...one of my past students is teaching MMA there. I've been training with him for several years now.

Anyway, yesterday Dec 4th, i sparred for the first time since being banded. I wore the big muy thai abb pad and it went well. One of the guys thought I was wearing it so he could practice his knees. Good thing he was new and not very good with the knees!

I train in Limalama, Aikido, and still do some Shotokan. Mostly MMA now though. I haven't done any aikido yet. Still a little cautious. I have a seminar in January that I'm going to try and make. We'll see how it turns out.

[sensei 0]

Hey Snowman...ever hear of Limalama?

[scarecrow 4]

where's your port snowman?

Mine's on my upper left abdomen (some ppl are getting them on their chest?) and... it's caused me a bit of pain before.

I've always been fine for rolling, but watch the body shots. I've gotten "discomfort" from being hit on the port a couple of times. One time it hurt for days afterwards, and it was enough to kind of make me favor the spot defensively for a few weeks.

Other than that I would think everything would be fine. I wouldn't suggest any rubber guards or anything of the such : P. I waited 2 month before going back to any training at all, but felt fine rolling after that.

[shaun5584 0]

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that posted here. I'm currently pre-op and have been thinking about going back into martial arts aikido, krav, bjj, etc afterwards but have been wary b/c of the port and everything. My doc said I should be okay, but I didn't really feel comfortable with the answer, probably fear related, but listening to y'all makes me feel better about this and the possible outcomes. I also promise that if I take a direct port hit to let everyone know how badly it hurt. :redface:

[Andrew6 0]

I use to do combative jui jitsu and sedakon many years ago but I couldn't see going back to that training 2 weeks after surgery. I didn't even turn big valves at work for 6 weeks. They say that you can go back to work pretty much immediately after but if you're in a high stress or job that requires more physical activity than an office job I would recommend waiting. I was told after the healing etc... that you could go back to all things normal no matter stress level.