Heeding Advice.

I went to training today, and it was tiring as usual.

One thing I learnt today is that always heed advises from the experienced, a Chinese saying that "不听老人言，吃亏在眼前。“ it roughly means something like that "if you do not heed the advise of a elder or veteran, you are gonna suffer a loss right before your eyes." 

And here is how I really get to understand the nuisance of the saying. You know before I got to know or come in contact with Kyorugi (sparring), I had little to none knowledge of sparring. However, I remembered at some point of time, during trainings, coach told us to always clench our fists when sparring and not to open it because there is a chance of getting kicked by the opponent in the hand and get injured. And she went on to told us an anecdote that she have once seen people injured their hands real bad in competition, that a guy's fingers got fractured , blood were flowing and bones were showing (scary and gory) as the result of he didn't clench his fist. At that moment, I was just listening to it like a story and never have much thought of this could happen to me. So after some times, I get into contact with sparring, and start to practising it. I felt that clenching my fist is just not a natural thing to do, it restricted in my movements in some ways, moreover, I could better fend off my opponent's kicks with my hands open, just push them away. So, I thought I had a great control over my hands and it didn't occur to me that anything bad can happen to me by keeping my hands open in sparring... until today's training. Today we did sparring practise with light contacts, so it happened when I was doing a back thrust and my opponent did a turning kick, and he accidentally kicked my fingers. My fingers was forced backwards, like when you pull your fingers backwards and try to touch the back of your hand, it was painful. However, fortunately enough, it wasn't a very bad injury. It feels a little pain and swollen after that but it's fine nevertheless, my fingers can still function efficiently haha. 

Sometimes, we just don't learn, if shit didn't happen to us. Actually it is in our DNA, we are highly responsive creatures that we learn through experience, first hand. Then we grow out of it. That is how we work.

I learnt my lesson today, the importance of heeding good advise from veteran, and I'm thankful that it was not so bad. It could have been worse! I shudder at the thought of what could happened to me, broke my finger, lost my hand forever. *shivers* .

So from now on, I will abide by coach's advise adherently, and never be so complacent again.