Well, bound to happen. I managed to pop something in my calf training today. Not really 100% sure how I did it, my and my partner were working some takedowns and guard pulls and as I was being pulled into guard my partner swapped over into a sweep and that was it.
Not that he did anything wrong during the sweep, at this point probably just a combination of fatigue and bad positioning on my part resulting in this specific situation.
Injuries happen during training all the time. Not six months ago I was at the gym when someone managed to get their knee dislocated while working with a partner. He got really lucky and wound up with no permanent damage from what I’ve heard but as much as I try to make sure that I’m not doing things that put me in jeopardy there is still a inherent risk in any martial art.
So that bring up the question – what now.
Well I don’t really want to stop training, and this specific time doesn’t feel like anything more than a pulled muscle so I’ll take some anti-inflammatories, make sure that I keep it iced for a couple of days, and keep moving it so that nothing locks up and hope for the best.