I was lucky enough to have access to a camera phone hours after the training injury discussed below.
When one coach-spars with a non-fighter who is schooled in a martial art, he is in constant danger of suffering an ego-based injury, while his partner is operating in total safety, safe from all physical injury that is, but highly conditioned by the stilted, scripted version of his art to psychological injury. Just before the injury suffered below [two sprained toes] I said:
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