In detail:
I was annoyed at the 90 degree stretch, because I can't get my back to be at 90 degrees from my legs. Wondered if locking the legs would improve the stretch, so I tried that.
Next were arm stretches, and then head tilts/rolls. During the last set of rolls, ever time I rolled my head the world kept getting brighter and blurier, and their was this ringing in my ears. I worried briefly that I had some clot stuck in my arteries to my head (which is silly, because the blood pressure on the main artery would blast any clot to smithereens), and then collapsed to the ground. People were talking around me, and things got slightly clearer, and I found that Sensei was standing over me, telling me to breath. I evaculated the mat when I could walk, and I hobbled over to a chair. Everything was a bit glowy, and ringing. I sat there for a while, flexing my legs to help the circulation, and when I was clear I drank some water and joined in the ukemi.
Sensei says it was because I locked my legs, which left the blood down there not circulating.
Don't want to do this again. Will do better in future.
Also worried a few people.
So yeah. What the hell, Wilford.
I only fainted once in class, but it was really scary. It wasn't in karate, though. It was just in regular class, but we had really fun morning exercises, as a whole class. We stood up to do those, and suddenly BAM everyone was gathered around and asking if I was okay. And then the teacher told me to go home because I was sick, and then several people offered to walk me home which was really really nice so he walked me back to my dorm and it was really great except that I was actually really, really, really sick and ended up missing a lot of class and throwing up and that was really annoying....
ReplyDeleteI think that's all I'm going to rant right now so you have a chance to read it all...
~ Tabs
Ick. Sickness is not so fun.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the scary part wasn't that something was wrong with me (aside from the fainting) but that there was nothing wrong with me, so far as I could tell.
If it were caused by sickness, I would be cooler with it, because I know that it's just sickness and will suck for a while, then go away.
But I had no idea what it was! I ticked it off in my head--sickness(which is my main mechanism of fainting these days), tiredness, dehydration, exhaustion... nothing was there. And so I started freaking, or at least as much as you can freak as you are slowly, slowly creeping towards fainting.
That's the other thing, too. It wasn't BAM and finding myself on the ground; I was getting fainter and fainter over the course of nearly a minute, which was really worrisome. Also it took me a while to get back to normal.
Dang, man, I'm glad you're ok.
ReplyDeleteI've fainted once from lack of oxygen after high school PE. I have asthma, and we had been playing basketball in a dusty gym (constuction taking over half of it, you see), so my breathing wasn't really working out so well. I tried using my inhaler on the way down to the locker room, but I ended up fainting right in front of the locker room door.
I don't know how long I was out, but apparently it wasn't long because no one actually realized that I had passed out. I guess it looked like I just tripped and sprawled out in front of the door? It was pretty scary, though, even more so that no one really knew that I had just lost consciousness for a bit. Makes me loose trust in people sometimes. >_<
I don't think I've ever fainted. Felt faint, yeah. Been knocked out, yeah. Gotten concussed and fallen over, yeah, but I don't think I actually got knocked out then.
ReplyDeleteThere was one time when I was working at my computer and the next thing I knew I was in bed and it was dark outside, and I'm not sure WHAT happened, but somehow I got myself from my desk to my bed, so I don't think I fainted.
The time I got knocked out was during soccer, when I trapped a ball with an un-tensed abdomen. Woke up chewing grass with everybody freaking out.
Locking your legs shouldn't make you faint, though. Also, dear, next time you start feeling faint like that SIT DOWN AND BREATHE. Also, don't keep your legs locked for that long. Also, take care of yourself, dear. I'll help you get to stretching right if you help me get back in shape? ;P