Kobe Bryant's Shoulder Injury
I had a great week this past week, and I was even more excited about getting back on the mats today for jiu-jitsu. I woke up this morning feeling great, the sun was shining bright in Columbus and I had just finished a stretching session that left me feeling like a billion bucks.
Today couldn’t have gone better and then, the unthinkable happened…I suffered a pretty devastating shoulder injury. I could have gotten down, but my Kinetic Train of Thought refused to get down, in spite of the deep, breath taking excruciating pain that I still feel when I move my shoulder.
When an athlete experiences injury, it can be detrimental not only to an athlete’s physical health and strength, but to their mental health and strength as well. Sport injuries contribute a lot to an athlete’s physical development and mental toughness. There are two ways that injuries will evolve and develop any athlete:
- Teach a specific Principle
- Develop a specific Characteristic
What’s The Principle?
Whenever we are injured there is a certain principle or lesson that we are meant to learn when injuries happen. These principles are meant to
- make us wiser and teach us more efficient ways to perform certain techniques or
- allow for us to experience certain scenarios that we may want to avoid in the future
What’s The Characteristic?
- Patience
- Resilience
- Perseverance
Keep On Moving…
So now we are able to truly understand why injuries happen, whether they are “sport” injuries or “life” injuries. Instead of choosing to get down and ask “Why Me?” We should always ask ourselves What’s the principle and what’s the characteristic?
This will not only improve our ability to recover but it will help us to always Keep Moving Forward!
Train hard, help somebody and recover fast!
“10 Laws Strong!”
-Rob “The Kinetic Guru”
P.S. I’ll do my best to recover fast from my shoulder injury.
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