EDITED --OMG: today is NOT my day

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NikPreviousAcct

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went to Taekwondo class tonight.
Couldn't get my kicks right.
Couldn't get my stances correct.

We moved on to "circle sparring."

My back kick ended with my on my backside on the ground. I did a back kick with my right leg. My left leg just "happened" to be standing on my pants. My right leg, kicking, caught my pant leg, pulling my other pant leg out from underneath me. I twisted around in the air, landing perfectly, on my ass. Right in front of the school director, too.

Master Culbertson: "Ground: 1, Nik: 0"
Me: "Very funny..."
Master Culbertson: "It's one of those days, ain't it..."

So I just get up and continue fighting.


When Mr. Lagrow was in the circle during "circle sparring," my number was called, so I Kiap and ran in to fight. I duck to avoid is crescent, but he faked me out and came in with a front kick. Only I was too close for him to fully extend. I got his knee powered by his massive quad right to the top of my head.

needless to say, I was out of the fight. Fought to keep my truck on the road getting home, took two excedrine migraine strength, crashed on the futon, and watched RoboCop on TV. Then I decided to post, which is where I am now. :)


Tonight has been eventful --painful needless to say.

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A lifeguard just checked me out. I have a concussion. Yay.

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NaughtyusMaximus

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Ouch.

--I was under the impression that lifeguards in the US didn't have the qualifications needed to determine if someone has a concussion. I'm a lifeguard here in Canada, and all they teach us about the states is that you have lifeguards that can't swim (shallow pools), etc. We aren't trained to diagnose somebody with a concussion here, we can assume (and many times do), but have to either call an ambulance and have a paramedic check the patient out, or make sure they go to a doctor as soon as possible. Its the same idea as pronoucing somebody dead. When their heart is stopped medically, the patient is dead, but until a paramedic arrives on scene and tells me to stop doing CPR, they person is still alive - their heart just isn't pumping on its own. The moral is, you should probably go see a doctor about that tylenol three bruise. ;)

That went a little off topic there, but I just was curious to know about lifeguard training in the US (if you know anything).
 
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NikPreviousAcct

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lifeguards here can swim. What the hell is the point of a drowning lifeguard?!

mmm... logic doesn't abound in Kanada, now does it.

Anyway, Liz says that she can do all that too. She's got the authority over everybody at the pool. Her CPR skills are top notch. Her skills tested on a regular basis and registered with the state (Oregon).
 
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NaughtyusMaximus

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I didn't mean to say that lifeguards don't have medical training. They all have to have that. What I meant to insinuate was that though we have medical training, it definetly isn't up to the level of a doctor (who has spent years in university learning his/her trade). It is always a good idea to seek the best trained person on any single subject, and the fact remains that a doctor will be better trained at medical arts than a lifeguard will.

--About the shallow pool guards (the ones who don't have to be able to swim): I have no real life evidence other than the training videos that I have watched (1/10 being made in America, the rest in Canada), and instructors who have worked as lifeguards both in the states and Canada. What they told me was that in some (not all) states, it is not legally required for lifeguards who are guarding shallow pools to be able to swim in deep water. Since they don't know how to swim *as well* as the deep water guards, they can be paid less. The reasoning behind that I believe, is that there is no point in wasting valuable resources of more highly trained personel in areas where they are not needed. The shallow guards stay in shallow water, so will no ever need to swim in water past their knees (ankles for wading pools). Here in Canada, I know for a fact that all lifeguards must be qualified to the same level, so can guard any point in a pool/waterpark. I have no first hand evidence of how pools are operated in the US, but as far as I know, for many states, this still holds true.

Again, sorry for the deviance from the origonal post. Again, I would like to suggest that you seek a person with higher medical training about your nasty bump.
 
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RGN

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>Anyway, Liz says that she can do all that too. She's got the authority over everybody at the pool. Her CPR skills are top notch. Her skills tested on a regular basis and registered with the state (Oregon).

tested by you perhaps? ;)
 
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andylawcc

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ever watch the Matrix? :)
(just believe! and you can jump over the building and dodge bullets, let alone fast hands.)
 
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