r/judo • u/Doctor-Wayne • 21h ago

General Training Fingernail completely ripped off

Well I had my fingernail ripped off. Completely gone. No not at Judo. I had a large splinter go under my nail at work. Anyway just looking at ideas on what actual training i could still do. I can't even flex any fingers on that hand without the skin pulling on the injury. So far my main idea is just turn up to training and take social media material. Hit me up with some abstract ideas

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u/Substantial_Tooth770 21h ago

Time to work on footsweeps.

My biggest judo development came following a rib separation. I spent around 3 months at each training (5x per week, 1.5-2 hrs) just working ashi-barai solo drills.

When I started randori again I discovered I had a monster tsubame-gaeshi and the ashi-barai training had improved almost everything about my judo.

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u/disposablehippo shodan 18h ago

If you are willing to spend some money, you could get a finger splint that is usually used for broken fingers. Tape that thing up and you could do some light training without putting stress on your injury. I would give it maybe 2 weeks though.

Otherwise, Ukemi and Tandoku-Renchu can be done without using your hands.

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u/Yamatsuki_Fusion sankyu 21h ago

Funny, just came back from a session where hurt my own finger nail. Bruised beneath, didn’t lose it.

Gonna pay attention to this post.

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u/Xklclbtzlkx 21h ago

Tape your nail when you go train. One time my nail got bruised under then in the next training it got ripped off

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u/Yamatsuki_Fusion sankyu 20h ago

Any point in trimming it too? I should have done it before going but I guess I could try now?

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u/IlIlllIIIlllllI shodan 5h ago

bandaid on it then wrap tape over it

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u/Doctor-Wayne 4h ago

Oh it's much worse than that.

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u/firstspearcenturion 20h ago

Good question! I almost took my own fingernail off by gripping a lapel. And yes I trim my nails and file them. Any tips on preventing this?