i sprained my knee getting slammed from guard, oops :P

I've been wrestling a while now in addition to BJJ and quite frankly I admit it, it scares the hell out of me every time I get slammed. How common are broken necks in wrestling (Highschool style). I have no neck problems and can bridge on my forehead absolutely fine and everything but after seeing a couple paralyzed people at the hospital I do my community service at (not from wrestling, mostly car accidents) it is scaring the hell out of me that I may end up like that and wrestling consequently stopped being fun and I got way worse because now I play everything way to cautious. I am just curious if anyone has solid statistics about how likely it is for guys getting their neck snapped in wrestling accidents.


If you're scared you'd better not do it at all. That's when folks tend to get hurt.


I don't remember learning breakfalls in wrestling.


I think what it is, is that it isn't often covered as its own 'subject.' You don't have a coach say, "today, we work on break-falls." As you learn and practice throws and such its covered almost informally as you go (and no one actually says "breakfall"). After a while, you get a good sense of it. Sometimes folks who jump in when they are 'older,' like in HS, haven't 'absorbed' this and fall awkwardly.

wow, i just got slammed on my head last friday during submission pracrtice ay Pancrase's Lab here in Yokohama. I was about to get armbarred during sparring and i just powered out of it, my partner responded by locking and slamming my head into the mat, pretty hard. I heard something crack and thought I was fucked. For two days I could not move my neck at all. Now I have mobility back, but it still hurts when I look sideways and I can hear it go snap, crackle n' pop every time y rotate the neck. Is this just from inflamation, or should I get it checked? Ive been sitting it out these past few days, but am anxious to get back to trainning.

Now I have mobility back, but it still hurts when I look sideways and I can hear it go snap, crackle n' pop every time y rotate the neck. Is this just from inflamation, or should I get it checked? Ive been sitting it out these past few days, but am anxious to get back to trainning.

Get it checked. ASAP. Pain within normal range of motion means something is awry. Especially if you GOT SLAMMED ON YOUR DAMNED HEAD.

wow, i just got slammed on my head last friday during submission pracrtice ay Pancrase's Lab here in Yokohama. I was about to get armbarred during sparring and i just powered out of it, my partner responded by locking and slamming my head into the mat, pretty hard. I heard something crack and thought I was fucked. For two days I could not move my neck at all. Now I have mobility back, but it still hurts when I look sideways and I can hear it go snap, crackle n' pop every time y rotate the neck. Is this just from inflamation, or should I get it checked? Ive been sitting it out these past few days, but am anxious to get back to trainning.

Neck injuries are no joke. As a rule if it aint normal get it checked out.

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i didnt really learn any break falls in wrestling. however we trained our necks for flexability and strenght constantly. i cant say i ever saw anyone with a serious neck injury in my 10 years or wrestling, me included.

Some people in my gym are getting a little bit stack happy. I mean by all means put it on but bending you right over backwards and seriously straining the neck seems a little OTT when having a 'light roll'.

Good thread, the last few stacks i received had me thinking the same question

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I think it's clear that if you just start mma, you shall not slam or put any power in your strikes
At the begining the game is purely positionnal, you shall learn the good defensive positions, ie which positions are not going to let your opponent transform you into a bloody pulp

rather to slam an adversary, better to decide that the lifter put the guy back to the ground but that the last one shall release its submission

bottom guy shall learn not to get lifted by grabbing a leg of the lifter, that is position learning

If you work an other way, your class will not last long, soon everybody will be in the hospital

I think most of the injuries that occur in grappeling are in the takedown stage. Once you are on the ground the danger is less severe. Unless you are rolling with a jerk who wants to apply every technique at 100 percent.

You don't need to be "advanced" to do sparring of any sort, but you do need experience and practice prior to doing so so someone doesn't do something ridiculous, like trying to release my guillotine hold through wrenching my pinkie finger.

One kid got his a colarbone broken... or something.... and my mom didnt want to let me go for Wrestling because she knew a guy who was paralysed in Poland , back home.