![]() I recall very clearly feeling something pull loose behind my kneecap during class one night. For one thing, none of us had medical insurance of any kind.īut the result was that a lot of the women in karate in those days went out with bad knees. My friend Anne said that she thought she’d cracked her sternum at one point in a tournament, but never got it looked at. At the time there was a great deal of macho emphasis on, “No pain, no gain.” Training through pain was part of the deal – I remember breaking fingers in class and having Sensei pull them straight for me and tell me to go on training. It was a VERY difficult book to write – I think Lester made me re-write it about three times – and it was written under stressful conditions.īack in the ‘70s, not a lot had been studied about the physiology of karate with regards to the different pelvic- and leg-structure of men and women. It’s a little difficult to talk about Dragonsbane. Sharon Tyler, for 20 years a Lecturer at UC Riverside - passed away just before Thanksgiving. ![]() ![]() After writing so recently about the Ladies of Mandrigyn, it was very strange to get the news that one of the original Broad Squad - the women I trained with in Riverside in the '70s - Dr. ![]()
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