Last Wednesday, Earvin went home from his Taekwondo class and told us that he was injured during their sparring session where he was paired with a blue-belter, bigger and older than him. He couldn’t walk properly due to the pain in his left leg. Actually, a week ago, he already told us of a similar incident in which he was also hurt during a sparring session with the same boy,and he mentioned that, that boy, though was a blue-belter, didn’t really know how to land his kicks properly. His Dad and I just dismissed it as part of his training. And again, last Wednesday, when he went home with pain on his leg, we were again about to ignore it, and just told him that it’s just part of his martial arts training.
But we were alarmed when the next day, he called me up in the office and told me that he couldn’t walk, and couldn’t go down the stairs of our house. I told him to put ice pack and to rest his leg and not to move too much and to just stay in his room. My husband called up his Taekwondo instructor to inform him of what happened. His instructor who was sick last Wednesday didn’t see what actually happened during the sparring session. The only present were the black-belters in his class. So, when my husband told him what happened, he sounded surprised and he promised to talk to the boy.
Then, the next day, Friday, I brought him with me to my office so that I can bring him to an orthopedic doctor for x-ray. Fortunately, there were no fractures shown in the X-ray results, but there was a thickening of bones which the doctor wanted to investigate further. He gave instructions for blood tests to rule out infection, and he said that if it came out normal, the thickening of bones could still be caused by the muscle swelling brought by the impact of the trauma. Earvin was given pain reliever and topical ointment to be applied after a cold compress on the injured leg. We’re still waiting for the blood test results as well as the official results of the X-ray, but so far, Earvin can walk almost normally, but there’s still pain whenever he walks long distances. Hopefully, he continues to improve, otherwise, he’ll have difficulty commuting to school, and we’ll have to leave the house really early just so he can ride with us.
As for the boy who did it to my son, the instructor said that he talked to the boy and was told that it was an accident, and he denied hitting my son on the lower left leg. He insisted that his knee just landed on my son’s left foot. But of course, we knew that it wasn’t true, because the tremendous pain that my son felt wouldn’t have happened if he was just hit on his left foot. My husband ordered the instructor to carefully watch out for his students and to make sure that there’s no mismatch whenever he paired them for sparring sessions.
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We've been through similar incidents with someone.
I took the opportunity to talk with other parents and it turned out that more kids were injured by the same boy.
The other parents agreed to accompany me to the teacher and then the teacher got a red head and didn't deny the boy did so.
Discipline, impulse control, some kids can't learn it properly and they are not good studentmaterial.
I hope your son gets well soon.
Hello, thanks for sharing your own experience, and I think you're right, some kids just don't have it, because my son mentioned that there's another boy in the class who was also slightly injured by the same boy responsible for my son's own injury. we'll monitor this and will make sure that it won't happen again. Thanks again!