Calling all Martial Artists

I do Muay Thai and going to start BJJ. I was told not to spar by the instructor or BJJ but we shall see.

Well I spend about 2 hours on Saturday practicing take downs and full on grappling, so I guess I have my answer. I am sore as hell though.

I started back a few months ago to Tae Kwon Do in which I hold a black belt. I have no restrictions. In the time I've been back I've done full contact sparring with pads, light contact sparring without pads, and a gazillion crunches. I have to admit I'd still rather do crunches than push-ups.

My endurance is back up, and since I go to a new school no one knows that I ever had the surgeries. I am treated just like all the other black belts.

Awesome. I could stand to do a few thousand crunches or so... and a few thousand push-ups... and some weight training... etc.

I do a ton of hand stand pushups, pushups and situps, who does crunches?! lol ( I never do crunches in crossfit wods) For sit ups I use a Rogue Abmat 2, saves your back.

Hand stand push ups? Impressive. I can barely do regular push ups. Of course, I could barely do regular push ups when I was in decent shape.

Well do them on the knees for now, no need to be a hero '-)

The key to doing normal ones is to just do it this way. Here are 2 options. When I train in Muay Thai we did them this way, I think it is harder but you might think it helps. You do one then put your knees down and stretch while kneeling and arms extended on matt, go back up then do 2, stretch, then 3, repeat until you do 10 or 12. It gets harder with the stop in between but was how we trained.

At Crossfit they had me start doing them this way after my proctocolectomy because it felt like my incision was being ripped open doing them normal. I would do normal ones in sets of 5 with 4 in each set and a much needed minute or two break in between. I did them daily that way.

Now if you can't do them even on the knees the best way to start is to take a chair or low wall or Plyo box, maybe 18" one and use that for your hands and do them that way, more on an incline.

Now to get into hand stand push ups you do sort of the same thing. Isn't that hard to work your way up. If you have a bench near by put your feet on it all the way back of it, then put your hands on the ground, try to form a pyke position or as straight up and down you can get your back and head and push up that way with your lower half on the bench if that makes sense.

When you want to do full HSPU you put yourself up against the wall and just hold the position (back against the wall not front). Try to do 3 sets with a count of 10. Wrap your wrists if you think you need extra support. When you can eventually go down you can put a bumper plate or 2 under your head that will help , like having training wheels. I use an abmat or 2 abmats. Whatever it takes to start out.

I am 10 months post takedown. I return to BJJ at 4 months post op and attended crossfit level one certification course at 7 months post op. although it was tough in the beginning my strength and stamina has come back strong. Crossfit has really improved my core strength which I believe protects the new plumbing system well. I have had no ill repercussions from all the grappling at all except for the ego check when I first stepped back on the mat. I am on course to getting my brown belt in the next couple months! It CAN be done!

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What type of shield? I rolled the other night (Bjj) and felt I can handle it, no issues. I just have a tender spot on my hips so the guard hurts, not so much where my stoma is. I have been doing crossfit for 1.5 years, I went back to CF 2 months post op. I was stuck at 140 dead lift for 7 months, I am at 175 now, my PR was 225. It is weird but my squats post op are lower than preop (no rectum club).

Anyway, I would hope the more my muscles build up the more rolling and sparing I an do.

Anyone do any training while they had their ostomy?

I don't see why you can't do anything with an ostomy. When I was going to have a temp or thought I would have a perm a friend told me about this http://www.ostomyarmor.com/

I'll be the first to admit that I didn't want to do anything with my ostomy. I didn't really even want to leave the house (and I didn't most of the time). The most I could bring myself to do was play Rock Band.

Though I do play the drums... on expert... vigorously.

Sparred for the first time in 4 years this past Saturday. Wore a torso protector, which had the added benefit of kind of making me feel like Batman. All in all things went pretty well, though I've lost a step or two (for now).

Here is a picture of me doing my form in my first tournament in 10 years. I placed 3rd overall. I wish I could have posted one of my sparring pictures, but it is on the wall at the gym. I have earned the reputation as being on of the top sparrers in my gym only 3 months after my return.

I sparred full on in BJJ other day. I was nervous at first but I was in a kimora pretty much and a knee right on my pouch full pressure. I was fine actually so I am not even worried about it.

I am getting ready to train for Olympic Weightlifting competition. Been Oly lifting for almost 2 years so pretty excited to see what I can do without a sphincter since that is a key to lifting, a strong one!