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Aug. 29th, 2016 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSo, I did something to my knee and it's being all annoyingly twingy. It hurts, quite a bit, to bend.
Now here's the interesting thing: I can still dance, with very little pain --strathspeys have almost no issue, the only thing that really sucks is pas de basque. It's something about the fact that I have spent so much time really hyperfocusing on my legs and how to make my footwork absolutely perfect. I have good enough technique that I have to be hurt pretty damn significantly before it gets roughed up. My legs _want_ to do a good strathspey.
(And boy howdy, do I love me a good strathspey. That is by far the most fascinating part of becoming a Scottish dancer, the switch that happened at some point from "this is slow and boring" to "this is elegant and powerful and AWESOME". I think it came concurrent with realizing that you can move further on a strathspey step than skipchange, if you're doing it right.)
Anyways, the funny thing to me is that I will dance just fine, and then walk off the floor with a pronounced limp. This is something I've been doing for years and years. I honestly don't know how much of the limp is a psychosomatic affectation, and how much is my actual limping. But when one of my legs is twinging (especially the right one), I limp on it. I think some of it is a subconscious trying to avoid hurting it worse. I could certainly power through and not appear to be limping, but that's probably worse for my body in the long run. Stoicism is boring.
So yes. Knee is twingy. This means I have a (possibly fake) limp. Dancing mostly unaffected. Stairs are sad-face. I am keeping it wrapped and trying to be as gentle as I possibly can --I would be more motivated to be kind to it if it hadn't come on completely randomly. It almost feels like if my knee would just *crack* it would be completely fine.
Apparently being old means your body stops working. I find this entirely unreasonable.
~Sor
MOOP!
Now here's the interesting thing: I can still dance, with very little pain --strathspeys have almost no issue, the only thing that really sucks is pas de basque. It's something about the fact that I have spent so much time really hyperfocusing on my legs and how to make my footwork absolutely perfect. I have good enough technique that I have to be hurt pretty damn significantly before it gets roughed up. My legs _want_ to do a good strathspey.
(And boy howdy, do I love me a good strathspey. That is by far the most fascinating part of becoming a Scottish dancer, the switch that happened at some point from "this is slow and boring" to "this is elegant and powerful and AWESOME". I think it came concurrent with realizing that you can move further on a strathspey step than skipchange, if you're doing it right.)
Anyways, the funny thing to me is that I will dance just fine, and then walk off the floor with a pronounced limp. This is something I've been doing for years and years. I honestly don't know how much of the limp is a psychosomatic affectation, and how much is my actual limping. But when one of my legs is twinging (especially the right one), I limp on it. I think some of it is a subconscious trying to avoid hurting it worse. I could certainly power through and not appear to be limping, but that's probably worse for my body in the long run. Stoicism is boring.
So yes. Knee is twingy. This means I have a (possibly fake) limp. Dancing mostly unaffected. Stairs are sad-face. I am keeping it wrapped and trying to be as gentle as I possibly can --I would be more motivated to be kind to it if it hadn't come on completely randomly. It almost feels like if my knee would just *crack* it would be completely fine.
Apparently being old means your body stops working. I find this entirely unreasonable.
~Sor
MOOP!