As per usual, I’m getting tweaked muscles all over the place, but still trying to keep up with the youngsters, and getting stuck in. More ruck practice means more stray boots etc, and another sharp twinge in the back.
Once again we move to the scrum machine, and I’m feeling a bit more comfortable there, and get a bit of a better position when setting up, manage to shove the machine back a bit, and feel strong whilst doing it. The problematic muscle in my back has no effect on my scrum positioning, or driving through, can’t even feel it, so it’s nice to be able to work freely as such.
Another team run to finish, and again, in the defence, but once again, a few more people about, so we had a few to oppose. I decided that I was going to hassle the 9 as much as possible, and I think I managed to fluster him a little which was nice, he took it in good spirits though.
This time however, I didn’t drag myself to the shower! I walked, with semi-reasonable mobility! My body was beginning to get used to physical activity, but still rather battered, and still woke up very sore. Worse still, my back started tightening up, and wasn’t getting better as the days went by. It was an off week in terms of games, but it just kept getting worse. Managed to get a recommendation for a good physio/sports injury type, and booked myself in. I skipped the following weeks training (so I’ll not bother doing another post on it!) and went in on the Friday to have some acupuncture in the problematic twinging muscle, and gua sha, which is Chinese for evil metal scraping device (well, it probably is). There was a game on the Saturday, but they’d already told me to just take it easy, so no pressure to recover. A few days later, and my back felt better than it has in a long while! The suspicion is years of poor sleeping position has caused the issue, but now I am working to improve that, so hopefully it’ll improve, and not repeat as often.
As suggested earlier, the internet is full of kind hearted and connected strangers. Being a bit of a rugby stats geek, had led me to being in contact with a few folk, including the https://twitter.com/thedeadballarea who’s kindly hosted some of my ruck stats work on his website https://www.thedeadballarea.com/ . When I posted up that was getting back to rugby, and was going to be at prop, he kindly linked in a number of very experienced front row. Suddenly I was connected, and given lots of very good advice by a lot of kind folk. I’m hoping to be able to take on as much as possible, and keep asking them questions! Plan on going slowly, but I intend to get reasonably good at this propping malarky!
*Tiny feet - I’m actually starting to get itchy feet myself here, I want to get coaching, but still waiting on my DBS clearance.
This was a bit of a reality check on our numbers, the ultimate test in a way… first training day with rain! It was actually a pretty good turnout, surprisingly so, and clearly the rugby gods favoured us, since it stopped raining just before practice, so was fairly nice to train in. Still doing simple practices and games, but it’s clear that most the children are really enjoying themselves, which is great to see.
**********!!!!!!!!!! Please! Anyone with any tips, advice, hints, ideas, suggestions etc etc for playing prop, please feel free to comment, either here, or tweet me. These are historical posts for now, so I’m playing prop now and loving it, but am happy for any advice I can get! Or if you know someone that could help, please link them in.!!!!!!!!!!!!************
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