Basic Injury Prevention

Almost as a follow up to our last article about visible injuries, White Collar Jiu-Jitsu has five easy rules for injury avoidance 101.

Hazmat does a good job of describing some basic safety precautions you should be taking to eliminate or at least mitigate common sources of injury.

The only thing I'd add is, "dont' be stubborn, know when to tap."

Etiquette advice: once you put your mouthguard in, leave it in. Constantly taking your mouthguard out and putting it back in is disgusting - you may as well lick your training partners and the floor.

Also, wearing a mouthguard doesn't excuse you from swallowing. Don't drool all over your partners. Or the floor. You're not 6; have some pride.