Bloody knees

Copious amounts of blood was spilled on the mat today, all of it mine. While doing shikko ho (knee walking), my almost healed blisters from last Saturday opened up and before I knew it, I had patches of blood on my dogi and spots of blood on left on the mat.

As soon as I noticed how bad the blood was, I asked The General if I could stop and he handed me a rag. I then cleaned the blood off the mat while the other students finished the shikko ho practice. There were a few strange looks from the other students, probably wondering why the hell I was bleeding.

I was thinking about going to class tonight, but I think I'll skip class for a few days and try to let my knees heal.