dhaval

Dhaval put something in his blog recently... I was just going to do excerpts but its all good... so here's the whole thing:

"Wolff’s law is a theory developed by the German Anatomist/Surgeon Julius Wolff (1835-1902) in the 19th century that states that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads it is placed under. If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading. The converse is true as well: if the loading on a bone decreases, the bone will be adapted and become weaker.

I think that this law applies to everything and not necessarily to bones and bone densities. I was watching fight science on National Geographic, which is a very neat show for all the people interested in martial arts. The show basically breaks down all the elements of martial arts, and shows how each technique effects the body and if it is actually as harmful to the opponent as they say it is. The coolest one was the ninjitsu move where one strike can stop your heart. Anyways they were showing how in Mui Thai the kickboxers kick cocnut tree trunks and those leg bones just become stronger over time. This is where Wolff’s Law comes into place.

So, I just wanted to mention how the person’s bone adapts to all the loading it undergoes, in the same manner the human brain and heart also get stronger with more load/stress put on it. Also the following comparision is ironic (don’t know if it si the right word to use). The human bone gets stronger after it breaks as well as the heart becomes stronger once it is broken……………

I have been wanting to write this for a long time but didn’t get around to it. I watched fight science about 2 weeks ago."

I don't know if I was with Dhaval when he watched it, but I remember that episode. It was a very useful episode... It helped me in my quest to sort things out before going back to jujitsu. I need a purpose for being there. Some people do jujitsu just because. I'm not the type of person to do that for anything. I have to have a reason, even if the reason is just "I like it." But I stopped liking jujitsu so I needed to find another reason to continue, and that is that I really admired the control those martial artists had over their bodies, and decided that if for no other reason, I would return so that I could continue to develop that control.

The other thing was this: "The human bone gets stronger after it breaks as well as the heart becomes stronger once it is broken."

It caught my eye because I don't know much about Dhaval, so I don't know if he is referring to a personal situation or not. But it gives me hope all the same, that maybe in time my heart will become stronger.