Thank you, Sir! I was but willing flesh, the real thanks goes to my worthy opponents and thoughtful classmates who rolled tape on my Evo’s and then shared with the class!
For the record, it’s going on 2 weeks and am still recovering. Worst is my hands - the pointer finger of my strong hand is definitely sprained and still swollen, I definitely strained the tendons in both hands, and I have a collection of random aches and pains. My various cuts and minor flesh wounds are mostly healed over. My welts are fading faster than I would have thought. There is a sting in the moment, but they don’t amount to much after that.
I definitely and voluntarily overdid it (self-inflicted, you DON’T have to go that hard), tore myself up like I haven’t been torn up in well over a decade, learned more in less time, and had the best damn time in @SouthNarc’s ECQC class that I’ve had in years.