Quote Originally Posted by kenyonchris View Post
I had one massage guy tell me I was the only un-massagable person he'd ever massaged. He kept moving me around, telling me to "relax"...I laughed and said that I was as relaxed as I got! I am a COP! We don't relax. I wrote it off to a bad massage guy....but I didn't get around to getting another for several years, before my Defensive Tactics week at the academy (or "hell week" which ends with getting the crap beat out of me) and the guy there said, "wow, you are really hard to massage."
So I don't do it very often.
I have a hard time giving in sometimes too - my tactic is to not think about relaxing per say, but rather to concentrate really hard on feeling a body part that they are not working with - so like when the person is working on my leg and they are at the part where they are moving it all around at the hip joint and I need to give up control of that leg, I concentrate really hard on feeling the tip of my middle finger on the opposite hand.... I think it helps me not work against the masseur.