Martial Arts anecdotes.

[AngelaG]

A thread for your true stories. Sad, happy, funny, embarrassing experiences etc.

[Aefibird]

Most of mine are embarassing.

Like the time I tripped, fell down the dojo fire escape and cut my head open.

Or the time I split my trousers demonstrating jodan mawashi geri to a white belt.

Or the time I passed out downstairs in the bar (our dojo is above a pub) - before I started drinking!

Or the time I threw up in the dojo during an intense sparring sesh.

Or the time I was practising kata and ended up gedanbarai-ing the mirrors (oops).

Or the time when I used to train in Aikido and ended up in a 'compromising' position on the floor with my (male)uke *blush*.

I have other (mostly unembarassing) stories, but I'll save them for a later date when I've more time to type.

[RigsVille]

Rachael, I would stop there if I were you!

The only embarrassing experience I can recall (must be either my old age) is almost passing out after a really hard training session and having to lie down in the middle of the dojo.

[trevor35]

I train with both my children who did a embarrassing and funny thing. We were going up and down the dojo...as you do...doing a few Mawashigeri's. We all raised or legs in unison and were ready for the flick when a sound of gas being released was heard (rather loudly). When Sensei asked who had created the noise both my two looked at each other and both pointed at each other at the same time. They both ended up doing a few press ups.

[AngelaG]

LOL!

Welcome to the board Trevor!

[Andy]

Sad
When I first started teaching, my first class had a guy who kind of creeped me out a bit.
He didn't work, as he'd fallen off a roof and suffered some brain damage.
He creeped me out, because he was always looking at me, or following me about.
Kind of hard to explain, but he thought I was the Bees knees for some reason.
I got to the stage where I asked my instructor to reorganise the classes so he was elsewhere.
Even then, he would drift over to watch me for some reason.
A few weeks later, we heard he had fallen out of bed and died.
Makes me wish I had been more tolerant.

Happy
My first tournament win, which was the Nationals in 1992.
Worked for it all summer and it went a charm.

Funny
I was in a kickboxing match, with someone I should have been all over on a bad day, but I barely scraped by on points.
My coach was berating me, then burst out laughing when, after the match, I started unstrapping the leg weights I'd forgotten to remove before the fight.

Embarassing
Opened my first club in Feb 1995.
We had a set format for new intakes of students, and would usually demonstrate a side kick, using a senior student with good abs.
Unfortunately, I was too busy talking to the new students, and hit my uke in the solar plexus.
If he could have breathed, he would have puked. It was a bad one.
Out of the whole intake, only two returned.

Welcome Trevor35

[andym]

Sorry to hear about the chap that died!

Some cool anecdotes there though Andy. Loving the leg weights one!

[trevor35]

Thank you both for the Welcome

[colleentigerpants]

O My god! It's funny to listen to them, not to endure them.

Andy forgetting the ankle weights hmm? If I'm not mistaken your also the fellow who ran up the hills in greece to - Impress the ladies . I think you were just showing off again! That is quite funny

I've never had my pants split, thank god, either.

The most embarassing, er or most scary? story was when we had this complete perv (and I know the girls will know what I mean) in our University Tae Kwon do club. He would aallwwaayyss check out the butts on us girls and it was obvious.

One time when we were practising forms, My friend burst out laughing and told me to look at him- pointing ;D, and he had a complete boner LOL. You couldn't even hide it if he wanted to! Well I couldn't stop myself and I burst out as well. This idiot totally knew that we saw it and he was completely red.

At the next water break he took off!. Thank god someone eventually complained and a few months later he was asked to leave.