Gloi Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Our instructor is very strict and gruff. If anyone leaves their mobile phones on in their bags while the class is on, and the phone goes off he goes spare with them. We had a grading on wednesday night. Halfway through one group of people doing their basics for the grading a phone went off. You could see everyone looking around thinking 'Somebody is going to be for it now!' and checking for their phones in alarm. The instructor was glaring around looking who it was when he realised it was his own phone! We all cracked up it was just so funny. His assistant will never let him forget it, I'm sure.
aefibird Posted November 2, 2003 Posted November 2, 2003 LOL, that's very funny. I bet he'll ALWAYS remember to turn it off in the future! Heh heh, I bet you can get some mileage out of that one - keep reminding him of it for a good while... "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
Darce Posted November 2, 2003 Posted November 2, 2003 Mohahaha!!! Shukokai Karate, Orange belt ( 7. kyu)
Gloi Posted November 2, 2003 Author Posted November 2, 2003 It's always good to have some ammunition for a future date, though whether I'd ever be brave enough to use it myself is questionable. Both the instructor and his assistant have memories like elephants and everything is accumulated to be used against you later. The other day an incident was brought up which had happened to one of the (now) senior black belts after a training session twenty years ago. (He was a brown belt at the time and was helping a visiting top sensei reverse his car out of the car park when he managed to direct him into backing it into the wall) I do think there is good humour behind it all but boy , they can't resist a dig at any opportunity.
stl_karateka Posted November 2, 2003 Posted November 2, 2003 We have a rule in our school that if you drop your weapon you have to do 25 pushups for every black belt in the place --- usually there are at LEAST 3. I was the one of the first ones in the dojo on one occasion and I saw my instructor finishing up some push-ups...I saw the nunchucks beside him and I kinda smirked --- that's awesome --- his own rule, noone else there, and will still do the pushups! KarateForums.com Sempai
Ben Posted November 2, 2003 Posted November 2, 2003 You really do have to respect your instructor more after seeing that... again, the age old question... would YOU do that if it happened to YOU? .. and be true to it? ...
aefibird Posted November 3, 2003 Posted November 3, 2003 We have a rule in our school that if you drop your weapon you have to do 25 pushups for every black belt in the place --- usually there are at LEAST 3. I was the one of the first ones in the dojo on one occasion and I saw my instructor finishing up some push-ups...I saw the nunchucks beside him and I kinda smirked --- that's awesome --- his own rule, noone else there, and will still do the pushups! Wow! That's amazing - soooo much respect to the guy. I think it's great he stuck to his own rule, even though no-one else was there. If we were truly honest with ourselves, then I think that most people wouldn't have done that, even if we like to think we would have! "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
Darce Posted November 3, 2003 Posted November 3, 2003 Luckily we don´t have any weapons in my style. Shukokai Karate, Orange belt ( 7. kyu)
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