Things to avoid doing in a Dojo

[senna_trem]

Don't start speaking with a japanese accent.

 

Don't challenge kids younger than you to fights and then when your sensei remprimands you whine "But we're all at the same skill level!"

[June1]

*snicker*

[The Saint]

Go to the kids class and "Dominate" like Krammer. (Seinfield episode where Krammer Takes Karate).

 

Upon entering the dojang/ dojo let out a large keap at the top of your lungs, when people come over to ask what all the commotion is tell them you are fine.

[GhostlySykanRyu]

"Fail to look as though a technique is hurting you when doing partner work. This guarantees that the instructor will come up to show them how to do it, using you as the dummy. "

 

Something similar happened to me. He used me as a test dummy, one of the green belts was to get me in mount, then interlock our legs to apply pressure to my knees. It wasn't successful, so he had a black belt apply the technique on me. It was a better attempt, but since I had seen the technique already, I knew that I just had to keep my legs too ridgid for him to move them. He had a lot of leverage, but still no dice. A few minutes later (and one very sweaty black belt), I was still laying there. That left only one person that could apply the technique...he did, and with a cross choke to boot

 

LOL, 'twas fun to say the least.

[GhostlySykanRyu]

"Fail to look as though a technique is hurting you when doing partner work. This guarantees that the instructor will come up to show them how to do it, using you as the dummy. "

 

Something similar happened to me. He used me as a test dummy, one of the green belts was to get me in mount, then interlock our legs to apply pressure to my knees. It wasn't successful, so he had a black belt apply the technique on me. It was a better attempt, but since I had seen the technique already, I knew that I just had to keep my legs too ridgid for him to move them. He had a lot of leverage, but still no dice. A few minutes later (and one very sweaty black belt), I was still laying there. That left only one person that could apply the technique...he did, and with a cross choke to boot

 

LOL, 'twas fun to say the least.

[June1]

Don't use a bo as a javelin and hurl it randomly.

[Kieran-Lilith]

Don't hit yourself with a bokken in the forehead. A) it hurts. B) it looks really stupid. C) it really does hurt.

[soccerghost]

I watched this one happen. My friend tried to impress this girl with his nunchaku skills and smacked himself in the face. Needless to say she wasn't too impressed

[June1]

That tends to happen often! Not the impressing part, but the hit in the face c/o the nunchaku.

[soccerghost]

too true too true.