MA Goofs & Blunders

[ramymensa]

That's a great idea

 

Estonia in in the north (from Romania) and I guess it can get really cold. And without a proper heating system it's tragic. Try not to catch a cold from training barefoot. I guess some problems could arise and for the girls some of the problems are quite big. Good luck with your little dojo. It would be great to train there and in few years you could teach there. Have you considerred being a teacher?

[granmasterchen]

when i first joined class i was about 12 or so, and i was really big, so naturally i had a lot of strengh and power, yet little skill. So one day we were holding the kicking pads, and the instructor wanted us to show how intense we could be by letting out a loud kia and kicking the pad hard. Well the individiual holding the pad was an older man and when i went up i let loose with my strongest back leg roundhouse and screamed a kia, well as it happened i missed the pad and cracked him right in the face, the old man went down and his glasses flew across the room.....needless to say we never did that exercise again, yet that man preceeded to beat me up for the next year until he quit.......

 

Another thing that happened later in my MA career (after i developed control) I managed to tear the crotch and back out of my pants on several occasions.....those were some embarissing occasions

 

also after i became advanced I was looked upon as an individual with alot of skill and many looked up to me, well our class had a hard wood floor, so after years of training i had some nice callouses on my feet, well for some reason some of the old men that used the building the night before decided to wax the floor and it was really slippery, i didn't realise until i went to show off on some high kicks and ended up on my back,.......

 

I was sparring my instructor one time, he threw me to the floor and everytime that i tried to get up he would charge and kick at me, so i just kept doing rolls to get out of the way, well i could finally run no more, so while i was doing a backwards shoulder roll he kicked at me and i adjusted my weight on to my head and ended up spinning on my headin a circle with my legs in the air, so i was instinctively kicking in the air since they weren't on the floor....well there was a pause and i rolled up into a fighting stance to see my instructor wiping his face, ...* I HAD KICKED HIM TWICE!!!!* both of my feet by accident caught him in the face, everyone was amazed and since that day, i had a legend-like status in the class, my instructor stopped the fight and told me good job or something.....that was the start of a legendary status that evolved from reflexive reactions from training that resulted in an accidental yet very effective techneque.....

[granmasterchen]

Also there was a tourney where an individual lost grip on his nunchuku and it went flying into the crowd, and another where the judge got hit, regardless, the individuals didn't do too well.

 

also in class we did bo training, where we would thrust the bo out and catch the end of it , well alot of us would not catch it in time at first and some even sent the bos into the walls where we have some nice sized holes

 

i was doing a jump double kick one day to show what i learned in class, and my shoe flew across the street.....that got some laughs

[Niko]

I just hate it when your sparring with a partner and there are people sparring with partners too around u, and all of a sudden you start to smell something really nasty , its quite embarrasing for everyone because although nobody says anything they are thinking of who could have possibly farted.

[capn_midnight]

letting my instructor cheat me on pay. that was pretty embarressing, made me feel like a chump

[mArTiAl_GiRl]

Have you considerred being a teacher?

 

Yes, exactly! I actually already am a teacher in my Dojo, I'm the only one in Estonia who has a belt in Shito-ryu and I brought it to Estonia.

 

But I want to be a real teacher with my own Dojo and own club and shito-ryu style!

 

btw, you can't immagine how cold it is in Estonia during winters,

 

It's VERY cold

[granmasterchen]

i saw an individual somehow manage to knock himself out with a kick.....it was odd

[superfighter]

this didn't happen to me but it was dam funny,

 

This guy after our Tae Kwon do class walked out without his shoes on,

 

only to come back in about a minute after to get them, lol i think only i noticed, lucky for him.

 

i mean how does someone not realise they aint got there shoes on?

[battousai16]

it was an open work out, and my instructor was demonstrating a ssang jyel bang (nunchaku) form for me, and the bearing snapped when he was doing an over head strike and the handle flew straight in the wall right above the spectator chair luckily, not many people were there and the chair was empty sorry, i've never had the opportunity to use that one and i really wanted too...

 

also, i ordered a new chang bang (staff) last night and my instructor was telling me this story about how he ordered a new staff and he took it out to try it out and i guess there was a knot in the center because he did this downward strike and before it even hit the ground it pulled apart and the other half flew across the room. i forget why he told me, something about refunds... whatever. i thought it was funny

[granmasterchen]

i went to a keith hackney seminar back in the day....we were testing how well we could sense things from behind....we had individuals throwing frisbies at us from behind and we would try to feel it coming and swing the nunchuku back and hit the frisbie.....well one of the instructor's wives was doing this drill, missed the frisbie and knocked herself out,,....so did alot of other students

 

also there was this tournament several years ago where a good friend of mine and fellow BB was doing breaking, he had 4 cement slabs and they were lit on fire....he approached performed the break, but...he had hairy arms and some of the fuel splashed onto his arm, well his arm was lit up...that's ok, we were prepared....we had a mini fire extinguisher....well this purple belt ran out there and proceeded to hose him down.,....but nothing came out, my friend is on fire and this lady can't get the extinguisher to work....well later when my friend was safely put out and lost alot of arm hair, we found out that the purple belt, wendy had tried out the extinguisher earlier to make sure that it would work.,...well the problem was that it was a one use fire extinguisher.........oh boy...soon after she left our class.