Embarrasing Stories

[ShoreiSmurf]

Years ago, we had some new-bies come into class. The upper doshi wanted to show them that we knew our stuff and that they needed to fear us older guys. So, we all break out into our best, flashy kicks. I decided I would show them how dangerous I was and started into a flying side kick. It was going perfect, recieving its desired affect with the new guys: "Ohhh" and "Ahhhh". Just as I landed, my ankle rolled, and SNAP it broke. I was out for 6 weeks

[solar_kid]

Just last night, we were doing jump front snap kicks or something against the bag. We have a slick tile floor, and every once in a while, feet can slide along the floor without finding purchase. That happened when I came down from my jump, and I landed square on my derrier. Only my pride was injured. heh

[KaratekaAndy]

Just last night, we were doing jump front snap kicks or something against the bag. We have a slick tile floor, and every once in a while, feet can slide along the floor without finding purchase. That happened when I came down from my jump, and I landed square on my derrier. Only my pride was injured. heh

Lol the amount of times I've done that is beyond counting

[CheekyMusician]

I'd not been training 'cause of Uni and other commitments and went back to class after a break of about 8 or 9 months. It was approaching a club grading, and one of the guys who was about to sit for his 7th Kyu asked our Sensei to go over Heian Nidan. I'd only ever sat my 9th Kyu because gradings are held on a Saturday which is when I work, but knew Heian Nidan, so joined in with the rest of the class.

Anyway, our Sensei started shouting at the club for doing it wrong and came up and stood beside me and said something along the lines of, "She's the only one who managed to do it right and she's only a 9th Kyu and hasn't even trained for months, so the rest of you should have no excuses!" Then he told me well done and gave me a grin, and I was rather chuffed since I have a little bit of a crush on him.

Anyway, he was so annoyed at the class making a mistake in Heian Nidan that he decided we were all going to do Kihon kata (Taikyoku Shodan) instead. I must have done that kata hundreds of times, and our Sensei even announced (for the benefit of any newbies and the kids): "turn left with a gedan barai, " but for some reason, I turned right. Anyway, he just happened to be looking at me at this point and saw this and shouted out to the whole club, "Erm...other left, wee one! Wait a minute, everyone...it seems someone is having a bit of a problem telling their lefts from their rights!" Everyone turned to look as he walked over to me and picked up my left hand and said, "this is your left," and picked up my right hand saying, "this is your right. Now do you need a bit of practice getting used to that concept?"

So much for me impressing him with my Heian Nidan, and of course, the rest of the class were by this point trying to stifle their giggles and as he walked away, he turned back around and said, "and wait a minute...are you not at Uni? They must accept anyone these days!"

I felt like a right eejit!

[Sohan]

Hmm...

I demonstrated Penpo instead of Penpi in a kid's class belt test demonstration as an examiner. The entire dojo saw me demonstrate the wrong kata.

Split my pants in class because I had used bleach on my first Juka gi. Didn't realize until after class when I had been wearing dark underwear.

Demonstrating a roundhouse kick for the children, I lost my balance and fell flat on my keister. They were quite amused.

While working on focus mitt punches moments after receiving a promotion, I let loose a good strong punch that ripped the buckled mitt from the wrist of my partner and sent the mitt flying across the room and hitting our senior black belt square in the face. And just to outdo myself, I managed to do it again on the next punch. Surprisingly I lived to recount this story.

And yet I continued on....

Respectfully,

Sohan

[ebff]

We were bored during a fencing training session so I suggested we try Kendo - with metal sabres and no protection on the left (or right if you're LHed) hand. Twas much fun until said unprotected hand was hit. I still have the bloodstains (they won't come out or maybe I should try and wash harder) but the scar has somewhat disappeared which is strange.

Since then the instructor screams at anybody who grabs their sabre with two hands

Again during a fencing tournament I somehow by luck got to the eighth finals and was against this guy who seemed both bigger and faster than me. First point he attacked me with loads of aggressivity. I kinda got scared and for the remaining of the match I wasn't fencing, I was kinda hitting as if I was trying to defend my life. Result: match stopped 8 times for a minute to let him recover from various wrist and other injuries provided by yours truly, and I broke a blade on him as well. Embarassment when my coach came up to me after I won the match and told me it was a miracle I hadn't gotten a yellow card or been disqualified, and I shouldn't be very proud (the other guy was looking at me with fear clutching his now almost useless wrist). I most definitely wasn't proud!

Last during a team event, we were up against a really crap team (which incidently had a woman in it since they didn't have enough women for a female team). Everybody let the girl get some points cos she was really useless but I just let my match be over as quickly as possible with just direct (fast) hits on the head every point, and she looked really unhappy afterwards. We may have won by points, but I feel I lost morally.