Worst experience ever?

[bbk2132]

What I love about Oregon is that the schools hate each other - until someone else attacks one of them. Then they're just all Oregonians and thick as thieves. Especially true when the Huskies come to town. By the way, I'm a Trojan. Go PAC-10.

hehe...i'm kind of a Husky. My dad was a Husky, but I like the Cougars too...so i just cheer for whoever has a better chance.

[NightOwl]

it's debatable. grew up in eugene, but going to school in corvallis.

duck by heritage, beaver by association.

when they play each other i just hide somewhere until everybody calms down.

Aye, when the 'Civil War' game comes around I tend to lock the doors and stock up on rations . Fortunately I go to a different Oregon school so I can play the switzerland card if need be....

My worst MA experience was back in my TKD days testing for my third belt. I had to break a board with an ax kick, so I was practicing at home (on a hardwood floor...yeah, I was dropped too many times as a kid) and 'surprise' ended up hurtin' my heel something awful. Needless to say breaking the board later that night was not a plesant experience...

[bushido_man96]

My worst MA experience was back in my TKD days testing for my third belt. I had to break a board with an ax kick, so I was practicing at home (on a hardwood floor...yeah, I was dropped too many times as a kid) and 'surprise' ended up hurtin' my heel something awful. Needless to say breaking the board later that night was not a plesant experience...

Dropped as a child....that's golden!

How did the break go? Did you break the board?

[NightOwl]

My worst MA experience was back in my TKD days testing for my third belt. I had to break a board with an ax kick, so I was practicing at home (on a hardwood floor...yeah, I was dropped too many times as a kid) and 'surprise' ended up hurtin' my heel something awful. Needless to say breaking the board later that night was not a plesant experience...

Dropped as a child....that's golden!

How did the break go? Did you break the board?

It took a couple of goes

[bushido_man96]

My worst MA experience was back in my TKD days testing for my third belt. I had to break a board with an ax kick, so I was practicing at home (on a hardwood floor...yeah, I was dropped too many times as a kid) and 'surprise' ended up hurtin' my heel something awful. Needless to say breaking the board later that night was not a plesant experience...

Dropped as a child....that's golden!

How did the break go? Did you break the board?

It took a couple of goes

I'll bet your heal was quite sore after that one!

[Soo Min]

I just left a terrible instructor. I was under him for several years, and he totally messed up my head.

He treated me very unfairly, called me names, acted very unprofessionally, and always had a lot of criticism but rarely support. He was also extremely controlling and demanding. He put a lot of pressure on me to compete, and I didn't like that. I stopped wanting to compete because of him, but he forced him into competition anyway. Because my parents didn't really know what was going on, they always took my instructor's side.

He favored some other students who were very arrogant and sometimes said cruel things to me. Once in a while I lost my temper and said something back. Though he never punished the other students or asked them to apologize to me, I was always humiliated in front of them.

He would also explode on me for stupid reasons. Once my brother said something erroneous, but I was punished along with my brother, which is comletely unfair. Another time I was punished for being too arrogant. The next day I did not take charge of a class when he was out of the room (long story) because there was another student with a higher rank than mine and I was terrified of being haughty. Instead of the higher rank finding himself in trouble, I was yelled at! It just got worse and worse...

He eventually expelled me, again, for no good solid reason, but I said "Good riddance!"

[bushido_man96]

I just left a terrible instructor. I was under him for several years, and he totally messed up my head.

He treated me very unfairly, called me names, acted very unprofessionally, and always had a lot of criticism but rarely support. He was also extremely controlling and demanding. He put a lot of pressure on me to compete, and I didn't like that. I stopped wanting to compete because of him, but he forced him into competition anyway. Because my parents didn't really know what was going on, they always took my instructor's side.

He favored some other students who were very arrogant and sometimes said cruel things to me. Once in a while I lost my temper and said something back. Though he never punished the other students or asked them to apologize to me, I was always humiliated in front of them.

He would also explode on me for stupid reasons. Once my brother said something erroneous, but I was punished along with my brother, which is comletely unfair. Another time I was punished for being too arrogant. The next day I did not take charge of a class when he was out of the room (long story) because there was another student with a higher rank than mine and I was terrified of being haughty. Instead of the higher rank finding himself in trouble, I was yelled at! It just got worse and worse...

He eventually expelled me, again, for no good solid reason, but I said "Good riddance!"

Wow, that is terrible! I'll give you kudos, though; you stuck around a LOT longer than I would have.

[baronbvp]

NO ONE deserves to be treated that way, not should they allow it to occur. You are paying for your training, and they provide a service to the students. If a dojo doesn't meet your needs or expectations - LEAVE!

[Ziyad]

I've had some pretty bad experiences with a capoeira teacher some time ago. We were training banda's (a sweep kick to floor someone, when someone is on one leg). Some people, for the sake of training the technique or as prevention of getting hurt, didn't resist much and almost let themself fall. Or maybe they were just not agile enough to stay balanced on only one foot.

But the guy who I was practicing this with, couldn't make it work. I, also for the sake of training the technique, resisted as much as possible, so that if he floored me, he would be certain he got it right. I'll admit that I wouldn't have been that stable had I actually been kicking, though.

The thing is, he didn't manage to floor me, even after trying at least 8 times. It was a technique he already should have mastered. So he asked the teacher what he was doing wrong. The teacher approached me and gave me a banda, but instinctively, I resisted again. He didn't manage to floor me on the first try. When I looked at him I saw an inner fire in my teacher's eye and I could clearly see him physically tense. In contrast with this he lightly said 'let's try this again'. So I saw him focusing much more than before and lining up to get his distancing perfect. It was lucky that I knew my teacher well enough: He wouldn't just sweep my leg, he would, if necessary, kick it with tremendous force, even if it would make me limp for a week or more. He attacked with the banda and I did what most people did in the first case: I let myself fall. He must have known, because his leg never touched mine.

My mestre looked at the other student to see if he had noticed. Then, he said with an expression that didn't invite criticism: "that's how you do it."

[baronbvp]

Kooky.