sensei8 Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 Pertaining to the martial arts....What makes you cry?What makes you smile?What makes you say "WOW"?What makes you pause?What makes you angry?What makes you laugh?What makes you think?What makes you try?What makes you surrender?What makes you respect?Please feel free to add your own questions to mine. **Proof is on the floor!!!
datguy Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 What makes you cry? The ignorance of so many towards the martial arts hahaWhat makes you smile? Seeing someone "click" one day and having a new understandingWhat makes you say "WOW"? McDojosWhat makes you pause?That why did I do that moment.What makes you angry? Taking a while to understand a new conceptWhat makes you laugh? Funny mistakesWhat makes you think? PhilosophyWhat makes you try? My love for the martial artsWhat makes you surrender? Only I am in control of surrendering so I don'tWhat makes you respect? Anyone with a mutual respect for all martial arts “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
GeoGiant Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 What makes you cry? I usually don't, my parents raised a robot, LOL. In the last 10 years I've cried 3 times - when my golden retriever died (wife had him when we met), when my lab died (pound rescue, he was 10, died at 12) and when my cocker spaniel died (pound rescue, he was 9, died at 17).What makes you smile? I smile a lot but really makes me smile is when I see someone exceed their expectations. I workout with one guy that is really over-weight but he never gives up or makes excuses, he just keeps his feet moving - I love that. What makes you say "WOW"? When I see someone march to the beat of their own drum, un-phased by the judgements of others. The younger they are, the more I think WOW. What makes you pause? When I question ones intentions. What makes you angry? People that take advantage because they can. In class, at work, public gathering, etc, stepping on someone because you can is despicable. What makes you laugh? Sorry... potty humor and uncomfortable situations. What makes you think? When I see someone consumed by their circumstances. It could be dealing with a cancer diagnosis, a recent divorce, ailing child, etc. What makes you try? A goal. If I commit to something for a friend, something at work, or something at the dojo i will follow through. This quality is one of the positive things about being hard headed, LOL.What makes you surrender? I'm not sure I ever have. I don't mean that in a tough guy way. i don't come from a close family and I don't have any children so I haven't really been faced with a situation where I had to accept the results without having any say-so in the matter.What makes you respect? I respect consistency. I respect someone that accepts someone elses choices without understanding why they made those choices.
shadowspawn Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 1. Ker ah tee2. That poor sensei/sempai who has to get punched in the face by a white belt in-training (unless it's me LOL)3. People who can jump up, launch 3 powerful and on-target kicks before hitting the ground4. Getting kicked in the crotch5. Getting kicked in the crotch6. Other people getting kicked in the crotch7. Kata8. Nothing really. Just randomness.9. If a robber's got a gun and all I have is a bag of popcorn and some root beer, I'd probably give him a few bucks and hope he goes away.10. Humble peeps.
evergrey Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 Pertaining to the martial arts....What makes you cry?Testing for rank, haha! I hold myself to impossibly high standards. I cry when I'm frustrated with myself, once I get into my car. I cried (once I got into my car) the first time I cracked someone's ribs. I felt like a monster. I cried once I got home, the day I snapped my ACL. It hurt and even more than that, I was scared I wouldn't ever be able to fight knockdown again.What makes you smile?Just about everything else, haha! My Sensei, teaching me. Our head instructor, cracking a joke. Shihan teasing me (I tease him right back, though I pay for it, lol!) Watching a beautiful kata. Kumite done well. Seeing someone's spirit really shine through. A classmate accomplishing something great, in or out of the dojo. Watching a master at work. Seeing a martial artist with decades of experience flow from one movement to the next, like water. When I finally LEARN something and am able to APPLY it! A clean dojo. Learning opportunities (though usually much later once the sting has passed, haha) A photo of our Sosai. A story from "back in the day," precious and told from a place of trust and love. That feeling when your blood is pumping and it's HARD work but it makes you feel so ALIVE. Stepping into the dojo. Knowing I am home, with friends and family. Everything, really.What makes you say "WOW"?When someone shows their true fighting spirit. When someone overcomes seemingly impossible odds. When someone KEEPS PUSHING way beyond what they thought they could endure. When I see my instructors fight, or even just MOVE. What makes you pause?Remembering that I need to breathe?What makes you angry?Injustice. Feeling misunderstood. Politics! POLITICS! Ugly nasty dark secrets! Lies! Bullying. Thankfully these things are rare in my dojo, or well in the past, long before my time.What makes you laugh?Getting hit really hard. No seriously, I start laughing... The jokes my instructors crack. The things that happen to people that make me think "oh man, I have SO been there!"What makes you think?Everything. Everything. I need to think less, maybe, not live in my head so much.What makes you try?I think about my horse, everything he survived, how he kept fighting, pushing, enduring, surviving abuse and injuries that would have made others die. I think of OSU- to push, and to endure. I think of how I refuse to give up, I refuse to give in, I refuse to give in to the weakness of my flesh or the fragility of my mental health. I have goals. I want to please my instructors. I want to honor the gift of knowledge they give me. I want to pass that gift along to future generations of knockdown fighters. I think of the lessons that Sosai taught, and I want to honor them as well. My spirit and my hear and my blood all sing the name of Kyokushin, and that pushing me onward and onward still. For myself, for my family, for my community, I try.What makes you surrender?Well, sometimes I will experience pain that is intense enough, and enough of a shock, that I just Have To Sit Down Right Now. That happens less and less. As for surrender though, I surrender to the will of my instructors, as much as I can, out of gratitude, love, and trust. What makes you respect?Those who give it 110%. People who can put their ego aside. People who have a good heart, who walk through this world with honor and integrity, who serve their community and their families. People who have humility and confidence both. People who balance their ability to destroy with the ability to create. People who know how to harm, and seek to heal. People who build up all those around them instead of breaking them down. Those who act like warriors, instead of thugs. People with a pure spirit. People who, against all odds, continue to push, and to endure.OSU http://kyokushinchick.blogspot.com/"If you can fatally judo-chop a bull, you can sit however you want." -MasterPain, on why Mas Oyama had Kyokushin karateka sit in seiza with their clenched fists on their thighs.
sensei8 Posted March 11, 2012 Author Posted March 11, 2012 Great replies thus far...thank you all.Please feel free to add your own question(s). **Proof is on the floor!!!
Groinstrike Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 Pertaining to the martial arts....What makes you cry?-LossWhat makes you smile?-New guys spazzing outWhat makes you say "WOW"?-Marcelo GarciaWhat makes you pause?-Nothing, stop moving and you die.What makes you angry?-IgnoranceWhat makes you laugh?-PainWhat makes you think?-ExistenceWhat makes you try?-FearWhat makes you surrender?-ARMBAR!!!!!What makes you respect?-Effort and understandingPlease feel free to add your own questions to mine.
MasterPain Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 What makes you cry?- Old YellerWhat makes you smile?- Lots of stuff, I try to have fun.What makes you say "WOW"?- Marcello Garcia, Marc Denny, GSP, Jacky Chan, and this lovely young lady What makes you pause?- Being overweight and tired from a day's workWhat makes you angry?- Unrealistic weapon defenseWhat makes you laugh?- Enter the Dojo, getting hit with things, JCVD's Street Fighter movieWhat makes you think?- Monty Python and the Meaning of LifeWhat makes you try?- Fun and a dismal view of humanityWhat makes you surrender?- Saskatuwan Spinning Nerve HoldWhat makes you respect?- Kindness, anything else can be impressive or scary, but compassion is the one thing I truly respect My fists bleed death. -Akuma
sensei8 Posted March 11, 2012 Author Posted March 11, 2012 MP,Yeah...that girl with the bow/arrow was WOW. I'd hate to have to get in the way of her arrows...unless I had some wall between us. WOWWY!! Btw, thanks for that video. **Proof is on the floor!!!
MasterPain Posted March 11, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 I've had the pleasure of sparring with an instructor of Angel Cabales' system, it was pretty one sided. Here is Mr Cabales when he was young. Here's one you may like, notice the nice bit of tuite around 2:40. Years ago, another thing that made me say wow was having my head squeezed by Bart Vale at a seminar. That guy was ridiculously strong. My fists bleed death. -Akuma
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