The Funniest situation!

[Safroot]

What is the funniest situation that happened to you in your MA journey (either while training or in tournament) ?

[wagnerk]

I don't know the funniest, but one that was pretty funny was during one of my previous gradings, I was demonstration the practice applications to one the forms (or should I say, I was suppose to be demonstrating the applications to one of the forms).

My mind must have slipped, cause after demonstrating it (and feeling pretty good about it), my instructor then said and now he (referring to me) will demonstrate the application for the form that I was suppose to do.

The penny dropped, I did the application for a previous form. I then just said (roughly as I can't remember the exact words)... "and that's how not to do it, next I will demonstrator how to do it".

Everyone laughed

I guess you just had to be there...

p.s. I did pass that grading

[Safroot]

I don't know the funniest, but one that was pretty funny was during one of my previous gradings, I was demonstration the practice applications to one the forms (or should I say, I was suppose to be demonstrating the applications to one of the forms).

My mind must have slipped, cause after demonstrating it (and feeling pretty good about it), my instructor then said and now he (referring to me) will demonstrate the application for the form that I was suppose to do.

The penny dropped, I did the application for a previous form. I then just said (roughly as I can't remember the exact words)... "and that's how not to do it, next I will demonstrator how to do it".

Everyone laughed

I guess you just had to be there...

p.s. I did pass that grading

Lol ... really funny and embarrassing at the same time specially during grading

[Zaine]

My favorite is still my Shodan test. During the kata test I was to perform a Nunchaku kata. The kata was simple enough, but I hated it (and so did my Sensei, which is why I probably didn't think it was as important to master). So I get through the first part and realize that I have absolutely no idea what is supposed to come next. So I improvised and finished up my kata.

On the testing board there were a few visiting masters who complimented me on how good the kata looked and that they could see no fault in it, but they wanted to know what my instructor thought. My instructor furrowed his brow and simply asked "John, could you do that again?" I smiled and said "No sir, not if my life depended on it." He then related to the other members of the testing board that he wasn't sure what kata I had performed but that it certainly wasn't the one that he taught me. I ended up getting compliments on how well I did masking that fact and making something up off the cuff but I was super nervous about it in the moment.

[Safroot]

My favorite is still my Shodan test. During the kata test I was to perform a Nunchaku kata. The kata was simple enough, but I hated it (and so did my Sensei, which is why I probably didn't think it was as important to master). So I get through the first part and realize that I have absolutely no idea what is supposed to come next. So I improvised and finished up my kata.

On the testing board there were a few visiting masters who complimented me on how good the kata looked and that they could see no fault in it, but they wanted to know what my instructor thought. My instructor furrowed his brow and simply asked "John, could you do that again?" I smiled and said "No sir, not if my life depended on it." He then related to the other members of the testing board that he wasn't sure what kata I had performed but that it certainly wasn't the one that he taught me. I ended up getting compliments on how well I did masking that fact and making something up off the cuff but I was super nervous about it in the moment.

[SteyrAUG]

My favorite is still my Shodan test. During the kata test I was to perform a Nunchaku kata. The kata was simple enough, but I hated it (and so did my Sensei, which is why I probably didn't think it was as important to master). So I get through the first part and realize that I have absolutely no idea what is supposed to come next. So I improvised and finished up my kata.

On the testing board there were a few visiting masters who complimented me on how good the kata looked and that they could see no fault in it, but they wanted to know what my instructor thought. My instructor furrowed his brow and simply asked "John, could you do that again?" I smiled and said "No sir, not if my life depended on it." He then related to the other members of the testing board that he wasn't sure what kata I had performed but that it certainly wasn't the one that he taught me. I ended up getting compliments on how well I did masking that fact and making something up off the cuff but I was super nervous about it in the moment.

If it makes you feel better, there really are no nunchaku kata. They are all 20th century conventions with the oldest one "possibly" being the creation of Shinken Taira. And if "he" can just make them up, then so can you.

When I used to try and maintain a huge catalog of kata I would sometimes find myself transitioning from Kata A to Kata B whenever I hit a point of commonality or simply a neutral point that permitted such a transition. This was especially common when I would know three or four systems that had kata that were obviously all derived from the same parent kata and were just different enough to be incorrect when done in the wrong dojo.

I've seen lots worse when it comes to weapon forms, especially in Chinese styles. People who have no idea their spear form is actually a single end staff form and vice versa. I've seen more sai kata that are actually just empty hand forms holding sai than I care to even think about. My all time favorite was a guy teaching "Sanchin Sai" kata.

Speaking of Sanchin. Funniest thing I've ever seen is an entire class of grown men (approx. 16) all doing Sanchin kata very badly consistently farting the entire time and trying to mask the sounds with serious Ibuki breathing.

[SteyrAUG]

Was also once at a martial arts demonstration where some comic minded black belts secretly replaced all the cheap Z grade boards with actual 3/4" (what is called 1" but really isn't) boards of good stock and the fragile garden stones with similar looking flat cinder bricks used for construction.

There were several participating "masters" that day that encountered some "technical difficulty." Many people who had set up stacks of 14+ boards found they couldn't even break 4. One guy actually put a board against the wall to break it because he was convinced somebody put steel rods in the boards.

[Nidan Melbourne]

Well when I was a green belt (in like 2003) my pants ripped in the crotch region inbetween the pant legs. It was incredibly embarrassing at the time but now I laugh at it.

The worst thing was that the girl i had a HUUUUGE Crush on at the time saw it happen.

[Shizentai]

At age 17 I decided to train with the little kids' class at my dojo for fun. Of course that was the day when my pants string broke, sending my pants down around my ankles when I was asked to kicked the bag in front of everyone.

[IcemanSK]

Years ago, I was a judge at a belt test. A young teen (12-13 or so), had a pained look on his face as I lead students through basic blocks. I asked if something was wrong, but he has "no sir!" Apparently, his cup wasn't secured & had come out of his jock, so as he did the next low block with a lot of force, his cup came down his pant leg & onto the floor. He was too nervous (at his first test) to tell me, yet oddly relieved he wasn't uncomfortable any longer. The rest of the test went better.