What's in a name?

$10 even sounds good, Double B. My contribution will be made shortly.

Anybody going to join us? $5 to fightingarts.com?

Cord is the name of the principle character in a movie called 'The Silent Flute' co written by bruce lee and James Coburn. In it he is on a quest to defeat a mighty warrior, the prize for doing so is the book of all knowledge. Fantastic offbeat MA movie.

Joel ...I think it clearly states in the forum rules that there shall be no solicitation. lol

It's not solicitation, it's suggestion. I'm only acting as a moderator when I type in bold. Otherwise I just get to have my name a cool color.


So to you.



My $5 are in. How about all you other slackers?

I have always been fascinated by Tae Kwon Do's jumping kicks, and the jumping side kick is a trademark Chung Do Kwan technique.

Leo - My nickname, mainly chosen by my friends because it's got the same first letter as my real name. It stuck because it's 3 letters long and therefore fits perfectly on arcade machine high score tables.
E - First letter of my surname
49 - My favourite number

I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard many times that Shaolin Kung Fu originated from 18 postures Bodhidharma (spelling?) taught the monks (to help them stay awake during meditation). The postures are known as the 18 lohans.

Also, most MA's just seem linked to Shaolin (also not sure how valid this one is). But yeah, basically I just wanted a nick that shouted "the origins/roots/beginnings" or something like that.

My name comes from when I joined a gaming clan called '_KEEPERoF_' and I had to chose somthing short that would fit in with the other guys names...I had always wanted to join the _KEEPERoF_ clan..they all had names like _KEEPERoF_PitY and _KEEPERoF_SoulZ so I chose _KEEPERoF_MiSt.

It reminds me of mythikal strange things..Oh, and it looks cool(I think).

My second passion in life, after martial arts, is solar physics, especially sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, etc. I use this name on some sites relating to that, and just kept using it here.

My name simply indicates how much I enjoy martial arts.

Prometej ( Prometheus) , you all know the myth and what it represents

In many cultures the owl is a symbol of knowledge and wisdom, it is also known for silence, and watchfullness. The owl is also one of the most deadly birds of prey. It reminds me of the "gentleman warrior" that Bushi_no_ki mentioned earlier. I won't pretend to possess knowledge or wisdom, but I do value them. Silent and watchfull describes me pretty well though.

The circle is an allusion to vultures circling a dead animal. I've always wondered what owls would circle, if they were prone to do such things. Would they search for knowledge? Are they just watching? Or do they just want to kill something?

Yes, I thought about this way too much.

- CoO

I think birds in general have some sort of weird gyroscope mechanism that somehow calibrates to magnetic north...circling might be a way for them to gain their bearings, each pass in the circle getting more accurate...or it also could be communicating it's territory or even just hunting. maybe all three. but I think we can assume that it is something necessary and wise for their survival. I'm not sure. the name Circle_of_Owls is interesting though.

Mine is from people's (somewhat false) perception of me when the first meet me. When I first started MA with the group I belong with, they all thought I was a nice quiet girl (they thought I was a teenager when I joined). Turns out I am rarely quiet, not as nice as I seem (though I try to be), and a bit older than they thought. Fooled them all!!!

spectrum was a project from work. I was used to typing the word and Mark was taken.

In hindsight I hope some greater meaning is possible?

bump

Mine's quite boring too, and you'd think I would have thought up a more creative "handle" since my favorite subject is English and I'm a voracious reader. Voracious_Reader...now doesn't that sound so much better?

Anyways, I'm a karateka...and my favorite number is thirteen. I'm soooo original!

well when ever i do something online, i try to be origonal with my names. so i play a game where my name was "thatdude" so in honor of that character my name is "thisguy"

other names include, but aren't limited to: darkmonkey, OhCrap, ThisNameIsTaken, WarmCimpSalad and so on...

Mine was given to me after I came back from an injury with a steel plate in my ankle and started kicking hard again.

Mine is quite straightforward. I practice Wado Ryu and I am female so I was wadowoman for around a year when I started posting here. Then the forums crashed and I couldn't sign on with that name so I registered as was wadowoman. Very soon after there was another problem and I re- registered again as still wadowoman.
Sharon

Zombie is a nickname I was given in the Navy. It was descriptive of how I looked before my morning coffee, especially after a night of partying.

On most forums and online games, the name 'Zombie' is already taken, so rather than add a numeral to the end, I added 'Zero'.

Double-Z

Well, my name is Kim, an on primary school someone told me that it meant 'horizon' in Japanese. I always remembered that because I thought horizon as a name was beautiful. Hopefully I am correct, otherwise embarrased . Then again, I still like 'horizon' and don't want to change it.

'Kim' can't be Japanese since they do not have a standalone 'm' particle (they do have a 'n' however).

'Kim' in Korean means 'gold' and shares the same chinese character with Japanese 'Kin', also meaning gold. 'Jin' in Chinese is the word for gold.

There are several words in Japanese for 'horizon'...Kim is not one of them and isn't a correct romanization. your name in Japanese would have to be 'Kimu'.

having 'gold' to your name isn't such a bad thing

I got the name red tiger because red is the color of fire, and tiger is my birth year animal. both these are included in my chinese year of birth.

Iai is from my MA of choice, Muso Shinden Ryu Iaido.
Bear is for my consummate lack of grace when committing Aikido..

Wow...long thread. How'd I miss this one?

Actually, these days it's hard for me to kick that high (unless you're 10 y/o). I needed an e-mail address that MA-ists would remember & "asskikr" sounded too low-class. It also makes people smile when they figure it out.

Cue Guy . . . our lowest tested rank is Kyu Gai . . . Japanese for either "No Kyu" or (my preference) "10,000th Kyu"

Just a way of reminding myself that I'm still a beginner.

I study Shaolin kung fu and ninjutsu. Anybody who's watched enough B-movies knows that the two most kickass martial artists are Shaolin monks and ninjas. Hence: Shaolin monk + ninja <<<via cosmic synergism>>> = ME, ShaolinNinja. Can you dig it?

WuXing is Five Animals, which is the form I am focusing on for my personal practice (Shaolin Wu Xing Quan). There is such a variety of techniques and applications, it will take me a long time to discover all the potential uses.

dogfacedboy is a pretty hairy circus freak from the days of the travelling shows, real name was Theodore Petrov I think. I'm pretty hairy myself so I swiped his circus name as Theodore Petrov didn't sound quite so cool.

well my name is rob, and my friend aobh (pronounced "eve", dont ask, its an irish name) started calling me robnus, because it was a derivative of "penus" which obviously is a mispelling of some other word. and that stuck.

usually, its ®obNus, just to be different, but this site didnt accept it when i registered....

onb - an acronym for a nickname I was given in univeristy... O.N.B. = Old 'n' Bitter. We tricked people into thinking I was 32 when I was still only 21 but unfortunately, from that day forward I will always be 32... which sucked when I was young, but as I get older, I figure I'll just stop aging at 32. (funny, when I was 21, 32 souned really old... now, not so much)

40+TKDLee breaks down as my age (40+) when I started TKD. The Lee part is a nickname from LeRoy.

Pilsung

Schanne, because it is my last name.

tkd obviously stands for tae kwon do and the kid part satnds for hoe people think of me when the see me. we werea t publix on day and i was going to be a junior in h/s and the guy at the cash register was tlaking to me liek i was a littel kid. he was like "hi sweetie""are you going into 6th grade this year?" i was like "no,try 11th" so thus exists tkdkid plus some random number

Rookie - I registered on another site when I first started MA. I was, therfore, the Rookie on the board. I have only been studying for about 5 yrs, so Iguess in the grand schee, I am still a rookie.

One of my hobbies, and that which takes time when I'm at home at night drinkin' beer and eating my sandwich, was always writing. First, I tried writing normal modern-day fictional stories, but they bored me to all hades. Then I went over to fantasy (Which, admittedly I don't know much about). The main character in everything I've attempted to write has been one, Ketilron. A theif, a darin'do rogue, a charmer, and quite handsome (Takes after me). Ket was his nickname.

Also, while doing little free-for all matches as a dumb younger man, our "ref" (Using the term loosely) asked us to give a ring handle. I think he was joking. Everyone chose named like "Fists of Lightning!" and "Kill'em Quicker Kicker!" and crap like that. At the time I was asked, the guy I was against had a very shiny red shaved head, and I thought it looked like a kettle boiling over with all the sweat coming down his forehead. Without thinking, I said Ket, when asked my handle. Then, thinking it over, I remembered my character in whatever unfinished written work I have, and repeated the name, Ket. Got weird looks for that, guess it made no sense to anyone but me. Ya, sorry, long story.

Stuck with it ever since. Real names Andrew. Howdy.

-Ket

bump twice

You've gotta be kidding me! I was just about to bump this thread myself because I put it as one of my favorite topics and thought, since we have a lot of new members, it would be cool to know how they got their handles too. Only you beat me to it just as I was reading through it!

Wow...

Uummm, we dont have to use our real names? Geez, now they tell me. I just thought all you other guys/gals parents was from the Beatle's era.

Explain "Bump" for me someone?

Hey Paul,

Well if there's a topic people stop replying to, it gets pushed downwards while newer topics go on top. If you want this particular topic to stay on top for other people to comment on, or whatever, but you have nothing to add you just post "bump" which means you're bumping the topic back to the top of the page.

On occasion, an old thread will be revived by making a post.

'bump' just means 'Hey, I liked this thread, I think it still has some use...wanna post?'



Oh, and I am from the Beatles era:

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~wakoluk/preview.html

Shikata ga nai means "it cannot be helped". It really can't, but that's ok.

Since most of the techniques of jujutsu and aikido involve "twisting the wrist", it's the only instruction I can remember...

J = Jason = me
C = Chirstina My loving wife
4199 the day we got married April 1, 1999
Kinda corney but I like it

Diabolic or diabolical is "devilish". Started getting called it in a game I use to play online and it kinda stuck. In real life my old friends call me "juice" because years back I use to get crazy when I drank and they would say...Uh-Oh the Juice is loose!

Tim = my name
Black = an alternative to my unspellable surname, Glebocki...

I'm not really very original

Goju - the main style i study

Warrior - because of the big kanji symbol i have for it on the back of my neck

1 - Because i numba one!

tkd_high_green

tkd - obvious, my chosen method of abusing myself
high_green - my rank when I signed up on here.

Laura

LOL, while reading this thread I began to wonder where Kintama was, and I thought to myself that Ed Morris reminds me of him. Imagine my surprise when I find out they`re one and the same.

As for my name here, it`s nothing special. My real name Peter is almost always taken as is its short version (Pero in Slovene). I`m not very creative at creating nicknames and at the time when I registered here I was watching a lot of Babylon 5. My favourite character was ambassador Kosh, so I took that name. His qoute is also in my signature.

Hello Harlan:

[I don't know how "new" you could be exactly having 2,521 posts already however...]

"Ronin" being a historical Japanese term for a professional warrior (ie Samurai) typically a wandering professional soldier without any group affiliation, or more specifically without a specific liegelord/Master.

If I take the title very loosely, simple means I have no "master" and am pleased to be without one. A teacher most definately, a "MASTER".... no too many laden ideas with one of those...

As for 66 is was an excellent year for wine !

Jeff

I have forever been "Boomer"...only close friends and family know why.....

My handle comes from the local Okinawan dialect. It means "Okinawan person". I chose it because Okinawa has been my home for quite some time now.

Dark, swarthy guardian, eh? Not so bad.
My real name translates to "Polite Farmer of the Red Stream".

I've been coming here longer than I can remember, however I am a Reiki master teacher so it seemed a good idea to have someone on here who knew how to fix all those injuries!

and I was too lazy to find a MA sounding name that wasn't already taken...

Ives! My last name is Ibes, but I once heard it changed during the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands.
Those Spanish never seem to get the V like a V out of there mouth. It's always a B. But I like the V.
Ives comes from Britain I believe.
So much for history.

Everyones all got these call names and mines just basically my nickname:

'Tezza'

My real name being Terrence, yet over the years people have called me Tez, which eventually turned into Tezza.
So theres nothing to it really, not like some of your fancy names.

"Crash" I have another nickname (Moesy) but I like more tough scrappy nicknames like Crash, Spike etc. Or any of the guys names from the movie "The Warriors" (Ajax, snow, Rembrant, Cleon, Vermin, Swan, cowboy etc)

I just have this thing with time...

bump for the newbies on board

(Hey...I gotta know...why 'crablord'? )

Well mine's not creative at all. It's just my first initial, middle initial and my last name.

Well, here goes. It's really very silly.

Basically kysogkram is a Danish expression me and my friends use. We're always goofing off, arguing about stuff and giving each other a bit of a hard time (just for fun, in a friendly way ofc).

Kysogkram means: kys = kisses, og = and, kram = hugs... kisses and hugs.

So this is basically used in the gayest fashion possible (how un-pc of me), if someone calls you an [censored], you'd just reply with "kys og kram!".

Gah, doesn't make much sense, guess you should've been there to get it

Very cool - thanks for topping this back up for us new folks. My name is based on this belief / saying / quote - whatever it is... Life is not a JOURNEY to the grave with the intentions of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. But rather to slide in sideways, thouroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming...WOW WHAT A RIDE!!

Im not sure about any historical significance of my name but I do know that there is some theatrical significance in that the name Chen Zen was used by Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jackie Chan in one of there respective movies. If it holds any other significance than I am unaware of it but there you have it nonetheless.

funny, I thought I posted here already.....

exceptionist2- suffix being exception, or anomaly, both relative to the intent.

exceptionist- personalized modification to indicate my deliberate/non-deliberate anomalous nature. Also a coincidental similiarity to Neo "Matrix", because "exceptions" are also error conditions that change the normal flow of control in program coding.

exceptionist2: can be a statement, such as my first signature on this site which was "exception 2 rules", which states two separate "but true" sentence fragments:
1. I truly do in fact rule.
2. I am an exception to rules.

exceptionist 2 is currently the format because my fighting concepts and philosophy are very unrestricted by tradition and style, but more more influenced by theory and application....which in debate makes my beliefs "exceptions" to the rules that restrict others who oppose my theory because of unquestioning dedication to tradition.

I may have just went way too deep with that huh? First Place prizes are handed out where again?

Then again others would call your training JKD.

Oki doki, Marishiten is the name of a Buddhist warrior goddess. I picked the name because I like it, no other reason. Well, I guess the meaning did influence my choice, because if it meant something like BOULDER I wouldn't have chosen it.