Get up how many times?

Posted by: ThomsonsPier

Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 08:20 AM

Assuming starting position is standing, how can you get up eight times whilst only falling down seven?
Posted by: MattJ

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 08:36 AM

Dude.....it's like 8:35AM here. I hate math.

*kicks TP in the sack for his early morning math insolence*
Posted by: oldman

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 08:42 AM

You can't get up from a standing position.
Posted by: Taison

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 08:38 PM

*kicks TP in the sack twice for asking this mathematical question*

No more math!

-Taison out

*kicks TP in the sack again just to make sure he doesn't ask again*
Posted by: Crash

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 08:55 PM

ahh I remember the saying now. "nana karobi ya oki" (sorry for crappy spelling that may not be right) my step-dad used to say it alot. but he'd say it like "seven times down, eight times up" I didn't know till years later it had to do with falling. I always just assumed it meant screw 7! 8 is better!
Posted by: evad74

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 10:40 PM

climb a ladder?

Or after falling and getting up 7 times, gently lower yourself to the ground instead of "falling", then get back up.
Posted by: JKogas

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 11:05 PM

*Jumps in to kick TP in the sack just because it seems like a fun idea.....
Posted by: grumbleweed

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 11:46 PM

does viagra figure in the answer somehow?!
Posted by: aikiuke

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/08/07 11:51 PM

um...
Posted by: JAMJTX

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/09/07 12:19 AM

stand up for the first time (once up)
fall down get back up (once down twice up)
fall down get back uo (twice down 3 times up)
fall down get back up (3 times down 4 times up)
fall down get back up (4 times down 5 times up)
fall down get back up (5 times down 6 times up)
fall down get back up (6 times down 7 times up)
fall down get back up (7 times down 8 times up)

Of course you were born down, before you got up the first time. So overall you were down 8 times and up 8 times. But the saying is "if you fall down 7 times get up 8 times.
The first time down wasn't a fall.
If you fall down 7 timees and don't get up for the 8th time, it's all over.
Posted by: Leo_E_49

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/09/07 04:51 AM

Easy, you fall down seven times during sparring, getting up each time and then when you're done you kneel, bow to your training partner and instructor and get up again an eighth time.

Of course, the phrase doesn't actually mean that but I like to think of it that way.
Posted by: shills11

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/09/07 10:06 AM

You can't, There is a saying: nana-korobi, ya-oki, which means fall down seven times, get up eight times. Life has its ups and downs; more ups than downs, so persevere when things are tough and you will surely get through them.
Posted by: Taison

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/10/07 09:20 PM

Quote:

stand up for the first time (once up)
fall down get back up (once down twice up)
fall down get back uo (twice down 3 times up)
fall down get back up (3 times down 4 times up)
fall down get back up (4 times down 5 times up)
fall down get back up (5 times down 6 times up)
fall down get back up (6 times down 7 times up)
fall down get back up (7 times down 8 times up)

Of course you were born down, before you got up the first time. So overall you were down 8 times and up 8 times. But the saying is "if you fall down 7 times get up 8 times.
The first time down wasn't a fall.
If you fall down 7 timees and don't get up for the 8th time, it's all over.




*Jumps in and kicks JAMJTX in the sack*

-Taison out
Posted by: JAMJTX

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/11/07 12:50 AM

Looking over your posts, you seem to have a sack obesession
Posted by: ButterflyPalm

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/11/07 12:16 PM

This being a serious test of real thinking skills, I decided to do it scientifically; you know, experiment like?

So I started to fall and get up, keeping count of both; however on the 4th fall, I hurt my head and felt a little dizzy and so had to abandon the experiment. I'll try again when I feel better.
Posted by: shills11

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/11/07 12:20 PM

I hope no one jumps in and kicks me in the sack i still havent found my groin guard yet.........
Posted by: MattJ

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/11/07 12:28 PM

Quote:

Looking over your posts, you seem to have a sack obesession




*kicks Taison in the sack for insulting JAMJTX*

Posted by: shills11

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/11/07 01:05 PM

Here you go Taison a hit int sack compilation!

http://livedigital.com/content/keyword?t...:o=120:c=213470
Posted by: shills11

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/12/07 05:19 AM

link is rubbish i'm afraid i was trying to link you to a kick in the sack compilation but instead its a fat guy getting his a*s kicked
Posted by: Taison

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/13/07 02:40 AM

*Limps around hurt and wounded*

Aye mate, it hurts.

*Kicks MattJ in the sack*
*Kicks JAMJTX in the sack*
*Kicks shills11 in the sack before he puts on his groin guard*

*Kicks ButterflyPalm in the sack but discovers he has mastered the art of "Iron Groin" and is thus impervious to my vicious attack*

-Taison out
Posted by: Steel91

Re: Get up how many times? - 11/13/07 05:27 PM

Yeah really man, just say, fall seven times, get up seven times, don't make any sense to me either, maybe the guy who came up with the saying came up with it after getting up for the seventh time, but was so dazed he thought it was the eighth.