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#305785 - 12/15/06 01:01 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: sunspots]
underdog Veteran Registered: 09/18/04 Posts: 1270 Loc: Mansfield, MA U.S.A.	...have someone ask you "can you break this?" ...be asked if your hands are registered lethal weapons. ...be asked, "Can you jump up in the air, spin 180 degrees and kick me in the back of the head?... right now here in this store" _________________________ The older I get, the better I was!
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#305786 - 12/19/06 04:55 AM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: underdog]
crablord th3 t4sty sn4ck Registered: 08/10/06 Posts: 1530 Loc: Australia, QLD, GC	Quote: ...be asked if your hands are registered lethal weapons. I get that alot _________________________ "They say the only way to kill a lion is with a rear naked choke, but I'd just kick it in the head"
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#305787 - 12/19/06 11:12 AM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: Zombie Zero]
Ronin1966 Professional Poster Registered: 04/26/02 Posts: 3113 Loc: East Coast, United States	Hello Zombie: <<Whenever I talk to people about martial arts, (I do this a lot) Long as you are ~soft spoken~ about it I guess... a lot of silly people seek/want to physically do something to/with ~karottty guys~... (sic martial arts people) Fear of hurting themselves... Fear of BEING hurt... Fear they will need to become a "monk" or required to "convert" to some belief/religon/philosophy something unnamed and insidious... Fear they will never get anywhere with it, (ie it will take more than 60 seconds...) Fear they cannot "be themselves" in the uniforms (ie no fashion, jewelry, shoes, nothing external to make them "special" ) Fear they will be required to remove their nails Fear they will have to fight guys (ie they being tiny, everyone else far larger, heavier, angrier than themselves) Fear they will explore their anger... Fear it will take them away from their few minutes of "family time" they now have per week... Fear it will cost too much (eg "...the place down the street cost my buddy $1,200 for the full year contract...") There are lots of amusing, odd, bizarre fears... Jeff
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#305788 - 12/19/06 01:18 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: Zombie Zero]
Derik Cruisin' for a bruisin' Registered: 03/05/06 Posts: 161	if you practice martial arts long enogh you will eventually... fart in class and blame it on somone else
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#305789 - 12/19/06 08:01 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: Zombie Zero]
butterfly Professional Poster Registered: 08/25/04 Posts: 3012 Loc: Torrance, CA	If you practice martial arts long enough, you'll cease to care about belts. Your belt, what belt someone else has, your next testing (if there is one) and just practice becuase you like it or it becomes part of what you do.
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#305790 - 12/19/06 10:19 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: butterfly]
MattJ Free Rhinoplasty! Prolific Registered: 11/25/04 Posts: 15629 Loc: York PA. USA	If you practice martial arts long enough, you will eventually lose * your temper * your initiative * your train of thought * a match * control of a weapon * parts of your clothing HOWEVER - The longer you practice, the less that stuff will happen, and the less you will worry about it. _________________________ "In case you ever wondered what it's like to be knocked out, it's like waking up from a nightmare only to discover it wasn't a dream." -Forrest Griffin
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#305791 - 12/19/06 11:20 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: butterfly]
Leo_E_49 Professional Poster Registered: 02/24/05 Posts: 4115 Loc: California	Quote: If you practice martial arts long enough, you'll cease to care about belts. Your belt, what belt someone else has, your next testing (if there is one) and just practice becuase you like it or it becomes part of what you do. This one is especially true after you go back to white belt again after being a black belt. Edited by Leo_E_49 (12/19/06 11:20 PM) _________________________ Self Defense (Website by Marc MacYoung, not me)
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#305792 - 04/13/07 08:04 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: Leo_E_49]
jpoor Enthusiast Registered: 04/11/07 Posts: 726 Loc: Fairfax, VA	Quote: Quote: If you practice martial arts long enough, you'll cease to care about belts. Your belt, what belt someone else has, your next testing (if there is one) and just practice becuase you like it or it becomes part of what you do. This one is especially true after you go back to white belt again after being a black belt. Amen! My teacher in CA would quite frequently wear a white belt to class. Almost every new year he would start out with a white belt and any other time he felt he needed to remind himself to be humble. edited to fix quote Edited by MattJ (04/13/07 08:10 PM)
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#305793 - 04/14/07 12:48 PM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: Zombie Zero]
Sam_Karate Stranger Registered: 04/14/07 Posts: 3	Quote: If you practise martial arts long enough, eventually you will... ... fall down. In front of a lot of people. They will laugh. Hopefully, you will too. Get back up, and try it again. ... feel pain. It may be from a harsh wrist lock applied by an overzealous training partner. It may be unbelievably sore muscles from overdoing it in class. Rest up, and get back in there. ... accidentally fart in class. Experienced students in class will pretend they didn't notice. That's because it's happened to them. Ignore it, and keep training. ... freeze up, and forget what you were supposed to do. This can even happen during a formal testing. Calm down, take a deep breath, and it will come to you. If it doesn't, ask for the instruction again. ... get frustrated, maybe even to the point you want to quit. Calm down, shake it out, and know that you will improve. Everyone progresses at a different pace. Well, this is what I've done since I started in '97 FALL DOWN - Heaps of times: slow kicks = easy grabs and take downs FEEL PAIN - Lots!! My forearms were pitch black after an entire training session devouted to conditioning (I hadn't trained in 2 months - I was not conditioned!); little finger dislocated in another fighters gi; broken toes; black and swollen lip... nothing major though FART - Can't say I ever have, that I remember, know stacks of guys who have though FREEZE - My last grading, I stuffed up one of my katas 3 times (which I have known for 6 years) and I was performing it with a junior who was going for a senior belt who got it perfect every time FRUSTRATED - I've gotten to the point where I've wanted to flatten a few of the instructors, but that's it so far Other things to add... - I know a girl who vomited from nervousness at a grading - Guys: Pants falling down (do NOT wear silk type boxers under your gi, this only encourages them to fall); this one did happen to me though, so girls, make sure you're wearing decent undies - Girls: Belt coming undone and top opening to reveal that old sweaty sports bra - Kicking some poor guy in the balls (so embaressing being to kicker) - Throwing your weapons across the room (an instructor was using the nanchucks and they left his hand and hit the front wall (he was standing at the back of the floor)) Probably is many more too
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#305794 - 04/22/07 04:28 AM Re: If you practise martial arts long enough... [Re: Sam_Karate]
Jeff_G Member Registered: 04/15/06 Posts: 221 Loc: Midwest	you will see some really cool stuff. Keep going and... You will do some really cool stuff.
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