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Kenpo Lite
Printed From: Kenpo Thoughts
Forum Name: General Talk
Forum Discription: General discussions on various topics on Martial Arts and Kenpo/Kempo
Topic: Kenpo Lite
Posted By: One Warrior
Subject: Kenpo Lite
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 3:29pm
We have a great group here. Lots of serious martial artists with mature and civil communication skills and great attitudes. Having said that... let's have alittle fun.
We need alittle levity amongst the seriousness. How about some funny or strange martial arts stories? We have all probably seen or heard something in or about the dojo that is worth repeating. Tell us about it. Did someone embarrass themself so bad that everyone wet their pants? Did a student show up wearing something alittle too weird to forget? What's the craziest thing you've seen a parent or spouse do while in the dojo? C'mon, there must be tons of funny or wierd things waiting to be told. ....
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
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Posted By: mj_lover
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 3:41pm
oh, you mean like strories of that wierdo that came in wanting rapid advancement because he combined a karate trial period with "mind altering substances" this "substance" also gave him supior awarness, so he could block a kick he never saw...that was one interesting incident, we (well, bo and i) also on ocasion when rickM isn't looking break out into viking kenpo, its great!
"don't block with your face" [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif[/image]
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Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 3:56pm
yes, exactly. heh. I have a bunch of things I remember that still make me chuckle.
Like when I was demonstrating the technique "Hugging Pendulum", I was tired that day. When explaining the technique to a female student, I mistakenly referred to it as "Hung Pendulum". Her eyes widened and she said " WHAT is it called??". I was embarrassed at my slip up and quickly corrected myself. And of course the rest of the class made crude references for the rest of the night. So now no one can say that name without saying it the wrong way. Sometimes Kenpoists have filthy minds.
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And another quick one.. a husband and wife were practicing the technique " Triggered Salute" on each other. The husband wasn't totally focused and his control was sloppy and actually palm-heeled his wife in the lip. She said she was fine but had an evil look on her face for the rest of the class. We all laughed when it happened and started referring to that technique as " Triggered Divorce."
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
Posted By: SifuJJ
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:03pm
I think I might just posess the mother of all embarassing Martial Arts moments, so glad I could share it here for my first post...
In 1995 I attended an invitational tournament in Mossyrock, WA. I took about 40 students to this tournament.
Wanting to set a good example and encourage the students to get the full benefit of testing their knowledge against other schools, I signed up for both Kata and Kumite.
When the time for Black Belt kata came, all other rings on the gymnasium floor were cleared.
At the time, I owned a Tokaido Gi which had no elastic waistband...drawstring only for this ultra-traditional fellow.
As my name was called to perform my kata, I leapt to my feet and ran halfway across the gymnasium to give my intro to the judges. Little did I know that when I jumped up, I untied the gi pants. There were approximately 400 people in attendance at this tournament that got to see on that particular day that I had chosen only to wear the jock underneath the pants.
By the time I reached the judges with my Gi pants around my ankles, they were all laughing so hard that I'm sure they had no idea what kata I was to perform. I still managed to take 4th place.
I did get the last laugh though as I won the Black Belt Kumite...and they never knew it was all part of my plan.
Hope this provides all with as many laughs as it provided our students for 6 months after it happened. [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley9.gif[/image]
Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 11:14pm
That's damn funny. I can imagine the laughs you got..
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 12:33pm
Good idea one warrior.
That was pretty funny SifuJJ. [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif[/image]
Here's one:
I came to visit my instructor during the day at his school. When I came in, he was speaking with a prospective student and when my intructor saw me, he immediatetly introduced me as one of his students and walked away. I was a little perplexed by the quick departure, until I spent about 2 minutes with this person. He began asking me some of the strangest questions. I was really looking for an exit at that point. One didn't come up until he asked, "what belt are you?" I replied, "Black Belt". His response, "Wow...does that mean you have a license to kill?". I was thinking at that point I wish I did, then I adlibed my reply, "I did, but they took it away from me", as I pretended to have a nervous eye twitch. I was shocked that he actually took me seriously as he replied "Wow". I told him that my master has to teach me some secret techniques in private. So he left.
As he was leaving, I walked up to my intructor and told him that if it wasn't for the fact that I knew for sure he could kick my but, I'd hit him. He just laughed and said, "I knew you would appreciate it". So I told my intructor, "Don't worry, I told him to come back in an hour, as you would be available then". You know, it was the only time I saw fear in his eyes.
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Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 2:12pm
heh... I'm sure alot of us have come across those types of people at one point or another. Here's another I thought of.
It didn't happen in a dojo but right in my home. Many years ago, my friends and I were at my house, drinking and playing board games. (yes, remember board games?) My daughter, who was about 4 or 5 at the time, was hanging around acting cute and getting everyone's attention. I commented to my friends on how tough she was and how I even taught her some fighting skills (albeit, primative ones.) I wanted her to show off her skill for us. I knelt in front of her and explained to my friends that she will demonstrate what a proper and powerful punch looks like. Before I was ready and could give her the cue to move, she threw that punch. And it was a good one! She hit me square in the upper lip. Surprised the hell out of me. It swelled slightly and left a mark on the inside. We were all laughing hysterically, but it did hurt! We never forgot that. To this day, my daughter (now 20) tells people she kicked her dad's ass when she was little. Ah well, the joys of parenthood.
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
Posted By: Uriko
Date Posted: 02 April 2005 at 1:28am
Well...
I once tried the somersault
At 1st i thought it was easy
(oozing confidence and charisma)
Until
When i jumped back,
yeah, i still stood
But after that, when i stepped front
I fell on my face [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley5.gif[/image]
Yeouch.....
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~Meow*
Posted By: timh
Date Posted: 02 April 2005 at 8:47am
Some funny stories. I can personally relate to the story regarding the young daughter punching her father. I too was bragging to my friends about my 5 year old son that had been learning some self defense techniques. I took the opportunity to show off his skills to my friends. I grabbed his hand and glanced at my friends, before I knew he punched me straight in the groin (he was perfrect height to line up straight with my groin), kicked me in the shin and then heel palmed me in the nose. To add to the damage, his 3 year old brother had walked over to join in the fun and stomped on my toes. Needless to say, my sons gained some confidence, my friends had some laughs, and I was humbled!
I am much more careful around my kids!!!!!!
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Be Aware and Stay Safe!
Posted By: taoist spider
Date Posted: 02 April 2005 at 9:46pm
Someone with a straight face and after my first tournament that I made a sound like one else when I hit the floor.
That was the last time I ever allowed both feet off the floor at the same time again when sparring.
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look around inside, you just might like your-self
Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 03 April 2005 at 10:00pm
I'm I crazy or does the first sentence in Taoist's post make absolutely no sense ?
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
Posted By: taoist spider
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 12:04pm
Sigh - You are right it makes no sense. I have got to stop replying to posts when I have been up for more than 24 hours.
My job requires that at times I often work in long stretches that can easily last more than a day. On one job last year I slept in my truck at the job site and worked 19 to 21 hours a day for a period of 12 days.
What I meant to say was that after my first in house tournament someone came up to me and tried to give me a complement by saying – When you hit the floor you make a sound like no other and I must admit that I did. I stopped the tournament and just about everyone ran over to see if I would survive.
By the way I think that it is very appropriate that this should happen in this thread!
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look around inside, you just might like your-self
Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 1:27pm
now THATS funny [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif[/image]
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 4:06pm
hehe - in one monday night class we were working specifically on independant motion and not telegraphing out punches.
One guy had JUST gotten his black belt like 3 days before, so we were all giving him trouble whenever possible. One instructor came in and said something to him right as he was taking his turn, so he got distracted and did a pretty awful, telegraphed punch.
so the (woman) instructor says to the new (male) blackbelt - "What are you doing? Your cock was huge!"
a few minutes later his turn came up again, and he did it much better, so karen says, "Good! Your cock was MUCH smaller! Perfect!"
The poor guy's face was glowing all night.
Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 5:12pm
Damn! [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley9.gif[/image]
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~ One Warrior ~
Don't block with your face!
Posted By: samoan
Date Posted: 05 April 2005 at 2:12am
That's a good one Sam, must have been Karen that said that. You should ask her about her lesbian toe.
Here's one of my stories. A while back I was teaching a group class and we were practicing defensive sidekicks on charging bagholders. I was observing a student throwing beautiful booming kicks, so I stopped everyone to have them watch this student. Sure enough he fired of about 2 kicks and I told him to spit out one more....apparently the kick wasn't the only thing he spit out. As soon as he kicked the pad, i didn't hear the thump of the pad, but an enormous fart. And after he set back down, he let out a very long very high pitched pooter. I tried really hard to ignore it, but everyone was kinda just looking at me in disbelief like, if what they just heard really happened. After what seemed like about 5 minutes of akward silence, I just lost it laughing so hard.
not a very good story, but one that sticks out.
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I come to you with empty hands...
Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 05 April 2005 at 5:01am
You know samoan, all I could see in your post was....
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samoan]...must have been Karen that said that. You should ask her about her lesbian toe.
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Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 05 April 2005 at 6:46am
hahahahahahaha!!!!
I think I said in my original post it was her. I am defintely gonna ask her tomorrow.
this isnt an embarrassing story, but it should give you a nice and strange visual.
This happened tonight actually.
we were doing speed punches on the bags - there were 3 people per bag, and 4 people on one bag - my bag. I was person number 4. so people 1 went, 2, 3, and then me. Karen says, "okay, now everyone watch sam!" I was the only person going at the time. We had been having contests that night to see who could punch in the lowest stances. Everyone kept shouting "Lower! Lower!" A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I used to be a gymnast. So, to top everyone else's lowest stances, I sunk into the middle splits, while reaching up and punching this bag. I was laughing so hard because the people in the class are all staring at me as I am doing this rediculous thing, it was hard to balance. after a little while I lost my balance and rolled backwards, and Karen, the instructor, was behind me, went to push me back up, but in the process she pushed me down - I was on the ground already but do the full splits and have someone press down - it HURTS. So I turned around and hit her legs a few times. (I had gloves on because otherwise I'll bleed)
When I managed to get back on my feet again, I got some aplause. I was told at the drinking fountain that from the angle my friend had been standing at you couldnt see my legs - I looked like I didnt have any. I guess it looked pretty funny.
my legs hurt.
Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 09 April 2005 at 12:34am
oh, another story.
This happened a few months ago. I was in a friday class with one of my friends. We had just had a really intense punching drill, and everyone was standing in line at the drinking fountain. Being the forward thinker that I am, I brought a water bottle with me. I went to get a drink and I spilled a good amount of it on the mat. I was embarrassed at my clumsiness and didn't want to hold up class to go get the mop, so I dropped to my knee (god bless cotton pants) and sopped it up. My friend was standing over me, asking for a drink because she didnt want to wait in line. I'm still on one knee, and I extend my hand to give her the bottle of water. By this time, most of the students are back in line for group class. My 'friend' looks down at me, and, accepting the water bottle, says to me,
"Yes Sam, I will marry you."
(see if I let her drink my water anymore)
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Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 09 April 2005 at 6:19am
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Posted By: boilermonster
Date Posted: 11 April 2005 at 6:59pm
A fellow (higher ranked) student offered to demonstrate "Squeezing
the Peach". Me, like the inquisitive kenpoist I am, readily agreed to
be the attacker. At one point in the technique is the ever popular
crotch grab. For some reason that night (but never again) I was not
wearing a cup. After I got my breath back, I turned to him and said,
"If you ever want to do that again, you had better buy me dinner
first."
Note: for some reason, Readers Digest was not interested in this
story, either.
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samh khanh seigh... Lo Han
Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 11 April 2005 at 10:41pm
lol, I've heard of that move - but I'd heard it as "monkey snatches peach" I heard it didnt work too well unless the guy were naked, or at least going commando
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Kenpo Addict -getting my fix 6 days a week
"I wanted to start shaking down random people, but apparently that's not legal..." (MJ_lover)
Posted By: richardd1970
Date Posted: 15 April 2005 at 10:19am
Hello all, New member here.
This topic made me laugh.
God, I swear I could write a book of all the wierd and funny things I've seen
I remember back when testing for my 1st Brown (Tracy's Kenpo) part of the test was 3 minutes whaling on the heavy bag at the end of the test. I started hammering on one of the heavy bags and the chain broke. There was a big clank and the bag hit the deck with a big thump. I stopped and looked at my instructor and he just shook his head and said to move over to the other heavy bag to finish. So I complied and proceeded to hammer on the second (and only remaining bag). The chain on this bag let go with another big clank and this bag also hit the deck. I stopped and again looked at the instructor. He was just standing there with a blank look on his face, then cover his face with one hand and shook his head for a while. Then he looks at me and says I don't know weather to pass you for that or charge you for that. He laughed about it and I passed, but it impressed the hell out of the 40 or so people watching the test.
Looking back on that I wonder what the chances of that level of metal fatigue affecting two heavy bag chains at the same time.
Just one of many fond memories of times I greatly miss.
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Truth, Honor and Loyalty in all things.
Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 16 April 2005 at 7:26pm
LOL, man, thats great. I wish I coulda seen the look on your instructor's face.
What are the chances? You must have been hitting those bags pretty hard.
Welcome to the boards... you may wanna introduce yourself to everyone... Nice to see another tracy kenpoist around...
40 people watching your test?
I've never heard of that many people watching a test.
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Kenpo Addict -getting my fix 6 days a week
"I wanted to start shaking down random people, but apparently that's not legal..." (MJ_lover)
Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 2:17pm
-- mod note --
I moved Rich's introduction to forum_posts.asp?TID=153" class="smLink - richardd1970 in the house
Below is the paragraph that relates to this topic.
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richardd1970]As far as the 40 people watching. There was always a lot of people hanging around working out and such, so when there was a test everyone moved to the side and watched. Also, and I'm sure that folks in this position know what I'm talking about. I was in the upper echelon of students in the school. When you are at that level; and by this I mean you are at the studio more than you're home, hang out after class and hit the bars with the instructors, you're told you are to be "fast tracked" to be an instructor yourself, etc. People know who you are and are curious how your test will go. I mean, I always liked to watch a good test too.
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Posted By: Rick English
Date Posted: 21 April 2005 at 6:02pm
My wife has always been extremely tough but I didn't know exactly how tough. We were dating and I introduced her to Kenpo she is five feet tall and packs a punch. When she was a blue belt she was sparring this guy that is 6'1" and the only way she could get in was to kick and then follow up with punches. Anyway they were sparring and hit shin to shin no pads and we all herd the crack. The guy went down she was in pain but no tears I was seriously impressed. She went through the rest of class limping but she made it. Anyway we get in the car and she starts crying and said please take her to the hospital. She didn't want anyone to see that she was in pain. Of course I started laughing and then we both needed to go to the hospital.
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Rick English
Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 22 April 2005 at 12:52am
Good story. What was the outcome at the hospital?
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Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 14 May 2005 at 10:43pm
I'm sure this has happened a ten thousand times in ten thousand schools, but it happened to me, today.
In sparring class, I was sparring in the ring where two hulkers had just been sparring (you know, those guys who're about 6 feet and then some, and all muscle)... anyway, the mats were pretty gross because those guys sweat everywhere. I had my right leg up in a crane and only had my left leg on the ground - I hopped in to do a wheel kick to my opponent's head... and slipped on their sweat. Everything from my left shoulder to my ankle hit the mat at the same time. Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing... I think they were all holding their breath, my fall was pretty loud.
They knew I was ok a second later when I began laughing hysterically.
One of the instructors asked for a repeat preformance, [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif[/image]
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Kenpo Addict -getting my fix 6 days a week
"I wanted to start shaking down random people, but apparently that's not legal..." (MJ_lover)
Posted By: RickM
Date Posted: 16 May 2005 at 9:39am
When I was doing my test for Black Belt we were on stage in an auditorium. We went through the basics and katas and weapons and were getting ready for the self defences when the students who had passed their higher degree black belt tests came out to perform their katas. One of the katas involved flaming torches and went quite well and was very impressive. However when we came back on stage and started to do self defences we started slipping and falling from the oil that was spread over the floor from the torches. We were sent of stage to grab towels and had to wipe down the floor and our feet.[image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley5.gif[/image]
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Success is the best revenge.
Posted By: newborn
Date Posted: 29 July 2005 at 2:35pm
Some funny and great stories here, and you're right it's a great Idea.
My friend and I where working out in my weight room. There is a ceiling fan in the room (you can see this coming, I know).
We were stretching out getting ready for our workout which involves jumping jacks.
Yep, he was to close to the fan and it wacked him on the wrist. No worries though just his pride was hurt.
Oh, by the way he is a brown belt. And I make fun that all his training never prepared him to block a fan.[image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif[/image]
Everyone take care,
Scott
Posted By: flying crane
Date Posted: 29 July 2005 at 3:37pm
This is a story my first kenpo instructor told me about 20 years ago. Obviously I didn't witness this, but he swore it was true.
In his earlier days, he spent some time training in one of the Japanese systems of Karate. Part of their training consisted of moving up and down the dojo floor, throwing a thousand or more kicks. In this particular case, they were throwing front snap kicks, and emphasis was being placed on snapping the kick back to a chambered position as fast as possible, after the kick was thrown.
Suddenly, one of the students gave out a howl, and collapsed on the floor. It seems that when he snapped the kick back, he actually kicked himself in the groin.
Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 29 July 2005 at 3:43pm
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flying crane]Suddenly, one of the students gave out a howl, and collapsed on the floor. It seems that when he snapped the kick back, he actually kicked himself in the groin.
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That was good. I actually got the visual on that one.
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Posted By: KJ88
Date Posted: 14 September 2005 at 3:34pm
At a black belt grading a while ago I was asked to sit on the panel. I watched a magnificitant display of dexterity and control. They then came up to do the full contact sparring, one individual who seem to be very good at sparring and was giving the secondaries a hard time. returned off the mat with a smile on his face must have known he was doing well he preceeded to stretch near a doorway when a little girl probably 2 or so ran out the door between the young apprentices legs and her head hit him right in the groin sending him to the ground in a pile of S***. How karma works!
Posted By: MAC1
Date Posted: 14 September 2005 at 3:57pm
my friend is a 4th dan in tae kwan do under ozzie wright. he asked me to sit on his panel to test a red belt for black.the red belt was asked questions whiched he answered, i think, when it came time for self-defense techs,i get up ,stand in front of him, yelled from the dantien reaching for his neck he froze like a deer in head lights
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jbMAC
Posted By: tke010
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 1:39pm
This is my first post to Kenpothoughts! I have been training in Shaolin Kempo now for over 5 years. I love KEMPO!
I was 17 years old. I was friend's party from high school. I got into an arguement with some football player (bigger than me at the time). While trying to talk my way out of it, this guy tries to hit me. I stepped back at an angle and he proceeded to hit my girlfriend.
Well, my girlfried (brown belt at the time) attacked him. He fought back, to no avail. He was beaten pretty badly (so I thought at the time). Everyone laughed at him.
I was then know as the Shukokia karate guy that lets his girl fight his battles for him. It was a loooooong school year.
oh yeah, I fought the same guy for punching my girlfriend a week later. I had a much harder time with him than my girlfriend. [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley18.gif[/image]
Unfortunately, I have lost touch with my bodyguard, i mean ex girlfriend.
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Fear does not exist in this Dojo, does it? NO SENSAI!
Posted By: MAC1
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 4:06pm
thanks for sharing tke010, thatwas great hopefully you've learned from that event.
keep training....... out!!
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jbMAC
Posted By: MajesticB
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 12:14am
Perhaps not quite up to par with some of the previous stories (although one line someone said had me laughing for a good 5 minutes, something like "the big 6' tall guys who are all muscle, You know, the ones that sweat everywhere". lmao it brings back horrid memories... moving along...)
Me and my brother were sword (and by sword, I mean foam sticks) sparring, minding our own business (it was a full evening, but everybody was focusing on their own stuff). After about 1 minute of hesitant swings and blocks, my brother comes at me full bore swinging in at downward angle switching sides at each attack. I kept blocking each of these. Anyways, this goes on for about 30 seconds (seemed like a lot longer). Neither of us wanted to change our strategy, seeing as it would leave us open for an attack, until my brother suddenly does a leg sweep with his "sword". I proceed to jump over it and crack him over the head.
As soon as that happens, cheers ring out across the Dojo, and my brother and I realize that people had been watching us for apparently quite some time. Lol, that was a good day.
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Posted By: Samantha
Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 8:50am
You mean this? :grins:
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Samantha]
In sparring class, I was sparring in the ring where two hulkers had just been sparring (you know, those guys who're about 6 feet and then some, and all muscle)... anyway, the mats were pretty gross because those guys sweat everywhere.
Anyway, good story. it's always nice when that happens - because when you KNOW their watching, you get nervous - I do, anyway. Welcome to KT, by the way.
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Kenpo Addict -getting my fix 6 days a week
"I wanted to start shaking down random people, but apparently that's not legal..." (MJ_lover)
Posted By: pan0phobik
Date Posted: 31 December 2005 at 3:47am
I remember in my 2nd class way back when I was 8 years old having the wind knocked out of me due to my own ignorance.
What was going on is they had all the students stand in a line that spanned across the school and hold their chest/stomach muscles tight and one of the instructors would walk past and give a medium-power crack to the stomach with a foam covered bat (atleast I think that's what it was) to each student. I wasn't paying attention so I was sitting there relaxed staring into nothingless when it came to be my turn and got the wind knocked out of me pretty good, haha. Everyone who witnessed it probably won't forget it.
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Another interesting memory I have was when I was sparring with one of the black belts at my school. We were bouncing around all over in the front half of the school going at it with a decent amount of spontanaity. Medium-story short, I threw out a fast snap kick and he blocked it so hard it bounced my heel the total opposite direction and my foot was stuck in the wall right between the locker rooms. I didn't even care what happened to my foot. I had punctured a hole in the sacred wall of my school and was in fear of having the same done to me by Mr. Sav. Haha.
Posted By: One Warrior
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 5:17pm
[image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley32.gif[/image] wow, When I started this topic I never imagined it being so popular! I am glad that we all have so many funny things to share.
Keeo it up folks!! Kenpo Rocks !!
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Posted By: taoist spider
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 9:26pm
As part of my training I help teach the kids Class. Yesterday as I was lining up the younger kids one of the new kids (Maybe 5 years) told me that Kimmie looked different today. When I looked over at Kimmie I noticed that she had a pink scrunchie with some beading on the edges. I commented that she did indeed have a very pretty hair ribbon today. His only response was to blush and tell me that he liked it. When I told Kimmies mom about it during her class She told me that Kimmie has noticed the boy and commented on how cute he is.
He is a “Nubie” and she is a purple belt.
Even at 5 or 6 years old guys cant resist a pretty girl who can kick their but!
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Posted By: Mouth of War
Date Posted: 17 June 2006 at 12:15am
I've been involved in two incidents that I'll never forget in class.
I had just received my orange belt and I was now training for my purple. My instructor was teaching me about relaxation - my new principle of motion. Along with teaching me how to relax, he began teaching me how to breath out hard with my strikes on "impact". I was just getting over a really bad chest cold. As I was doing some drills, he walked over to me and said, "Mike, exhale, stop holding your breath." At that moment, I threw a strike and attempted to exhale when halfway into my exhalation, I choked on an enormous loogie (clam, if you will) and it shot like a bullet onto my instructors chest. I heard the faint "thump" as it clung onto his chest and kind of just hung on for a second then fell to the mat. That was by far the most embarrassing thing in my life.
My next story was the day of my purple belt. Into my test about an hour, my instructor asked me to throw some kicks into the bag that hung from the ceiling. The bag wasn't very heavy, and that became a problem. As my adrenaline rushed through me, I kicked the bag hard enough to send it swinging towards the low ceiling. My luck, the bag swung and smashed into a 4 foot light ballast and sent the 2 long bulbs exploding over the class and over me. The test had to be cancelled and postponed until the next week, since there was millions of tiny pieces of glass embedded in the floor, my hair and my gi.
My instructor deserves an award for having so much damn patients with me.
Posted By: Zoran
Date Posted: 17 June 2006 at 10:13pm
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Mouth of War]
I had just received my orange belt and I was now training for my purple. My instructor was teaching me about relaxation - my new principle of motion. Along with teaching me how to relax, he began teaching me how to breath out hard with my strikes on "impact". I was just getting over a really bad chest cold. As I was doing some drills, he walked over to me and said, "Mike, exhale, stop holding your breath." At that moment, I threw a strike and attempted to exhale when halfway into my exhalation, I choked on an enormous loogie (clam, if you will) and it shot like a bullet onto my instructors chest. I heard the faint "thump" as it clung onto his chest and kind of just hung on for a second then fell to the mat. That was by far the most embarrassing thing in my life.
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Posted By: Sadie
Date Posted: 19 August 2006 at 2:26am
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taoist spider]
Even at 5 or 6 years old guys cant resist a pretty girl who can kick their but!
It gives the term "Knockout" a whole new meaning [image]http://www.kenpothoughts.com/forum/smileys/smiley17.gif[/image]
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Posted By: Mushu
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 12:26am
Back when I first started training another student tried to do a sissors move on my legs while supporting himself by grabbing my cheap student gi at the shoulder. The sissor move was too weak to take me down. However, the sleave of the gi tore off. He was left laying on the floor holding my sleave. The story from Mouth of War ... now that's funny. Nasty but funny.
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