All the following instructors and students shall remain nameless in order to protect
the innocent, and the not-so innocent, and the stupid.
Hey, this full contact is dangerous stuff!
Thanks to Adam http://www.a4dinoz.co.uk
for picture edit.
New beginnings
In the early seventies, an Korean ITF Master starts a class in Coventry, after several
months of training, the students, getting rather confident, respectfully ask the Master
about their first grading. The Master ends the lesson by saying "You all work very
hard,congratulations, you now promoted to brown belt, please get own belts for next
lesson"
The students duly organise a mass purchase of brown belts, the next lesson comes, and
they all stand there, chests stuck out, very proud of their new status. The master takes
the class but is clearly not happy, he points to the belts and says "why you
wear?", a brave soul pipes up, "you asked us to get our own belts"
"No, I say brown belts"
"But these are brown belts"
"No, I said brown, the colour of blood!"
Thunder
At the end of a long and hard training session involving a hard core of regular people,
the un-named instructor (you know who you are) has the undivided attention of the class. A
cool-down is initiated, and the students are expecting a short period of meditation. The
instructor asks us all to sit down and follow his actions, we lean backwards until flat on
the floor and begin raising our extended legs upwards. The instructor brings his legs up
to the vertical and continues onward slowly, and asks us to control our stomach muscles
until we can perform the next action. He then lets rip with a fantastic comedy bottom
cough, and we realise he has just been winding all of us up. It's all very juvenile, but I
defy anyone not to laugh in such a situation.
Juggle
One of my favourite phrases for beginners is "change arms and legs" when they
get out of step with the rest of the class, some people have a lot of trouble with this,
and the third or fourth time they will get asked to "change arms and legs, preferably
with someone who can do taekwondo!"
Help
Got any good stories, well I could use them, in fact if you read the ones above you'll
realise I'm probably desperate for material, so e-mail me with the stuff and i'll give you
full credit (or anonymity if you want!)
comic@sabonim.com
