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Top Ten Signs you're in a McDojang


10. You instructor has a Grandmasters Certificate. In Crayon.

9. The techniques are only effective if your attacker is one of the Three Stooges

8. The sign in the window says the school trains in more than 10 martial arts.

7. The "uniforms" are used hospital gowns

6. Your instructor tries to sell you Amway products.

5. While examining the schools tournament trophies, you find 3 for spelling bees.

4. Reading the contract for the school is considered a taeguk (and a long one at that).

3. Local muggers gather in the parking lot waiting for class to end.

2. While at a tournament, your opponent finds out who your teacher is and high-fives his teacher.

1. No one sweats.

Tags: Funny

You Know You've Been In the Martial Arts Too Long When...

* you say to the salesman in the men's store, "Nice pants, but I don't think
I can kick in them."

* when you want to say "I'm sorry" and involuntarily bow.

* you go to the shoe store to try on shoes.

* Instead of walking or jogging around the store, you practice pivoting,
sweeps, stances and kicks.

* You check to see if the shoe has a sufficiently hard striking surface and
whether it protects the toes well

* and lastly, you don't even care if (and they probably are) the other
patrons are looking at you funny. (That's the big clue)

* Now when every time you pass a wall you start to wonder:'Is that
structural or drywall?' THEN you know you've gone overboard.

* When you hit your head on a low doorway or ceiling and kick it in anger
and _damage_ it.

* "GAK! NO! The *left* side of the bathrobe goes on top...."

* "What was I doing in my office when I was spinning around and flailing my
arms and legs? Ahhhhhmmmmmmm....."

*  when you're practicing your arm blocks while driving down the highway,
notice someone in another car staring at you, and suddenly turn your block
into vigorously fanning away an imaginary fly

* when you use various strikes to turn lights off and on;

* don your clothing with kicks, thrusts, and punches

* open and close doors with spinning kicks

* find yourself idly doing iaido and kenjitsu moves with the plastic knives
at the fast food place

* can't walk by anybody else from your school without casually exchanging a
flurry of mock strikes and kicks

* haven't gotten over the phase of seeing everybody walking around with a
blanket of little red cross-hairs on all their vital spots

* leap to your feet and shriek with indignation while watching "Kung Fu",
"Walker, Texas Ranger", and "Highlander" at home

* deliberately go to see martial arts movies in the theater so you can leap
to your feet and shriek with indignation during the movie, out in the
parking lot, and with all your friends the next time you're at class

* find yourself practicing bo staff techniques in miniature with your pencil
during dull meetings

* try to backfist the correct floor button on the inside of the elevator,
based on your memory of the button's location, before you get in far enough
to see it

* notice you never stand with your arms crossed or your hands in your
pockets

* tend to keep at least one flavour of martial arts weapon close at hand by
your bed when you sleep

* buy shoes either because they're particularly flexible or have steel toes

* have at least one fantasy where you are a martial arts hero and end the
fight by saying something *so* cool that you make Arnold Shwarzenegger and
Clint Eastwood look like nervous chatterboxes

* have begun to master the reflex to commit a very messy homicide when,
directly after someone finds out you practice martial arts, they immediately
ask "Are you a Black Belt ???"

* Urge to bow every time I enter or leave a room? Uh, not anymore,
thankfully.

* I used to accidentally call one of my favorite professors 'sensei' with
fair regularity, and I don't think I'll ever stop saying 'hai!' instead of
'yes!'.

* When standing in line you find yourself practicing some stance from your
art

* When you bow going into and out of the bathroom

* When you don't use any tools while splitting firewood.

* When you are introduced to someone and you bow to greet them.

* Whenever you see some wood or concrete, even things like stools or
tables, and get excited while you picture just how you would go about
breaking it. Then you get funny looks as you feel it and give it a look of
hard concentration, then maybe measure off a few times.

Tags: Funny

02/07/08--friday morning i woke up early, really early like at 4:45am.. i couldn't fall back asleep, i was going to be sparring in a couple of hours..i sort of went into a half sleep thinking about the upcoming fights, going over different scenarios with the most likely fellow students who might show up for friday morning fight class..after about 20 min i gave up trying to sleep, got dressed and made a good breakfast. as i was finishing my coffee i had a revelation about sparring. it hit me that i was always tryng to figure out what moves to use when..and what to do if this and that happens..but all i really have to do is go out and have fun and it will come naturally..this morning i sparred like ive never done before..i always have fun when i spar, but today i just didnt care about being perfect, i just went with the flow.....u know what? it was great!!! i was seeing things before they happened, like attacks and defenses..kicks and punches thrown at me seemed slow and uncoordinated, while i had some combos that just came from nowhere...i remember reading somewhere about a warrior state of mind that can be achieved that reminds me of what i experienced today..not just a good day sparring, but the feeling of transcending into something 'better', just for a while...pretty freaking cool!!

Tags: Sparring