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[chickenboy100]

I play guitar, too! I'm going to learn fingerpicking soon, hopefully.

Cool!!

 

[ChirpChickens]

I play guitar, too! I'm going to learn fingerpicking soon, hopefully.

oh its so fun!

 

[NinjaRooster]

I've always wanted to play the violin.

 

[SilverDragon]

I play guitar, too! I'm going to learn fingerpicking soon, hopefully.

Good luck! It's really fun!

 

[chickenboy100]

I've always wanted to play the violin.

I do too, but from what I've heard, it's really hard...

 

[SilverDragon]

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lol
I was the only black belt in my class and Sensai would always use me in demonstrations. I even got to help him present the new belts and stripes to the other passing students. I have lots of great stories of when we trained together but probably one of the most memorable for me is the time I got punched full force.
We were demonstrating the parry/punch performance, a slow-starting-but-rapidly-growing-in-speed-test-of-mental-and-physical-skill.
It starts out with one person vertical punching at the other person's face, they parry with one hand and then immediately punch with the other at the first persons face. This is repeated over and over...then the instructor yells, "Switch!" and the pattern is reversed, the hand that punched now parries and vica-versa.
Anyway...it was really fun but hard on both of us...we just kept going faster and faster until our hands were a blur. One slip and we would get punched in the face....
Well...the other class members were standing around us in a circle watching, when one kid just collapsed....right there on the dojo floor. (turns out he was just doing it for fun but i am a tender hearted soul no matter what I may seem like on the outside) Sensai and I both looked over and said, "Oh, are you okay!?"
But he didn't stop his last punch! To this day I do not know why....
It hit me right in the head and I fell like a bunch of bricks. It hurt but I was up on my feet again in an instant rubbing my eye. Sensai looked at me and said, "You okay?" almost without emotion....when we had both been really scared for this other kid who had been faking it!!!
I JUST GOT PUNCHED FULL FORCE TO THE FACE AND YOU JUST ASK, "You okay?" !!!!!!
I was bleeding but I just shrugged and threw a punch back and we started up the parry punch thing again.
The demonstration stopped after a bit, we bowed to each other, (mine was a bit wobbly because I was still dizzy) and he excused me to go clean up my head. I had a black eye but I wasn't hurt THAT bad...
After class he pulled me over for a talk and I will never forget what he said...
He told me that he was sorry for punching me, glad I wasn't his enemy, and proud of the way I handled myself and was able to simply move on. He told me that most kids my age, (12) would have just got mad, started to cry maybe, and refused to go on. He told me that if I ever got to a place in my life where I had to face something hard that I felt like I could not accomplish...that I should look back at the time I stood back up and kept fighting. To remember all the times I accomplished something...made the right choice....that can give me the power to make the right decisions once more.
And I mean too....

 

[SilverDragon]

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It's one of the hardest instruments you could play.....but SO WORTH IT!!!!! It is really fun. It takes YEARS of practice but totally worth it....

 

[ChirpChickens]

lol the only instrument that i REALLY know about is the flute

 

[SilverDragon]

lol the only instrument that i REALLY know about is the flute

I WANT TO OWN A FLUTE SO BAD! One of my cousins has one and I have played it before. Oh....love it.

 

[ChirpChickens]

I WANT TO OWN A FLUTE SO BAD! One of my cousins has one and I have played it before. Oh....love it.

i admit i started with the sax but i got tired of carrying it to and from school every day! lol changed to the lightest instrument lol i love it tho