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[ChirpChickens]

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

is saving for a professional open holed flute

 

[NinjaRooster]

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....

Now that is an impressive story!

 

[SilverDragon]

 


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....

Now that is an impressive story!

Thanks...I just got all sentimental all of a sudden....
I really miss my Sensai....

 

[NinjaRooster]

Thanks...I just got all sentimental all of a sudden....
I really miss my Sensai....

how come...?

 

[SilverDragon]

Thanks...I just got all sentimental all of a sudden....

I really miss my Sensai....

how come...?

Well...a few years ago my Sensai didn't have enough paying students to manage the rent for the dojo....he had to leave and find another place to teach. But he never really did. His eyesight started to fail him and I kind of lost touch with him. I miss him really bad. He was my only friend in a time when I had none.
I am not really ashamed to admit it but I am really crying right now. I don't cry easily. I don't cry when I get hurt...never really have.
but I guess I just miss a man who was my Sensai and one of the best influences in my entire life.
I'm sorry...I don't know why I'm telling you all of this. Stupid mutterings!
He was just more than my Sensai...he was my friend. And its hard when you loose touch with a really close friend.

 

[NinjaRooster]

Well...a few years ago my Sensai didn't have enough paying students to manage the rent for the dojo....he had to leave and find another place to teach. But he never really did. His eyesight started to fail him and I kind of lost touch with him. I miss him really bad. He was my only friend in a time when I had none.
I am not really ashamed to admit it but I am really crying right now. I don't cry easily. I don't cry when I get hurt...never really have.
but I guess I just miss a man who was my Sensai and one of the best influences in my entire life.
I'm sorry...I don't know why I'm telling you all of this. Stupid mutterings!
He was just more than my Sensai...he was my friend. And its hard when you loose touch with a really close friend.

Aww... I'm sorry about that

 

[chickenboy100]

Well...a few years ago my Sensai didn't have enough paying students to manage the rent for the dojo....he had to leave and find another place to teach. But he never really did. His eyesight started to fail him and I kind of lost touch with him. I miss him really bad. He was my only friend in a time when I had none.
I am not really ashamed to admit it but I am really crying right now. I don't cry easily. I don't cry when I get hurt...never really have.
but I guess I just miss a man who was my Sensai and one of the best influences in my entire life.
I'm sorry...I don't know why I'm telling you all of this. Stupid mutterings!
He was just more than my Sensai...he was my friend. And its hard when you loose touch with a really close friend.

Basicaly same thing happened with my guiatar teacher, not enough students, so he had to find another job...

 

[SilverDragon]

Thank you, Ninja.
Thank you

 

[SilverDragon]

Well...a few years ago my Sensai didn't have enough paying students to manage the rent for the dojo....he had to leave and find another place to teach. But he never really did. His eyesight started to fail him and I kind of lost touch with him. I miss him really bad. He was my only friend in a time when I had none.

I am not really ashamed to admit it but I am really crying right now. I don't cry easily. I don't cry when I get hurt...never really have.

but I guess I just miss a man who was my Sensai and one of the best influences in my entire life.

I'm sorry...I don't know why I'm telling you all of this. Stupid mutterings!

He was just more than my Sensai...he was my friend. And its hard when you loose touch with a really close friend.

Basicaly same thing happened with my guiatar teacher, not enough students, so he had to find another job...

I'm so sorry to hear that!!! I understand that loss....I'm so sorry.

 

[chickenboy100]

I'm so sorry to hear that!!! I understand that loss....I'm so sorry.

Thanks, sorry about your sensi