Here is one that should get everyone laughing let’s hear your best stories of how you kicked your own #$$. I’ll start, and add to this thread occasionally, because unfortunately I have alot of these stories.
I was teaching at the old school. We had been going for about a half an hour when I decided it was time to teach knees. I talked to everyone about thrusting your hips forward into the strike and then turned everyone loose to work. Nobody was doing it correctly. So I said you need to do it like this (this is important because I am now about to demonstrate the proper way to do the knee and I have focused the classes attention on myself.) As I drove my right knee up with all my strength, I stepped forward with my left leg. My left foot (the one that usually goes in my mouth) landed in the exact spot Senior Instructor Lee had been doing pushups for the last half hour, let’s call it Lake Malin. My demonstration of how to throw a knee ended up with me landing not on my rear, not on my back but a full 180 degrees onto my neck and head.
About four years ago, towards the beginning of my training, I was learning a technique with an uppercut elbow. Well, as my elbow swung up, my fist hit me in the mouth. To add to it, I had braces at the time and cut my knuckle on my teeth.
Another time, I did the knee thrust to the fall on back technique.
I was once experimenting with a friend’s nunchucks (which I’d never really used- I just treated them like a stick). I hit a heavy bag, and it bounced off and hit me in the forehead (which would have been less than ideal form even if it had been a stick).
Another time I was walking through a doorway with a rattan stick, and held it up so it was parallel with the ground. The tip stuck in a notch in the doorframe as my momentum continued forward, and I kind of impaled my groin on the butt end of the stick (this was after training).
Any other stories I have are either subconsciously repressed or head trauma prevents me from remembering.
Big Lee is pretty sneaky with those “lake” attacks. I just know y’all have been waiting for my post because I am pretty sure I have kicked my own $*? more than anyone else in the school. Lets see, there was the time I scratched my own eye while doing an eye flick during fingerset, oh what about the time I cracked myself in the head with my staff, or even better when I was punching the headache bag and missed, swung all the way around the bag and hit myself in the face. And the piece de resistance… I walked into the muscle up rings and gave myself a black eye. I don’t need Dashutterbug to ‘head hunt’ me.. I scare the h*&* out of myself. 8<>
Does it count if you throw your car door open because you’re jumping out to go help someone in a fight that you: bump your head on the door jamb, your pant’s pocket snags on the door lock, you stumble, double over…the door slams backwards and your chin and lower lip get impaled on the outer edge of the door….? :oops:
Funny you’d mention that- just a few days ago I was rushing into a car and happened to slam my chin on the edge of the open door. The first thing I thought was “so this is what a bareknuckle uppercut feels like”. Not quite som cartoonish, but still notable.
Another training incident I thought of- I was practicing a two man form with my instructor, and there’s a section where I’m supposed to do an upward x/scissor/fork block against this big downward backfist. My block was not high enough, and I was hit right between the eyes. I was surprised at the power of it, but even more surprised that it really didn’t hurt that much (but I felt it in my nose and sinuses later that night).
While impressing myself with the speed of my hands,
doing techniques, I have hit myself in the face or on & about the head several times ....Yes, this is why I no longer move so fast….right.
Kodiak, that is precisely the kind of thing we are looking for. I hope everybody understands this is my way of saying don’t take yourself to seriously.
About 10 years ago I was out running. I was pushing Connor in a jogging stroller. A huge Rotti bounded into the street and charged us. I had my escrima stick so I promptly double tapped him across the snout. The dog tucked his tail and ran. Feeling pretty proud of myself I spun my stick around in the flashiest way I know how, promptly smacking myself in the face. It resulted in a knot on my head, a black eye, and a bloody nose. :oops:
One time I was playing raquetball in our fitness center. It’s a big glassed in square court. I opened the door to run out for water, took off at an angle to save time, and smacked the bridge of my nose (with glasses on) into one of the arms of the L-sit aparatus (that’s the one where you hold your arms on the machine and lift both legs into an L, right?).
OUCH! That hurt and it was embarrassing as there was a gym full of people that day. And I had a sore nose for a week. My glasses made it through the trauma, though.
Finally everybody else is posting- for a long time, mine was it. Am I the only one with these issues, I thought.
You’re lucky that you managed to hit the dog before it latched on to anything. Myself included, I know a few people who could tell you that once a canine latches on, its hard to get off. When I was younger a coyote latched onto my foot and I was taken to the ground. I started kicking it in the head as hard as I could with my other foot, and the thing didn’t even blink (but I think it caused its teeth to move around more), leaving some cut-like scars that are cool to bring up during injury show off times like in Jaws when the guys are in the bar. Other people have had similar experiences where multiple full power running soccer kicks to the head and jaw aren’t effective in making them let go. An animal control person said that if it has attacked people before and its a known biter(of people), you can kill it and they will come to pick up the body.
Anyway, didn’t want to bring anyone down. Take it away, signature.
The Time I kicked my own #$$. Was when I was sparring and I wasn’t wearing a cup. It was my orange belt test. I knocked the kid down on the ground and while he fell his legs flew up in the air and kicked me right in the nuts I must have been crying for 2 minutes and we have it on tape.
Well this was really an “overworkout” kicking of my own ____
Jeff told me to moderate perhaps go to lighter weights- but NOOOO
I had to stay with the same weight the whole workout. I was crippled for three maybe four days. Anyway you all can easily avoid this by listening to Jeff is he quietly mentions that you may want to tone down the workout, or some of you may not have lost the self preservation gene that has not been naturally selected out of my line- but will be shortly no doubt !
