[effebrala]

That's a nice way of looking at it there Tony.... or maybe it's just Catholicism...

New guys getting their hakama, sorry, "know-it-all" new guys get their hakama, whilst i'm trying to show them / tell them how to put it on they think they already know and proceed to over take my explanation. So i let them... usually muttering "well, thanks in advance for the flash of your wedding tackle" usually to dumb struck looks.... until the thing inevitably falls down. I even had one guy manage to put both legs in one hakama leg and he didn't notice. He was just amazed at how we all manged sonkyo so easily and was asking for advice on it. Hehe... Oh, and another one did the "Bruce Lee" and had the thing on backwards. i listened to my Sensei / Sempai when they were showing me how to do it.

A shame they didn't tell me how to hold in the sonkyo fart.

Multiple fallings over with toe caught in hakama are a tad embarrassing, but i get over that fairly quickly as i'm just happy i took the dive over breaking my toe... although there was that few seconds of panic when i thought i cracked my do.