[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.

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At the end of class one day when the class leader called "Mokuso" (sp?) i held my handsa a little low. One of the sensei let me know in front of every one that it was held a little higher. "hold here, Looks like going to bathroom down here" I think is what he said. we were all laughing so hard it was difficult not to fall over. I always heard you were supposed to strive for sensei's attention, but i dont think that is what they are talking about.

Also once while training in Judo, we were learning how to break an arm bar



as the guy i had in an armbar struggled to free himself, I strained to hold on and darned near blew his head off...If you know what i mean. I never saw himn again. I have never been more embarrased in my life, and i have done some stupid stuff. On a possitive note he did get out of the arm bar, almost immediately.

PS i have never mentioned this incident since it happened. but it is time to come clean.....so to speak.

[Yarikoff]

I heard about this incident but I didn't see it. At my dojo one our members was doing kirakaeshi or something. He noticed some brown stuff on his hakama and needless to say it wasn't chocolate. He went back to the locker room to wash it off. He noticed on the bench in the locker room there was a trail of poo from the bench to the stall. Later he realized after iaido practice he didn't notice he laid his hakama on the bench to take off his obi before kendo practice. But imagine having people think you dropped load in your hakama.