Embarrassing moments in martial arts

[Ghost]

For me the one that i remember recently was meeting Enson "Yamato Damashii" Inoue and not knowing who he was. I spent a whole afternoon chatting to him at a gym in bangkok, turns out he learnt his standup there. I had to ask him what he did exactly and he told me.
Eventually i got an invite to his gym in Japan which i took him up on briefly.
I asked him if he ever fought anyone famous and he told me he beat Randy Couture.
It then dawned on me that i should really have some idea who he is..lol nevermind felt a bit dim especially after i looked him up and found out he was fairly well known lol.

Thats very typical of me.

While demonstrating a teep(push kick) towards a girl some crap ( not literally crap i mean dirt) flew off my foot which had obviously come from the floor and it went in her mouth. Perfectly into her mouth.
I could have died. luckily she is now my gf but thats another story lol. She still teases me about it now.

Anything ever embarrassed you?

[Ghost]

Oh yeah. Farting horribly after and while being thrown hard to the mat in Aikido class.

how did i just know that you did Aikido, what is it with you guys and your washed out recycled looking gi's.
GET A NEW ONE.

[Ghost]

Democrat-Aikido-vegetarian!

I gotta make sure I fit all the stereotypes that I can!!

And to answer your question, I don't know why so many Aikidoka have ugly old uniforms. It must be a japanese thing. Many Karate black belts have old, faded belts that are almost white with age. BJJ guys are always clean and neat, by comparison.

PS, I also do BJJ and kickboxing, not just Aikido.

ah ok, do you find you can mix the Aikido well with the BJJ at all, i dont know much about Aikido, i mean i know what its about and have seen it but i dont know a lot.

[Britt]

Let one slip in class? Four word solution: say very matter-of-factly, "that was the mat." Always blame the squeaky mat. Even if it obviously wasn't, it's funny and breaks the tension.

[Bjjexpertise@be]

I had a mounted backwards triangle on an opponent once and was working on the kimura. He had a death grip on his shorts with the arm I was trying to Kimura so it didn't seem like I was going to get anywhere anytime soon. I was working it and working it when eventually I "accidentally" farted on his face, which in turn caused him to release his grip on his shorts and i got the kimura :-/.

[Guest]

About 12 years ago I was at a Pedro Sauer seminar, we were working the butterfly guard. Pedro was starting to walk closer to us so my training partner thought it would be funny to put a toe lock on me....not knowing that my big toe had been broken 4 months earlier. He wrenched it and it snapped, and I let out the loudest most girly scream in known history...YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

The room fell silent, the whole seminar stopped and looked, deeply concerned at the grevious injury that had taken place. Pedro looked at me and said "Oh my lord, are you OK??" I looked up at this grappling legend, and in between the whimpers of pain, I whispered the words...

"he pulled my toe, Pedro".

[Liberty]

I was 14. I was at a cousin's house. We were working out in his dinning room, when I side-kicked him him into the China cabinet. My aunt blew her top, chased me into the bathroom and pounded me with a broom. At the time, we lived next door to each other, my mom heard what was going on, came over and they both pounded me! Probably one of the best beatings I've ever encountered - LOL!

[Britt]

"he pulled my toe, Pedro".

I can't say exactly why, but that line is incredibly funny.