- When my massages get too painful, I have to fight the instinct to tap out at the masseuse.
- I have a tendency to open swinging bathroom doors with a kokyu-ho extension of my hand blades.
- Sometimes I find myself practicing various aikido hand positions in my cube at work.
- Long power outages at work make me want to do weapons suburi in the semi-abandoned parking lot.
- I think about aikido: while working, while driving, and while sleeping.
- Instead of counting sheep, I sometimes recite aikido techniques to sleep.
- I've waken myself up from a dream of a break-fall by slapping the mattress.
- I've thwacked my significant other and even myself in my sleep as my body executes some random technique on subconscious auto-drive.
- When I'm at one end of a long hallway, I have the sudden urge to get to the other end by doing forward rolls.
- I've taken to holding my kitchen knives the way I hold my bokken: distinctly with knuckles on top.
- I've effortlessly (and accidentally) sliced clear through the plastic container of a yogurt drink bottle trying to cut through the plastic encasing. I blame bokken suburi #1.
- I once used a shomenuchi strike at a store to keep a falling baking soda packet from konking me on the head. The packet ended up bouncing off my fingertips and landing in my shopping cart.
- A coworker almost ran me over while riding a Razor scooter too fast through the building, and to save myself, I clipped him in the gut with an atemi.
- I hydroplaned on a wet bathroom floor and managed to catch myself on the sink counter before falling.
- I beat up a vending machine that stole the last of my change while I was starving. By repeatedly striking it with my hand blades using a kokyu-ho extension, I managed to get it to cough up my bag of potato chips.
- I now have use for athletic tape.
- I've had discoloration, callouses, mat burns, skin gouges, and scars on my feet from sitting seiza and taking ukemi.
- About half an hour before class starts, even on the days when there is no class, my body gears itself up with an adrenaline rush.
- Some nights coming back from training, I've passed out over my dinner.
- Showing off and comparing bruises with classmates have become an acceptable and entertaining pasttime.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Why I Know I Have Aikido Issues, List 2
More epiphanies that reveal why I'm an aikido junkie. This is a follow-up to List 1.
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