Laugh it off

Michael O Leary

After having hit myself on the head with my Escrima stick while demonstrating a movement in front of my class two weeks ago I thought it would make an interesting thread if any other instructors/students wanted to share any embarrassing moments while teaching/practising martial arts.

Regards all,

Michael O'Leary
www.wingtsun-escrima.ie

pma-ire

it has to be falling on my coccyx while warming up at the back of class doing leg swings!!

though i could'int sit down properly for about a year afterwards!!

i p!ssed myself laughing at the time as it really only started to hurt bad when i got home and tried to sit down

Le Rack

I've fallen on my ass numerous times, doing leg swings and jump back turning kicks and stuff I usually sit in a pile on the floor, too busy laughing to get back up....
I kicked or kneed myself in the head one time doing a kick... hurt but was funny...

Michael O Leary

pma-ire wrote:

it has to be falling on my coccyx while warming up at the back of class doing leg swings!!

though i could'int sit down properly for about a year afterwards!!

i p!ssed myself laughing at the time as it really only started to hurt bad when i got home and tried to sit down

Sorry, I know that must have been really painful but I am pissing myself laughing now

Good post, fair balls to you.

Regards,

Michael O'Leary
www.wingtsun-escrima.ie

Le Rack

Is it really that easy to break the coccyx? My instrucotr is always saying to me, he broke his, but he always gives out to us if we just collapse onto our ass' to do sit ups and the likes?

Clive

Well I got really drunk, ate 100 chicken nuggets, and fell on my head (on concrete) from well over ten feet while trying to do the splits upside-down on a bouncy climbing frame.

The next day I was teaching and started going through forms - for some odd reason I couldn't remember large chunks of them. Eventually, after skipping the first few moves of one and being stuck a few moves later, I got someone else to take over and show the beginners the damn things. :eek:

Le Rack

Clive wrote:

Well I got really drunk, ate 100 chicken nuggets, and fell on my head (on concrete) from well over ten feet while trying to do the splits upside-down on a bouncy climbing frame.

The next day I was teaching and started going through forms - for some odd reason I couldn't remember large chunks of them. Eventually, after skipping the first few moves of one and being stuck a few moves later, I got someone else to take over and show the beginners the damn things. :eek:

concussion???
that's pretty funny, sorry...

Michael O Leary

Le Rack wrote:

I've fallen on my ass numerous times, doing leg swings and jump back turning kicks and stuff I usually sit in a pile on the floor, too busy laughing to get back up....
I kicked or kneed myself in the head one time doing a kick... hurt but was funny...

Jeez, that is funny. I am trying to imagine how you did it (and can't):)

I remember years ago we used to train WT in the martial arts academy in Leeson Street and as the front room was small there was not much distance between the instructor and the students. It was early Saturday morning and we were doing a warm up by jogging on the spot and I must have been out on the beer the night before because I gagged :eek: and "nearly" puked on my instructor who was standing about 3 feet away from me.

I got the fright of my life while he was blissfully unaware of the danger he was in.

Michael O'Leary
www.wingtsun-escrima.ie

pma-ire

Le Rack wrote:

Is it really that easy to break the coccyx? My instrucotr is always saying to me, he broke his, but he always gives out to us if we just collapse onto our ass' to do sit ups and the likes?

it's nasty to even bruse the area never mind break it!!

Le Rack

Michael O Leary wrote:

Jeez, that is funny. I am trying to imagine how you did it (and can't):)

I remember years ago we used to train WT in the martial arts academy in Leeson Street and as the front room was small there was not much distance between the instructor and the students. It was early Saturday morning and we were doing a warm up by jogging on the spot and I must have been out on the beer the night before because I gagged :eek: and "nearly" puked on my instructor who was standing about 3 feet away from me.

I got the fright of my life while he was blissfully unaware of the danger he was in.

Michael O'Leary
www.wingtsun-escrima.ie

hehe! Yeah I still can't figure it out but I remember kinda knocking myself back a step from it! And my instructor looking funny at me!

Is it also true, that if the coccyx area is massaged correctly, it is very erotic to the male of the species? Tried but never quite got there...

Clive

Le Rack wrote:

concussion???
that's pretty funny, sorry...

LOL, that's actually the short version. The full story is even worse.

Le Rack

Clive wrote:

LOL, that's actually the short version. The full story is even worse.

right-oh...

pma-ire

Le Rack wrote:

Is it also true, that if the coccyx area is massaged correctly, it is very erotic to the male of the species? Tried but never quite got there...

my god young lady :eek:

this is not the time and place to be discussing such things!!

Le Rack

I'm just asking....
you brought it up! Technically!
It's a big nervous centre for the penis afaik....
ah well night!

dlofnep

I burped once.. That was pretty embarassing.

memphis

I think the funniset thing that happened to me was while sparring I got a good kick where the sun don't shine, while I was down rolling about on the floor in agony my instructor walked over and said really sarcastically "Oh..... I have that groin guard you ordered in the boot of my car for ya"....!!!!

I didn't know whether I was to laugh or cry!!!

Millionaire

back about 10 years ago, when doing a good bit of FC kickboxing.

was asked (names ommitted to protect the guility) to do a fight abroad at very short notice. was told it was a mickey mouse fight, and was to be viewed as a free weekend away expenses paid and a few beer etc.

I was not in fight training mode for a few months in run up to this, and was told no worries. you got nothing to worry about.

arrived to the place. coach took me out for a "few pints" night before, assuring me, it was more of a demo type fight. (I was thinking a fun road or 2 n some wee church hall, helping a beginer along sort of thing)

day of fight after a hetice day sight seeing (and sore head) junk food, and sitting in the sun . we arrived at the fight venue....

well...

massive hall over 1000 seats laid out, ring set up, promoters in tuxs, sexy ring gals. oh damn me though.

end up fighing a traveller, whose next fight was the european title fight.
bout had to be stopped serveral times for me to power puke over the ropes.
got a right old hammering, but hey I did not stop, nor give up and he did not knock me out.

looking back on it now (and the vid of it) is so funny! you can still here the roars of me puking over the noise of the crowd, and lots of giggles in the crowd!

I guess at the time, with busted nose and spinning head, after the bout, was more llike an irish lamb to the slaughter!!!!! (an not so funny)