Do Us All a Favor.

This post is written partly to appease the request of a certain illustrious Shodan (shodan=Japanese word for "black belt"; illustrious shodan=Mrs. B) and partly because I was gonna write this anyway when I got the time.

I will not even mention by name last Sunday's painful occurrence, it's still too fresh a wound to touch. Obviously. I won't go into reasons why--I don't even want to remember.

This last Monday I found the time to make it out to karate class (which the aforementioned certain illustrious shodan found herself absent for--a very, very rare event, I can assure you). The whole class was happily beginning the workout, when a certain purple-belt with an apparent lack of common sense decided he would talk about that occurrence-which-we-shall-not-mention.

Not only did he decide to talk about it, but he had to comment on how it was a good event-which-we-shall-not-mention.

What???? <-------(general response of a class that was filled with brown-belts and above)

Oh, he was just being "objective". Oh, he tries not to root only for one team, but appreciate the skill and good plays of everyone. Oh, we all have to admit that it was a good game, and that we don't have a right to complain, cuz it was a good game. Oh, we have admire along with him that Mann--*cough choke*--managed to--*urk*--squeeze out of a blitz.

Pffft.

I wasn't the only one annoyed. A certain illustrious Sensei was annoyed as well. In fact, he expressed his annoyance with an eloquence that I aspire to emulate. He grabbed a tanto (the short knife samurai would carry and commit suicide with--seppuku--rather than be dishonored by being captured in battle), unsheathed it, and placed it in front of the annoying purple belt.

"Do us all a favor."

(Unfortunately, Mrs. B., this was the most exciting part of the class. Combinations, stances, strikes, and self-defense are good, but not interesting.)

Anyhow, the annoying purple belt shut up.

I Shall Return!

As you may have noticed, I haven't posted very much.

Please bear with me, I am still in the process of college application, I should be done soon and back up and blogging.

I don't really have time for a nice, juicy, interesting post as of yet, but I still have a little snippet for those of you who are so bored as to be reading this right now. Mrs. B. may find it interesting, I'm not so sure the rest of you will though. Today's karate class was really interesting. Actually, about five minutes of it were REALLY interesting, the rest was interesting but not the above-average stuff (knife defense, cool, but not the mind-boggling concepts that I find so intriguing). I'm having a hard time describing it, so I guess I'll sum it up by saying we were introduced to the concept of moving in ways the other person can't really see. Yes I know that doesn't make sense, I really still don't know squat about it myself. My karate instructor himself doesn't fully get it yet I think, although it's certain that he knows enough to use it. He described being first introduced to it when he was working with one of his old karate instructors. He said he worked four hours straight with the guy, and no matter what he did, he couldn't touch him. And the only movement he'd see was his foot turning and stuff like that. So obviously, he asked him how it was done and he had it explained to him, and today he suddenly surprised us with the same knowledge, which he condensed into five minutes.

Anyhow, right now my brain is reeling with this newfound difficult concept, making me feel again that getting my black belt will only mean that I'll begin to truly understand karate.

Sorry that this wasn't that great of a post, I really don't have time for anything better right now.

But, fret not thou faint-hearted! I shall return, with more new and interesting posts to boot!

Until then, hang in there.