You know you have been doing MA too long if ;

* You go on holliday and leave your spare towel to make room for your gi. Just in case

* you say to the salesman in the men's store, "Nice pants, but I don't think
I can kick in them."

* when you want to say "I'm sorry" and involuntarily bow.

* you go to the shoe store to try on shoes.

* Instead of walking or jogging around the store, you practice pivoting,
sweeps, stances and kicks.

* You check to see if the shoe has a sufficiently hard striking surface and
whether it protects the toes well

* and lastly, you don't even care if (and they probably are) the other
patrons are looking at you funny. (That's the big clue)

* Now when every time you pass a wall you start to wonder:'Is that
structural or drywall?' THEN you know you've gone overboard.

* When you hit your head on a low doorway or ceiling and kick it in anger
and _damage_ it.

* "GAK! NO! The *left* side of the bathrobe goes on top...."

* "What was I doing in my office when I was spinning around and flailing my
arms and legs? Ahhhhhmmmmmmm....."

* when you're practicing your arm blocks while driving down the highway,
notice someone in another car staring at you, and suddenly turn your block
into vigorously fanning away an imaginary fly

* when you use various strikes to turn lights off and on;

* don your clothing with kicks, thrusts, and punches

* open and close doors with spinning kicks

* find yourself idly doing iaido and kenjitsu moves with the plastic knives
at the fast food place

* can't walk by anybody else from your school without casually exchanging a
flurry of mock strikes and kicks

* haven't gotten over the phase of seeing everybody walking around with a
blanket of little red cross-hairs on all their vital spots

* leap to your feet and shriek with indignation while watching "Kung Fu",
"Walker, Texas Ranger", and "Highlander" at home

* deliberately go to see martial arts movies in the theater so you can leap
to your feet and shriek with indignation during the movie, out in the
parking lot, and with all your friends the next time you're at class

* find yourself practicing bo staff techniques in miniature with your pencil
during dull meetings

* try to backfist the correct floor button on the inside of the elevator,
based on your memory of the button's location, before you get in far enough
to see it

* notice you never stand with your arms crossed or your hands in your
pockets

* tend to keep at least one flavour of martial arts weapon close at hand by
your bed when you sleep

* buy shoes either because they're particularly flexible or have steel toes

* have at least one fantasy where you are a martial arts hero and end the
fight by saying something *so* cool that you make Arnold Shwarzenegger and
Clint Eastwood look like nervous chatterboxes

* have begun to master the reflex to commit a very messy homicide when,
directly after someone finds out you practice martial arts, they immediately
ask "Are you a Black Belt ???"

* Urge to bow every time I enter or leave a room? Uh, not anymore,
thankfully.

* I used to accidentally call one of my favorite professors 'sensei' with
fair regularity, and I don't think I'll ever stop saying 'hai!' instead of
'yes!'.

* When standing in line you find yourself practicing some stance from your
art

* When you bow going into and out of the bathroom

* When you don't use any tools while splitting firewood.

* When you are introduced to someone and you bow to greet them.

* Whenever you see some wood or concrete, even things like stools or
tables, and get excited while you picture just how you would go about
breaking it. Then you get funny looks as you feel it and give it a look of
hard concentration, then maybe measure off a few times.


Ran across this on another site, and felt the need to share them (to find out if it's just me that's mental, since i felt that some of 'em fits me :Angel.

 

I come very close to calling my university lecturers "sifu".

 

oh damn I do some of these things .................
without thinking !!!!

made me smile

thank you

 

these lists always worry me - im not exactly premier ma matirial and i still think i've done some of them

 

Say "Aye" instead - close enough

 

* when you use various strikes to turn lights off and on.

I often do this, much to the annoyance of my mother. I once broke the light switch in the kitchen, and my mum smacked my ass and made me buy a new one. hehe.

 

lol its all true

 

Is this supposed to be a joke? Looks more like a "to do" checklist to me.

 

Customers regularly give me strange looks as I practice parts of my forms around the store. Damn those big mirrors

 

do this all the time in school too

 

Wow. This is bad. I haven't even been doing MA for that long and I can remember doing one or two of these things here and there. Is that extra bad? Mind you, since I stopped, although i've wanted to get back into training, I haven't had any of these "symptoms." Oh, the dilemma.

 

I've done many of thos. I need to print some off and take them to my instructor.

 

yeah, Next and Topman should really get bigger changing rooms. you can barely tryout a decent roundhouse kick in the new combats you're thinking of buying in them.

 

* open and close doors with spinning kicks .. YEp, or with round house kicks. or even side kicks... had to stop after almost breaking one.


* I used to accidentally call one of my favorite professors 'sensei' with
fair regularity, and I don't think I'll ever stop saying 'hai!' instead of
'yes!'. ....... yep

* leap to your feet and shriek with indignation while watching "Kung Fu",
"Walker, Texas Ranger", and "Highlander" at home

(yep, but not necceserally because of the martial arts move, but because walker is just so lame in so many other ways, still it's good to watch as a comedy.)

 

beckwith

Yeah but the marines suck like fiecees so that's no special tribute, their some of the most incompetant and cowardly "military" forces known to man, not to mention a lil on the stupid side.

Please, so many other more superior military forces use martial arts, did you really have to down grade MA by mentioning the marines?

 

Way to stink the place up with idiocy.

Care to expand upon your apparently intimate knowledge of military forces, in particular why you are so down on the marines?

 

its from asianjokes.com
there are a few martial arts jokes on there...

 

LoL, tell us what it is sweet heart.

 

Yes, I too would be interested in hearing the opinions of a 14 year old girl on the American Military system since you've obviously had so much experience with basic training and the military in general!

Anyway, loved the joke, I tend to do a lot of that. Except the shows of respect. I take them too seriously to use them outside of class

 

stop encouraging the troll

.... oh god i sound like a mod! EEEEEEK!