My unfortunate story about getting owned.

I do neck bridges, too. Do you have a specific routine you do, or is it just for as long as you can hold it?
 
Thanks, mate. I feel better about myself already.:D
 
farmboy said:
I do neck bridges, too. Do you have a specific routine you do, or is it just for as long as you can hold it?
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Normally the guys do neck bridges to the timer we have for stetching and exercises. To be honest, I haven't been doing them lately and I haven't been training my cardio a lot, either...

I don't think it would have made a difference, though. My posture was terrible, I was basically just throwing my hands over my face because I froze up. You can do plenty of strengthening exercises but if you just let yourself get hit you're usually going to get hurt.
 
We can't let you sulk 'cause this ain't no damn crisis hotline. They got 800 numbers for that. But if I were Larry and you made a point sometime soon to give that back to me then I'd respect you a whole lot. It's all about moxy man, reasons why you train and fight, reasons to take that kind of shit.

This dude squared up with me tonight over a fucking $2 bill that I wouldn't take. Said he "just couldn't let it go." I gave him the impression he was going to have to, I had made a decision and I wasn't going to let him quizzing and then attempting to humiliate me back me down, had he made nice, might have ended differently. But he was all swollen up like he was gonna throw a punch and staring me in my face. I stared right back, and he eventually backed off, probably to go tell all his friends what a pussy I am.

Moral of the story? What we do is all about heart, all about mastering your emotions through mastering your body, having answers to problems most people are afraid to even begin to confront. You wanna turn this situation around? Next class make a point to tell Larry you CANNOT WAIT for another kick in the teeth. There's nothing more respectable than a guy who realizes he could use a good ass kickin'.
 
King Kabuki said:
Next class make a point to tell Larry you CANNOT WAIT for another kick in the teeth. There's nothing more respectable than a guy who realizes he could use a good ass kickin'.
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You're a stronger man than I, Kabuki.
 
Yeah man, getting owned sucks. About a year ago I was just beginning to train the ground game. My school didn't have an actual class but my teacher and some of the other trainers would have after class sessions where they would spar and train ground, etc. So my teacher invited me to attend the the closed classes for free. Sweet!

So anyway, on my 3rd time of going to one of these classes I had just got done grappling with 4 guys in a row. Tired as fuck, feel like puking. Then my teacher asks if I want to spar the guy who teaches the TKD class (This place tought various arts). I'm not about to say no and pussy out so I agree. I figured we'd be doing light contact so I really didn't put much behind my hits and movement. Well, I should have paid more attention. I come in with a straight right, light contact mind you, and TKD dude BLASTS in to me. BLAM!!!! Fucker hit me with a spinning back kick in the ribs just as my hand was extended for the punch. Ribs were completely exposed and he kicked them like a motherfucker.

Next thing I know things flash black and I can't breath. the wind is knocked out of me but I decide to keep comin in, figuring I'll catch my breath as I'm throwin some punches. Then I realize my breathe isn't coming back. I've had the wind knocked out of me plenty of times but never like this. It felt as if all the oxygen in the air had dissipated. So almost involuntarily I back up to the corner...turn around...and fall to my knees. I'm trying my damdest to breath but can't. I collapse to the canvas and remember looking up hoping to get just one sweet breath of air as my trainers rushed over to me.

Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!!!!

I'm still laying there...not doing shit...wondering if I'll black out soon.


BREATHE!!!

But I can't. My body won't let me.

YOU HAVE TO BREATHE!!

I'm trying...it's not happening. Things are getting hazy...Am I going to die?

WHOOOOOOSH!!!!

Suddently my body gupls in a huge mouthful of air and I'm rolling to my side sputtering and trying to suck in air as fast as I can,

Ugh! Ugghhh!!! Ughhhhhh!!!!

I'm trying to talk but all I can do is moan and gurgle.

Ughhhhh....

Then WHAM!

As fast as my breath left me it returns. I'm able to breathe and talk again. And pull myself to my knees. TKD dude and my trainers are all over me. ARE YOU OK?!!?!? CAN YOU BREATHE?!?!

Yeah, yeah. I'm fine I tell them. The I start to laugh hysterically. At that momemt the whole situation seemed the most absurd thing that I couldn't help but laugh.

You sure you ok? Yeah, I'm fine. Think I'll take a break now though.



So yeah, that sucked. What was worse was that my rib was cracked and I had I bruised sternum. I couldn't sit up, laugh, sneeze, or sleep on my side without feeling like my ribs were about to crack in half for a month.

Good times, eh? hahha
 
Whenever you do any new offensive / defensive move you WILL get owned, unless your a natural at everything you do (and no I doubt more then 1 or 2 people on this board are).

I remember going from Wrestling to Greco Roman Wrestling back in High School. I got owned bad, and slammed harder then ANYONE in that gym.
 
EclipseAgent said:
Whenever you do any new offensive / defensive move you WILL get owned, unless your a natural at everything you do (and no I doubt more then 1 or 2 people on this board are).
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I know, I know. It was my first time defending against high kicks. I'm going to train in a little under two hours, so I hope i'll have improved since then.
 
King Kabuki said:
This dude squared up with me tonight over a fucking $2 bill that I wouldn't take. Said he "just couldn't let it go."
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Can you explain that about the $2 bill. Wgat was the arguement over?
 
Can you explain that about the $2 bill. Wgat was the arguement over?
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It really was nothing. This dude came in very close to closing time and the way he acted in the store made me suspect of him. He was holding 2 shaker cups the whole time and was looking around for way more time than it takes to decide to buy two shaker cups. Then when he gets up to the register he has a stack of cash, out of all that cash he pulls out a $2 bill, puts it back, pulls it out again, then puts it back again, then finally decides to give it to me. I told him we don't take them, and normally we don't, we don't typically take those or those gold coins. We're not a bank, and don't usually cash that stuff in.

But rather than ask me to nicely, or say he's payed with them before and there's never been a problem, he started quizzing me about why I cannot accept them. When people do that to me I automatically take the tone of "you're not getting what you want from me with this approach." I won't be intimidated into compliance. So he comes in last night, makes a point to be nice to my co-worker and not to me, and then after he buys another shaker cup (that's all he seems to buy), he comes up to me and says "hey man I just can't let it go, she took my $2 bill". I said that was nice, okay. He started wanting to quiz me again as to why I didn;t take it the first time and then started trying to tell me what I said the night it happened. So I asked him why he couldn't let it go. He said something about me having a personal problem with him. I told him I have never taken those forms of currency from anyone, it's not just him, I don't know him, therefore it cannot be personal. He kept staring at me like he was going to take a swing. I just stared right back. Then he started talking to my co-worker about how I'm an idiot who gives ignorant answers. And he apologized to my co-worker, I said I thought it funny he apologized to her for calling me an idiot.

It's alright though, someday that guy is going to come in the store and need something from me, and I'm just going to tell him I'm too much of an idiot to help him out.
 
Hey Cthon, don't be so hard on yourself. Getting knocked-out-down-silly is part of what happens when you're learning, and even when you're a "pro". The important thing is to learn from each experience, particularly the painful ones.

Shit, try getting hit in hockey. I can tell you right now that being on the losing end of a good hockey check/hit hurts way the fuck more than being knocked down/out by a good shot to the kisser.
 
i have 3 vivid memories about being owned in the gym. i have 5+ vivid memories about owning people without breaking a sweat outside of the gym

edit: much more than 3
 
Kabuki -- You sure you don't work at Best Buy insted of GNC :wink:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685

Is a funny story about some guy being escorted off to see the U.S. Secret Service after trying to use a $2 bill.

Chthon -- Is all just part of training, but I will think about this story the next time I recover from a good ownage from training
 
Chthon don't feel too bad. I have all to many days where I feel like a 220lbs heavy bag. I am learning to parry the high kicks better myself. I am slowly getting better, but only because I keep going back for more. Like King says keep your head up and go back for some more ass whooping.
 
i tried to shoot in on a boxer 60 pounds heavier than me,
he timed an uppercut perfectly, and hit me flush in the jaw,
I was launched in the air, I FLEW.I saw stars for real for like 5 min.
oh well.
 
I got that shaky feeling you described the first time I did boxing with my old Kyokushinkai class. I hadnt gone to training for maybe a month because of exams. Anyway, here I am first time boxing(punching to head), the gloves felt awkward and there were only two guys there with me, coach and another guy.

Anyway I got fucked up, at the end I was really screwed, I was half knocked out and say colors all the way home and the feeling of having gotten humbled like that really shock me too.

In retrospect I must say however that it was a good experience, first of all it really showed me humblenes and second it showed me what its like to take hard hits and now Im more secure.

And another thing, DO NOT EVER think about the lowkick shinbreak video during training, itll just screw you up.
 
Getting kicked in the face is a bit humiliating but just use the experience as a wake up call and leave the pride and ego out of the gym. When you get hit don
 
Ultrashogun said:
And another thing, DO NOT EVER think about the lowkick shinbreak video during training, itll just screw you up.
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Dude, don't say that out loud. Now i'm almost guaranteed to think about it during training!
 
I remember this one time when I was sparring, I was stalking this guy and throwing punches and low kicks at him. When I saw him turn his back on me, I went head on and all of a sudden, he threw a spinning back kick straight to my solar plexus and I was just laying on the floor unable to breathe. Next class though, I came back owning all of my sparring partners.
 
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