20 Problems You'll Only Understand If You Were A Martial Arts Kid
4. Indecipherable Foreign Instructors
Sometimes you'd attend big regional events in the big leisure centre a few miles down the road. These special training days were often sold on the fact that a renowned sensei was coming from overseas to impart some of his wisdom. This would always be a let down. The instructors would never be from the actual country of your martial art's origin, usually Norwegian or Dutch instead for some reason. Their accents were thicker than concrete, and they'd just end up showing you a slightly modified hip throw anyway. Exotic.
3. Losing The Games At The End Of The Session
The best part of each week's session were the games at the end - without question. Until you looked around and realised your team was full of losers yet again. Three tiny white belts, an asthmatic green belt, and your useless sandbagging mate from earlier - hardly a formidable outfit. Of course you'd lose, every time. What were you even expecting?
Sometimes you'd attend big regional events in the big leisure centre a few miles down the road. These special training days were often sold on the fact that a renowned sensei was coming from overseas to impart some of his wisdom. This would always be a let down. The instructors would never be from the actual country of your martial art's origin, usually Norwegian or Dutch instead for some reason. Their accents were thicker than concrete, and they'd just end up showing you a slightly modified hip throw anyway. Exotic.
