a slice of humble pie?

[jubaji]

It's been a while since I was on this site,
so I'm somewhat rusty.
but here goes................
what is the most humbling/painfull experience that you have experienced whilst in training or real life.

c'mon dont be shy, we've all had them!

Mid 90's I am in the middle of the Toyohashi municipal gym. The only gaijin in the local Kendo club. Still a beginner, still trying to keep a low profile, learn without getting in everyone else's way (everyone else was ten-million dan or something). This day, the head dude finally decides I've improved enough (and stuck it out long enough) to merit some individualized attention. The head dude rarely works one-on-one with anyone, let alone the clumsy gaijin. So I'm trying my darndest to make a good show of it, demonstrate my fightin' spirit and all that. Most of the other folks were still working out, but watching out the corner of their men . At one point the old dude is telling me to put more 'oomph' into it, so I decide to take a big, powerful, dynamic step on the first move of the next drill. Naturally, my foot gets tangled up in the bottom of my hakama, so that when I step down I throw myself right on my face. The Do and Men make a nice loud sound hitting the floor, I slide about three feet along the floor, and my Shinae slides all the way over to the old dude's feet. Naturally, the whole gym goes silent as everyone stops to observe the spectacle. Since my plan to slip through the cracks in the floor and escape never to be seen again doesn't seem feasible, I have to pick up and start again with a rather vigilant audience.



Not one of sport's greatest moments.

[gracilva]

Try getting choked unconscious, by the strap of your bike helmet
while play grappling drunk, on concrete.

[CHOKE UK]

Some great pieces of humble pie being served up!

I always remember many years ago at primary school,
there was this bully-boy walking around like bullies do,
tripping people up,stealing things, hitting people etc, you know the kind of thing!
Anyway he started on me, and you can imagine how I felt as I swung a haymaker at him and...............................
(wait for it)...............................it caught him in the kisser!
And to my amazent, to the ground he went !!!!!

With the whole playground looking on,
and with blood and a gash dripping from my hand(as The punch actually caught him in his mouth thus cutting my knuckles)............
I begin to turn round and as proud as a peacock,
with my proud war wound of a gashed hand,
expecting to be greeted by my mates with a chorus of
"for he's a jolly good fellow"............................
But that never came !
All I remember was a big white flash!
And as my vision came back,
I could just make out the figure of bully-boy's older sister screaming abuse at me !
Yes she'd given me a right-hook!
and she was a girl so i didnt know wheather to hit her back or not?

So I just stood there like a "blithering-buffoon!".......
with the whole playground watching......................
"humble-pie" that still seems to get stuck in my throat all these years later!

[ChunGi]

When i started doing the open martuial arts tournys in my area i was undefeated going into teh provincials (states for some of you) and was real cocky, pretty much though i was untouchable. Going agaisnt a green belt in MT when i was a Red in TKD. First minute is nothing blokcing his stuff and kicking mid saving my energy right, after I started tiring this guy opens up a new can of whopp ass on me and smokes my on the rigth side midsection with a roundhouse, breaking about 3 of my ribs and bending some others real good. I still won gold in the provincials (woohoo) but my right side ribs stick out about an extra inch off my chest,and this was in 2000. kinda taught me respect and honor in about a second all in the same day. I took my gold medal and ran away hahaha.