Quote Originally Posted by Munky
Quote Originally Posted by 1-hit Wonder
I remember first day i went in, was trashing fellow begginers who were bigger than me so i was naturally a bit proud. Instructer says ok go in with this guy, im like wtf he's about 15 years old. So we start stand up work, guy completely kicked my a** even though he was much smaller and weaker than me. Did that move where you grab them and roll back and kick them over their head (cant remember its name).
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Tomoe nage! Come on mate know your terminology. Only kidding. You an 8th Kyu (bottom orange) or 7th Kyu (top orange)?

Re getting your a*** kicked by the younger chaps. I remember when i fisrts started years ago and being a young yellow belt was asked to do randori with a female blue belt. I thought 'he he he she's gonna get ragged something rotten here'. She was small and looked weak.

15 secs into randori she throws me flat on my back 'hard' for ippon sienoge. I think i was taking it a bit easy on her though
Im 8th Kyu, not much but then hey it takes time to climb up the ranks, which wont be for a while see as im out the country. Your right about my terminology, im absolutely crap at it, taken me two months to finally memorise and pronouce Okuri ashi harai properly. Really have to brush up on my terminology when i get back to the UK, gradings above my own wont be so lenient when i look a little clueless as to the instructions (then look to my dad who gestures what to do hehe, ive actually got it down to a pretty fine art i reckon ).