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That's just weird... *shakes head*... un-natural even...

By that phrase it must be time for another reiteration of JJ Class - Saturday Edition!... yay....*cheer damn you *

Well, Saturday's class was full of surprises... First, Sensei's
Sensei's (the one that unforunately died last year) Daughter was in
class. She is now the official Master of our style and from which
all knowledge derives from her. Which is great! But, I expected
her to be taller... it was like that Star Wars quote: "Aren't you a
little short to be a Storm-trooper?"

For the past few weeks we have been working with the Yawara stick, or
as we call it in public, our key-chain. A few sessions of this
and your hands will no doubt become bruised, swollen and sore (after
class of course). So in practising with this device, tool, instrument
of pain and destruction, what-have-you, there are some people that
certain situations with this device will not work on...

Apparently I'm one of those people. But, I'm getting ahead of
myself... Let me recap some of our students that have interesting
'abilities'

BigBen: This is the guy
that I went to NS with... He's about 6' and coined our phrase: "It'll
grow back". He also has wrists like Gumby. No, no, I'm
being serious here... You can physically have him against a wall, his
elbow will be at his waist and his hand will be physically turned
around touching the wall flat... It's a picture type moment to see, but
cool nonetheless.

Ok, so there's only one that I can think of... but it's a start. Now onto my story...

We were practising full nelson's in class. We did it with our hands,
peeling off the interlocked fingers, etc... Then we did it with the
Yawara stick... Tried it on BigBen first, it worked... you drive the
stick into the flesh on top of the hand and the fingers will
release. So it was my turn. I had BB in a Full Nelson and he was
hitting the tops of my hands and nothing was releasing. I was feeling
no pain, I mean, yes I was feeling the stick hitting my hand but it
wasn't working on me.

So Sensei comes up to me and I applied the FN to him. He was driving
the stick into my hands and me (with the warped and twisted sense of
humour that I have) was laughing. Strange I know, and I don't
know why I was laughing but I just found that the technique wasn't
working on me funny, no not funny, hilarious.

Here's the conversation:
Before appling the FN to Sensei he tried it with just my hands interlocked.

Sensei: "Ok, and you just hit here *strikes*"
Vx: "Nothing"
Sensei: "Hmm... *looks at my hands, pokes harder and moves the stick across my hands*"
Vx: "Still nothing..."
BB: "You've got to be crying on the inside."
Vx: "Nope"
Sensei: "Ok apply the technique"
*I do*
Sensei is prodding around and really getting in there... I'm laughing....

BB: "Let me give it a try..."
Sensei: "Sure, but I was hitting pretty hard."
*You could see the marks on my hands, but nothing was phasing me*
Sensei: "That's weird.. you have no veins on top of your hands... must be from all that typing you do"
Vx: "Well, I have been doing it for twenty years..."
Sherri #2: "Twenty years?"
Vx: "Ya I started when I was young"
BB: "Sure, typing... right! *chuckles*
Vx: "Funny guy (can't call him a bastard in front of Sensei, that would be disrespectful)"
Sensei to Class:
Sensei: "Ok, for those of you doing this technique it should work, unless you are Vx... he's just weird..."

Now in the locker room, we were talking about our various injuries..
.the conversation got around to the whole sadistic nature of doing
JJ....
Daniel-san: "You know being as twisted as we are, I could see us in a
bar, get into a fight, the guy wails on your with one punch and you
turn to him and say: 'Wow! That was a great punch! Do that again!'"
Vx: "Our even better, 'My friend has a video camera in his car, would
you mind him getting it so I can put that on the website?'"
BB: "Well, Sensei always says you need a distraction, that would
work. Personally I'd say, 'Let's have the bouncers rate that hit
on a scale of 1 to 10.'"

We all walk out laughing...

A good group of people that are in the class that's for sure.

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Quote of the Day x3

I would have to say that the last conversation was my
favourite... that and the Sensei comment, but this would be the best of
the night...

Finally, BB said as a comment in the locker room....
BB: Now, my wrist turning like that is weird enough as it is... but, that hand thing is just as bad...
Vx: Nah, I still think that your wrist thing tops my hand thing...
Daniel-san: BB wrist are first weird and yours is a close second

Vx Out