hmmm, the topic is wierdos you've met in the martial arts, and I've done t3h ninj3r. Where to begin?

This guy came to training and said that he belives Bruce Lee's spirit still exists. He said NDE's were proof of the afterlife. When someone suggested that NDEs might be caused by oxygen deprivation, he said "That could be true".

I don't think I've ever met a truly creepy martial artist, but I have met some people who didn't fit the part at all.
Like the master at my old school. Ugly Korean guy who wore tank tops so he could show off his saggy bod. Ugh.
Or the master at my even older kung-fu school. Nothing outwardly unusual, but he had this really really weird vibe. And he was never around. Ever.

Japan Junkie from Bullshido

Kat and Ashly can be downright terrifying.


Only when you're out of your mind :confused2

I don't know if creepy is the right term, but I chanced upon an armed martial LARPer dreaming through their fantasies in a public place today. Seriously, I was in the returns queue at a well known chain furniture store today and this chap with some sort of curtain rail under his arm was also queuing. Being bored I looked around me as you do, and noticed that this guy was holding said curtain rail in a particularly unnatural way, a way that I am 99% sure is only really an MA related way. In bemusement I sort of followed him out of the corner of my eye (ok, I'm the creepy one, but I was curious) and that's when I noticed that he was stepping in sort of evasive circles as if walking through some imaginary fight in his head. I no lie.


EDIT: "Hi Sam" I said, "Long time no see..."
j/k

I used to throw keg parties at my old school and invite 100 people to the dojo for a "Kempo Kegger!"

Does that make me the creepy one?

Bullshido: Kenny "Sephiroth" Brooks formally of the Shinkage Ryu Marobashikai (http://www.bullshido.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&file=viewarticle&id=147)

Crazy Joe is this guys name. He would ride the bus with his gi on an then tell some story about how people keep looking at him funny. One day when doing sankaku, tiangle chokes, drills I said "Ok Joe when you go home don't practice this on your dog."

In response he says "How did you know I did that?".

"Joe are you serious?" cause he is crazy we had to ask.

"Yea my dad won't let me do it to him so I use the dog." He was stone cold serious.
I now work with the guy's dad, who is a guidance counsler. He askes my the other day about a problem with his TV and says "My crazy son must have hooked his guitar amp up to it or something."

BTW he has papers that says he is crazy.

What's a NDE?
Also, back when I did Bujinkan, one guy tried to swing a weighted chain at my head for real during a practice. I don't know if it qualifies as "creepy", but it fucking scared me, 'cause if he had hit, I would have gotten pretty hurt.

That's pretty fucking creepy, actually.

What's a NDE?
Also, back when I did Bujinkan, one guy tried to swing a weighted chain at my head for real during a practice. I don't know if it qualifies as "creepy", but it fucking scared me, 'cause if he had hit, I would have gotten pretty hurt.


Or probably died. A Weighted chain to the head will kill, there is a reason the Toda-ryu guys wear kendo helment when sparring with chain weapons.

Byong Yu, and some of his instructors were pretty creepy. Master Yu had everyone say Yong Do (Yong's way, I guess) when they bowed and greeted each other. Guess he wanted to start a cult. He also wanted to be in the movie version of the book "the Ninja", which was super popular, and very awful, even back then. He had us all do a screen test, where we had to pay and get video'd doing a couple of moves. Years later, he claimed that Sterling Silliphant had wrote a screenplay and they were making a movie about his life. Which is utter bullshit. Anyway, there was a poster of him ( a Korean) with the Chinese Monkey king make up, for some movie titled the" Monkey Man". $ 200.00 was all it cost to do the try out.
Back in the 80's, he had to leave northern California because he was accused of Statuatory rape, and also, the instructors said he was a wife beater. The instructor were pretty sleazy, and seemed to think this was a minor character flaw. He also had the instructors whack the kid's class kid's with sticks. He was very good at Tae Kwon Do, and could do some very impressive things at 40, that a lot of guys at that time couldn't do at 20 or 30.

Ninja Ralph. Never trained with him, but met him, and heard story after story...

For a couple of years, whenever martial arts guys in Ottawa were shooting the breeze, someone would invariably tell a Ninja Ralph story, and someone else would exclaim "you know that guy too?"

Claimed to be head of the "Ontario Ninja Federation"
Climbed the fence to the Russian Embassy, dressed in camo, so that his buddy could take a picture of him
Tried to convince the owner of a splatball range to let him sneak around and smack people with a palmed paintball, rather than use the gun
Actually had students at one point, both wearing whitebelts and looking ****-scared of him
Leapt out the back door of the place he was living at, threw a bagel at a friend of mine while yelling "shuriken attack!" Ralph's roommate explained to my friend: "That's Ralph, he's a neeeenja."

Okay, if someone hucked a bagel at me and yelled that, I'd do my best to catch it and huck it back at him.

'Cause that's pretty fucking funny.

Ninja Ralph. Never trained with him, but met him, and heard story after story...

For a couple of years, whenever martial arts guys in Ottawa were shooting the breeze, someone would invariably tell a Ninja Ralph story, and someone else would exclaim "you know that guy too?"

Claimed to be head of the "Ontario Ninja Federation"
Climbed the fence to the Russian Embassy, dressed in camo, so that his buddy could take a picture of him
Tried to convince the owner of a splatball range to let him sneak around and smack people with a palmed paintball, rather than use the gun
Actually had students at one point, both wearing whitebelts and looking ****-scared of him
Leapt out the back door of the place he was living at, threw a bagel at a friend of mine while yelling "shuriken attack!" Ralph's roommate explained to my friend: "That's Ralph, he's a neeeenja."

The term retard of ninjas seems so much more fitting now.

I spit coffee on the keyboard and screen. BTW

Or probably died. A Weighted chain to the head will kill, there is a reason the Toda-ryu guys wear kendo helment when sparring with chain weapons.


:tongue9: Now that is retrospectively very fucking scary. Thank god he missed.