Well, I knew it was bound to happen. Per suggestion of several members here after my martial arts thread, I decided to hunt down a local studio that taught Hapkido in an effort to try to refresh my skills after about 10-12 years without a mentor. Well, I found this nice kindly old oriental gentleman who refered me over to a small storefront hapkido school in a nearby city. Took me forever to find it because he's not listed in the phone book for some reason. Well, anyways, I finally found him yesterday and finally made the visit today during my afternoon client visits. I walked in, asked the young lady at the front for the owner of the studio. She called to someone in the back and a middle aged man (about in his 40's I'd say) came up to greet me. I introduced myself and told him I was looking for an instructor. He smiled, then showed me into his studio where he was doing an afternoon lesson. He introduced me to his class then had me change into my practice outfit. So I got into my outfit (which I brought just in case the instructor might want me to spar to see where I was skill wise), then came into the middle of a large sparing mat. He took two of his best students and paired them up against me.
They were both very good and I did very well against them winning both sparing matches. Then the instructor himself wanted to spar against me to further test my skills. Uh, that match didn't go so well. I may be big, strong, muscular, fast, and agile, but oh man. He kicked my *** with such ease I thought I was a brand new student again!! Saying he used me to wipe the mat with would be an understatement! Afterwords he talked to me for a while and we're going to be doing lessons every other day now. He said I did really good. I got the bruises to prove otherwise in my opinion. Wow. I think I still got a lot of learning to do. I can't believe I got my *** kicked like that. :Q
They were both very good and I did very well against them winning both sparing matches. Then the instructor himself wanted to spar against me to further test my skills. Uh, that match didn't go so well. I may be big, strong, muscular, fast, and agile, but oh man. He kicked my *** with such ease I thought I was a brand new student again!! Saying he used me to wipe the mat with would be an understatement! Afterwords he talked to me for a while and we're going to be doing lessons every other day now. He said I did really good. I got the bruises to prove otherwise in my opinion. Wow. I think I still got a lot of learning to do. I can't believe I got my *** kicked like that. :Q
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