lulflo
Blue Belt
I want to start a thread for stories that have happened to you that are pretty special. It could be related to martial arts or teachers or people, even influences. An example from my life.
I had been working at Pizza Hut for a while and am normally pretty rambunctious. I liked playing hackey sack on my break and messing around with kicks from t.v., etc. So my friend thought he would invite me to train with his martial arts teacher in the park after work. He would train at midnight in a park, that was cool and it fit in my schedule too. After a little convincing, he got me to go with him. I went and found it to be very awesome and intense and I liked it, but I was a smoker at the time and didn't want to commit to something that intense just yet. So after a dozen or so classes, I dropped out, quit my job and went to find myself elsewhere. I got other jobs, found a career and met my wife, quit smoking and we had some kids and then when we decided we would be moving to Casa Grande, I told her that I wanted MA back in my life. We were moving soon and I really wanted to find my same teacher, but never did get his # or address - we trained in a park! So I was looking for my friend who worked with me at Pizza Hut and couldn't find him. After several months of searching, I was going to give up and join the school that was my second choice at the time. I was driving east and turning south about one mile from the school to sign up and I could swear that my friend from Pizza Hut was in front of me. I decided to follow, why not?, he turned into the street just before the school, I followed, he went about 1/4 mile down the street and pulled into the driveway, I drove past a little and stopped. He got out of the car and sure enough it was him!!!
I got my teacher's phone #, called him and set up a time to come over and started training two weeks later. I don't believe in coincidences, and what I didn't know is that my teacher was not teaching for a while and was just about to set up some classes again and when I called him, it worked out perfectly.
If you have any stories, and I'm sure we all do, please share.
Farang - Larry
I had been working at Pizza Hut for a while and am normally pretty rambunctious. I liked playing hackey sack on my break and messing around with kicks from t.v., etc. So my friend thought he would invite me to train with his martial arts teacher in the park after work. He would train at midnight in a park, that was cool and it fit in my schedule too. After a little convincing, he got me to go with him. I went and found it to be very awesome and intense and I liked it, but I was a smoker at the time and didn't want to commit to something that intense just yet. So after a dozen or so classes, I dropped out, quit my job and went to find myself elsewhere. I got other jobs, found a career and met my wife, quit smoking and we had some kids and then when we decided we would be moving to Casa Grande, I told her that I wanted MA back in my life. We were moving soon and I really wanted to find my same teacher, but never did get his # or address - we trained in a park! So I was looking for my friend who worked with me at Pizza Hut and couldn't find him. After several months of searching, I was going to give up and join the school that was my second choice at the time. I was driving east and turning south about one mile from the school to sign up and I could swear that my friend from Pizza Hut was in front of me. I decided to follow, why not?, he turned into the street just before the school, I followed, he went about 1/4 mile down the street and pulled into the driveway, I drove past a little and stopped. He got out of the car and sure enough it was him!!!
I got my teacher's phone #, called him and set up a time to come over and started training two weeks later. I don't believe in coincidences, and what I didn't know is that my teacher was not teaching for a while and was just about to set up some classes again and when I called him, it worked out perfectly.
If you have any stories, and I'm sure we all do, please share.
Farang - Larry
