1. You say to the shop assistant, "Nice trousers, but I don't think I can kick in them."
2. You go to the shoe shop to try on shoes and instead of walking round the shop, you practice stances and kicks.
3. You hit your head on a low doorway or ceiling and kick it in anger and _damage_ it.
4. You always put the left side of the bathrobe over the right and knot the belt like your obi
5. You're practicing your arm techniques while driving down the motorway, notice someone in another car staring at you, and suddenly turn your block into vigorously fanning away an imaginary fly.
6. You use various strikes and kicks to turn lights off and on.
7. You open and close doors with spinning kicks.
8. You still haven't gotten used to recognising everybody walking around in their normal clothes, in town
9. You find yourself practicing bo staff techniques in miniature with your pencil during dull meetings and school classes.
10. You try to backfist the correct floor button on the inside of the elevator, based on your memory of the button's location, before you get in far enough to see it.
11. You notice you never stand with your arms crossed or your hands in your pockets. But feet turned out and hands by your side.
12. You tend to keep at least one martial arts weapon close at hand by your bed when you sleep.
13. You have the urge to bow every time you enter or leave a room or school hall.
14. You accidentally call your teacher 'sensei'.
15. You find yourself practicing stances while standing in a queue
16. You don't use any tools while cutting up wood.
17. You are introduced to someone and you bow to greet them.
18. You see some wood or concrete, even things like stools or tables, and get excited while you picture just how you would go about breaking it. Then you get funny looks as you feel it and give it a look of hard concentration.
19. You say 'Oss' by mistake when you meant to say 'yes' in an interview
20. You no longer care about pain
21. You react to someone coming at you (most likely a friend) and mistakenly do a takedown, and realise afterward that you made a mistake
22. You count in Japanese instead of English at work or to your children
23. You can't hold you girlfriends hand without putting her in a wrist lock.
24. You do horse riding stance over the toilet bowl.
25. When you try to walk into a room without anyone hearing you
26. You don't have a girlfriend/boyfriend left to practice your moves on
27. You leave the front door unlocked hopeing someone or something will brake in
28. When a snack gets stuck in the vending machine, you place your hand on the machine, breath deeply, and use your ki to try and get the food out.
29. When everytime you wash the car you turn into Daniel son from the Karate Kid and start to "wax on" and "wax off".
    
    
    
    

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White Belt Instructors

I thought it'd be pretty crazy to search through some photos of Sensei Sarah and Sensei George when they first started karate, because I know that you're so interested in seeing what they used to look like as white belts.

Sensei Sarah Aged 9 in Dec 1990 .......Sensei George Aged ? April 1992