I got the giggles tonight

[Flea]

No one is immune: we all start laughing sometimes and just can't stop.

It happened to me tonight in practice, twice. The first time, I was in the center of a multiple attacker drill. We were all horsing around as usual, and somebody cracked a stoopit joke that hit me just right. I regressed to third grade for a good couple minutes and was practically doubled over. Nobody stopped hitting me of course, which somehow made everything a hundred times funnier. It happened a second time as I was grappling with someone - we started making fart jokes, and I was off all over again. I laughed so hard it hurt to breathe. I just couldn't stop!

It would be a rational thing if it were nervous laughter, because these drills (especially the first one) can produce a lot of anxiety. But it wasn't - I was just having a great time. I haven't laughed like that in ages and it felt fantastic.

Has anyone else cracked up like that in practice? What would you attribute it to? Or am I reading too much into it?

 

[teekin]

Ummmmmm, yes Flea, I have. But, ahhhh I better not say too much. It had something to do with " My Bad Man is pointing this way" ( instructor points up) when doing he was doing a ground drill with me. Now I have heard it called many nicknames and various terms of endearment but "My Bad Man" was a new one. :rofl:I think he meant opponent or he's Roman Catholic and has some very deep seated guilt issues. Anyyyhooo I laughed my *** off, he failed to see the humor in it. For several classes.

Ohhhhhh why did you remind me of this! Now I'm going to be smirking in class.:anic:
Ahem. This is a pre-emptive appology. Sorry. :wah: All Flea's fault.
lori

 

[Flea]

Ohhhhhh why did you remind me of this! Now I'm going to be smirking in class.:anic:
Ahem. This is a pre-emptive appology. Sorry. :wah: All Flea's fault.
lori

I am here to serve. :asian:

 

[Jade Tigress]

I've had fits of uncontrollable laughter before, and more I try not to laugh, the harder I laugh! I don't recall if I've ever had one during training, but just reading the two stories above made me chuckle.

 

[Ken Morgan]

Sometimes during partner practice in jodo and in kenjitsu I'll just start laughing at how serious my partner is, right in the middle of the kata. I can't help it. Its at the point sometimes where instead of looking them in the eyes as one of us attacks, I have to stare at their mouth of neck.

 

[Stac3y]

Yes. During sparring, it's not uncommon. Usually not fall on the floor type laughing, but we do laugh a good bit when someone does something particularly uncoordinated or unexpected.

 

[Drac]

There is always a good deal of humor in our classes...The last time I started to laugh at the wrong time was at my best friends funeral service in church...

 

[sfs982000]

No one is immune: we all start laughing sometimes and just can't stop.

It happened to me tonight in practice, twice. The first time, I was in the center of a multiple attacker drill. We were all horsing around as usual, and somebody cracked a stoopit joke that hit me just right. I regressed to third grade for a good couple minutes and was practically doubled over. Nobody stopped hitting me of course, which somehow made everything a hundred times funnier. It happened a second time as I was grappling with someone - we started making fart jokes, and I was off all over again. I laughed so hard it hurt to breathe. I just couldn't stop!

It would be a rational thing if it were nervous laughter, because these drills (especially the first one) can produce a lot of anxiety. But it wasn't - I was just having a great time. I haven't laughed like that in ages and it felt fantastic.

Has anyone else cracked up like that in practice? What would you attribute it to? Or am I reading too much into it?

I tend to break out constantly in training for various reason, watching someone that is sooo totally serious for some reason just kills me. Our instructors also do a fairly decent job of breaking up the class, normally without saying word, just a look is all it takes sometimes. And it's hard to not make fart reference sooner or later in class, I could go on for hours about farting in class. I'm a trained professional folks