Saying by instructors

[granfire]

This one is from a nine-year-old student of mine: "It's great that you know it; it's better if you DO it."

Awesome!

 

[jks9199]

From my teacher:

"Unfortunately, we have another side!" (usually after many reps of a technique done with one side forward or one leg, etc.)

From my teacher, and his teacher, and many others:

"One more!" (I'm not sure that these guys can count... their "one more" seems to be about 20...)

 

[ETinCYQX]

*Takes a lapel grip on my Gi*

"Do the entry like this, nice and slow and controlled."

BANG!

Looking down at me,

"Tuck your f**king head."

So much for the "Gentle Way"

 

[terryl965]

I heard this one today while at another school

Have you been kicked in the head too much or are you just plain dumb.......

 

[Archtkd]

I use this one which I lifted lifted from the movie Tombstone:
"Are gonna do something or you just gonna stand there and bleed?"

 

[IrfanWanata]

"You can't do it, that's why we practice."

 

[Ironcrane]

The infamous line "One more Time." Was use a lot by my Kung Fu Teacher.

 

[leadleg]

" Don't worry if you stick around you will get it, we will do it a thousand times, if you don't stick around I don't care if you GET IT"

 

[terryl965]

whether or not you learn is not my fault but rather your inability to learn what I am teaching......

 

[IcemanSK]

"Chuck Norris was not made in a day."

 

[StudentCarl]

"Ten thousand times and you will have it down."

 

[granfire]

"Chuck Norris was not made in a day."

I don't think it took that long.....


But that is beside the point.

 

[Earl Weiss]

When a student askshow I can make something look easy I tell them;
"It's only difficult for the first 10 or 15 years."

 

[Earl Weiss]

When students slack off on the practice:
"You know when you don't need to practice anymore? When you can punch or kick so fast that I can't see it, you won't need to practice anymore."

 

[tshadowchaser]

From one of my instructors


You can stop practiceing when your dead

Do'nt kill a sick cow it may give birth to a stong calf ( this when I wanted to kick certian people out)

 

[Earl Weiss]

Pain is a wonderful instructor;, but no one wants to go to his class: - General Choi

You must teach your students correctly from the start. If they make a mistake for one day, it will take a day for them to correct the error. If they make a mistake for a year it will take them a year to correct the error, if they make a mistake for 5 years.... Hopeless! - General Choi

 

[Earl Weiss]

Student: "Grandmaster Winegar Sir, I have difficulty doing the technique the way you demonstrate."
Grandmaster Winegar: "I don’t".

 

[StudentCarl]

Overheard from instructor in a class of little kids when one says "This is hard":

"It's only hard until you're really good at it. Then it's easy."

 

[terryl965]

By a student last night while Olympic sparring, why can't I take my opponet down like in Muay Thai, well that makes no sense. He is a 1 gup in Olympic TKD and sadi nobody ever told him it was wrong.

 

[d1jinx]

You suck. why are you here? maybe you should consider another activity to do cause You and This aint working....

well not said, but thought on more than one occassion.