agemechanic03
Purple Belt
Today after class, I went to the BX for some shopping, that is Base Exchange/ expensive Walmart for those who do not know military talk. Well, as you all know, I am here in Korea and training with a Korean instructor and when we have our testings, we have this older man that presides over the test. He is a 7th Dan that has basically retired and works in our BX here. I went in to chat with him and to let him know that I recieved a CD today that had all the pics from our testing and to let him know that I would have some printed off for him out of respect for testing us. Before I get to the good part, I'll let you know that I stop by atleast once a week and say "HI" to him and to see how he's been. Well, today I walk in and when I finished telling him about the CD of pictures, he told me to hold on a minute. So this, has to be 60+ yr's old, not really sure what's goin on, goes running out of the store and to his car. He comes running back in a long bag and opens it up starts to pull out these two sticks. He finally pulls it completely out and it's a set of handmade nunchuks made of some type of wood wrapped in tame with Korean engravings at both ends and some braded rope that is made to fit one fist in between (which i hear that they should fit your hands like that, not really sure, never messed with em). He then says, "These are for you. I've had these for 35yrs and have never used them and I want you to have them." I know it's silly, but I'm on CLOUD 9 right now. Something that was passed down to him, he passed down to me and even told me that I can use them to practice with, which I will not do. As much as I've always that it would be an honor to meet a GM, I think this is much more of an honor when someone you don't really know that well, gives you a gift as such and mean it with all there heart.
A lil long, but I had to share with you guys b/c I am very excited about it. Well, I hope you all had an awesome weekend, as for me, my Monday is almost over.
Tang Soo!
Chris
A lil long, but I had to share with you guys b/c I am very excited about it. Well, I hope you all had an awesome weekend, as for me, my Monday is almost over.
Tang Soo!
Chris