Ru-dy! Ru-dy! Ru-dy!
Hello!
Has anyone seen that great football movie "Rudy"? Sean Astin plays a student determined to play football for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame University. As a co-worker of his reminds him, "You're five foot nothin', a hundred pounds of nothin'"--Rudy wants to quit, but his co-worker is reminding him that he has already succeeded against astronomical odds when he succeeded at practice every day. He hangs tough, and does indeed make it into the last two plays of the last game of his senior year. And he sacks the quarterback. And he's carried off the field by the very players who started a chant when it looked like he wouldn't make it into the game: "Ru-dy! "Ru-dy! Ru-dy!" Ladies and gentlemen, I feel like the Rudy of aikido. One thing's for sure--I'm blessed with amazing Senseis (is that the correct plural spelling??). I hope I don't give up on myself. |
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What inspired you to make this post, anyway? I'm not trying to be rude, but where did this come from? It doesn't seem connected to anything else at all... |
Yes, japanese has no plural. For example: Shichi-nin samurai is Seven samurai.
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You could add "-tachi" in the end. I believe "-tachi" could only be used as subjects though, not as objects in a sentence.
watashi-tachi -> us, we anata-tachi -> you (plural) sensei-tachi -> sensei's group Cooper-san-tachi -> Cooper-san's group... wait a minute... come to think of it... it does have a different meaning... ;p |
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There was the word aikido in it, after all. Suzanne - I'm jealous. I've never been carried off the mat by a bunch of football players chanting my name. I've been carried off the mat, but I was unconcious at the time, so I don't remember anything about it. Tim |
Hi Jeff--
I was just feeling momentary discouragement this week at how unsuited I am to aikido. I was looking for motivation to continue and remembered 'Rudy'. If he was capable of being a football player, then I can progress in aikido. Hi Tim-- Egads--carried off the mat! But I'll bet you landed gracefully! :cool: May Hashem hold you in the palm of His hand, you being in such a holy yet beset area. I'm delighted to hear of a dojo there. |
You don't have to be suited to aikido.
No real need to be good at it. You might want to enjoy it, however ;). |
Thanks Lyle! Good advice! :D
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I like the way Lyle thinks, don't you?
:) Lan |
This is completely immature, but can anyone remember "Hook" the movie with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman?
How cool would it be if you got called up to randori and everyone started chanting "RU-FI-O!" :p (he was so much cooler than peter pan). |
*adding to the Japanese stuff*
Beside the -tachi form, Japanese also form plural meanings by sometimes using the same word twice. "ware", while being rather unusual, means "I", and "wareware" means "we". "hito" means "person", while "hitobito" (where the second "h" has been changed to a "b", since that is the way of the Japanese sounds ;)), means "people". To answer the actual question: No, you don't say "senseis" ;) |
The only failures I've ever seen in any martial art (an in many other aspects of life) are those that quit. We had a saying in my karate school: "a black belt is nothing more than a white belt that never quit".
Of course there's the Cal-Tech saying: "the beauty of banging your head on a brick wall is that it feels really good when you stop". But those guys are crazy. |
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