|
|
Hello and thank you for visiting AikiWeb, the
world's most active online Aikido community! This site is home to
over 22,000 aikido practitioners from around the world and covers a
wide range of aikido topics including techniques, philosophy, history,
humor, beginner issues, the marketplace, and more.
If you wish to join in the discussions or use the other advanced
features available, you will need to register first. Registration is
absolutely free and takes only a few minutes to complete so sign up today!
|
12-03-2008, 11:19 PM
|
#1
|
Location: Rochester, NY
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 281
Offline
|
And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lCot...eature=related
The little lady at 1 minute and 8 seconds (1:08) in.
It's plain to see she is fully commited to the "attack" as well. Such symmetry, such grace... Perhaps my teacher will let me help out with the kids class....
Sorry, way too late at night.
|
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
- Thomas Hardy
|
|
|
12-04-2008, 07:27 AM
|
#2
|
Dojo: Sukagawa Aikido Club of Montreal
Location: Montreal
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 641
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Now, I have two young kids about that age, but MAN did I laugh!
|
|
|
|
12-04-2008, 07:44 AM
|
#3
|
Dojo: Aikido of Lake Keowee
Location: South Carolina
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 187
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
OOOOUUUUCCCHHHHH!!
Lesson here kids is head goes back, balance is broken, fall down
Doc
|
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will"
Gandhi
|
|
|
12-04-2008, 05:33 PM
|
#4
|
Dojo: Aikido of Midland
Location: Midland Texas
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 1,652
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
The little one doing the back break fall was the best. Looked slight she slapped out blue jacket and all.
|
|
|
|
12-04-2008, 08:25 PM
|
#5
|
Location: Rochester, NY
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 281
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Yea, she was the inspiration for posting. Better angle & field of vision of in this one, but the image is only slightly grainier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcxbl...eature=related
I can only post this because I have, um, blocked a goalie's return in just this fashion. Also I am assuming she came out of it all the wiser.
Have a good weekend all!
|
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
- Thomas Hardy
|
|
|
12-06-2008, 10:10 PM
|
#6
|
Location: St. Louis
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 139
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Quote:
Mike Logan wrote:
Yea, she was the inspiration for posting.
|
You find a toddler getting whacked in the head, and being knocked off her feet inspirational? Or worst yet, humorous?
Quote:
I can only post this because I have, um, blocked a goalie's return in just this fashion. Also I am assuming she came out of it all the wiser.
|
Something skewed and disturbing about the rational in the above quote.
Sorry. Not funny at all.
|
|
|
|
12-08-2008, 08:45 PM
|
#7
|
Location: Rochester, NY
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 281
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Who doesn't enjoy seeing little kids get smashed in the face? It's delightful. (This is an example of sarcasm)
Quote:
I can only post this because I have, um, blocked a goalie's return in just this fashion. Also I am assuming she came out of it all the wiser.
|
In smaller words without all those confusing commas: I've been hit in the face with a soccer ball myself. I lived through it, though I still suffer from the effects below:
The aforementioned trauma has impaired my moral compass to the point that I cannot differentiate between a harmless bonk on the head with a balloon, and a gunshot wound. Doctor's have also told me that the injury will likely prevent me from: smelling the color red, learning to appreciate the "Harry Potter" series, and from ever becoming holier than thou
Thankfully you are holy enough for the both of us.
She was the award-winner because the fall was so perfect. That portion of the clip was the motivation, the cause, the inspiration, the impetus, the reson d'etre for posting the original link.
I did not find her epic struggle and irrevocable demise at the behest of some ballistic buckminster fullerene inspiration al in some profound and deeply touching way. That would indeed be disturbing; no, I found it hilarious.
One of us is taking themselves too seriously, Let me know if you think it's me.
|
|
|
|
12-08-2008, 09:54 PM
|
#8
|
Dojo: Sukagawa Aikido Club of Montreal
Location: Montreal
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 641
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Nicely worded, Mike. So nicely in fact I added your comment to my signature. Well done.
|
|
|
|
12-09-2008, 02:04 AM
|
#9
|
Dojo: Wherever I happen to be
Location: Zaragoza
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 587
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Sorry Mike, Nick; but I'm with Adam here. Not funny how the little girl got hit in the face. It won't be funny to see my toddler get hit too.
|
|
|
|
12-09-2008, 06:57 AM
|
#10
|
Location: Michigan
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 100
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Quote:
Mike Logan wrote:
ballistic buckminster fullerene inspiration
|
Oooh, nice alliteration. May I steal this for future purposes?
In other news, this is one of those where I feel guilty for laughing, yet I laugh anyway.
My second favorite is the girl in the blue soccer uniform who gets bonked, staggers, then gets back up. Shows an amazing level of comittment and perserverence.
|
|
|
|
12-09-2008, 07:27 AM
|
#11
|
Dojo: Sukagawa Aikido Club of Montreal
Location: Montreal
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 641
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Fair enough Alejandro.
By and large, I am disgusted by videos showing this kind of thing, but having taken my share soccer balls, hand-balls (note: never be the goalie in handball) and even those hard plastic orange street-hockey balls to the either the groin or face, if there is no real damage other than to the person's ego, I can see the humour in it, though like Carolyn, there is of course a certain guilt.
I see little difference between the aforementionned video segement watching my 4yr old son riding his Diego car way too fast down the hall (yes, with Mommy and Daddy repeating ad-nauseum "Slow down before you kill yourself...or your little sister!!") then hits the carpet at the end of the hall go arse-over-teakettle, and comes up laughing, Yes the little girl probably came up crying (more from shock than pain, I would suspect) and might have a bruise on her forehead.
|
|
|
|
12-09-2008, 08:13 AM
|
#12
|
Location: St. Louis
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 139
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
The odd thing is, I did found this funny:
Quote:
Mike Logan wrote:
Thankfully you are holy enough for the both of us.
|
Sorry you told a joke and was disappointed that someone didn't laugh.
|
|
|
|
12-09-2008, 06:27 PM
|
#13
|
Location: Aichi-ken, Nagoya-shi
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 644
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Quote:
Adam Bauder wrote:
Sorry you told a joke and was disappointed that someone didn't laugh.
|
Actually he was exasperated because he told a joke and was called "skewed and disturbing".
Look, this is home video that found its way on YouTube. I doubt it would have been circulated if the girl was grievously injured. Mike didn't post it because it was funny that a little girl got hit in the head with a soccer ball. He posted it because she then did a perfect judo fall. Which is perfectly fine, particularly from the far remove of watching a home video clip on YouTube. It's not like he was standing over her laughing and pointing after she got hit.
If it didn't strike you quite as amusing, that's cool -- I myself didn't find it funny enough to induce me to comment. But your comments were rather over-the-top.
|
Josh Reyer
The lyf so short, the crafte so longe to lerne,
Th'assay so harde, so sharpe the conquerynge...
- Chaucer
|
|
|
12-10-2008, 10:21 AM
|
#14
|
Location: St. Louis
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 139
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
Quote:
Joshua Reyer wrote:
Actually he was exasperated because he told a joke and was called "skewed and disturbing".
|
It was a poor choice of words on my part. I was trying to comment on the phrase that drew it out of me. No need to explain why something like this can push my buttons in a dramatic fashion. As you can see, I don't make many posts.
I did not want to imply that Mike was "skewed and disturbed". So for that, Mike ... I apologize. It's no wonder I'm not a word-smith.
Quote:
If it didn't strike you quite as amusing, that's cool -- I myself didn't find it funny enough to induce me to comment. But your comments were rather over-the-top.
|
That's fair.
|
|
|
|
12-10-2008, 04:42 PM
|
#15
|
Location: Rochester, NY
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 281
Offline
|
Re: And the YouTube Ukemi-of-the-Year Award goes to...
My original post and follow-up weren't as clear as perhaps they should have been, and the second link without the context of all the other clips and music would be approaching poor taste, certainly.
Who am I kidding, the whole thing was pretty low-brow. My humor in real life is kinda non-linear; lots of word play, and more often than not if people do laugh, it is at me, instead of the joke. But the goal is achieved. Just ask my dojo-mates.
Let's trade apologies. Thanks Adam, and sorry for that initial reply of mine. I hope it can be read now for the enjoyment of the exaggeration alone.
Though seriously, I can't get passed the first page of "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" ...
Safe Training and Holidays for everyone,
michael.
|
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
- Thomas Hardy
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 04:08 AM.
|
vBulletin Copyright © 2000-2024 Jelsoft Enterprises Limited
Copyright 1997-2024 AikiWeb and its Authors, All Rights Reserved.
For questions and comments about this website:
Send E-mail
|
|