Aikido Puns

Hi folks,

So, what are some of the worst (or best, depending on how you qualify them) aikido puns that you've heard?

-- Jun

Kind of a pun, but one of my sensei's told a story of an aikido get together after a seminar he went to and had a shirt that had some Japanese characters on it that one translation was something like "always growing" as in always changing, envoling, whatever. And a Japense sensei grabbed his shirt pointed to the characters and said "It should have a down arrow! Always growing!" Its a funnier story in person.

As my dojo's resident pun-meister, the following are the genuine article.

"Aiki-dokie!"

Sensei: "Does anyone know what this is called?" *Demonstrates Yonkyo*
Student: "Donkyo?"
Sensei: "Anyone know what the difference between Yonkyo and Donkyo is?"
Me: "With Donkyo you make an ass of yourself."

Our dojo's favorite pun is : "Black Hakama down"

"It's not called Ea-Sy-Do. It's called Ai-Ki-Do."
"That's a half-kan, or five-kan; do a full tenkan!"
"Oh, move WITH your center!"
"What, it's not perfect yet? You've been at this for 2 weeks! Give it up and go home."

And I love that one, Mark! Hah!

before we start to train at my local dojo we practice ki exercises we all stand in a circle aorund sensei and practice focusing our ki in one place, we call it a ki ring (okay really bad pun i know, and the worst part is that the story isn't even true, im so ashamed of myself

san-kyo = thank you

Steve Mullen wrote: before we start to train at my local dojo we practice ki exercises we all stand in a circle aorund sensei and practice focusing our ki in one place, we call it a ki ring (okay really bad pun i know, and the worst part is that the story isn't even true, im so ashamed of myself

Mmmh. Interesting. If that's a Ki-Ring, I wonder what a Ki-Holder would look like...


-U-

Kokyu ho is the ki to aikido

Maybe not the best, but I like it

Dirk

"Aikido"

"Aikido is love"

"The cross of aikido."/"JUJI NAGE"

Not exactly a "pun", but here it goes:

We were doing kumitachi at a seminar. It is not very common in our organisation to work a lot with kiai, especially not with different types of kiai (which I belive origin from kototama, right?!), but we were encouraged to work with it then. Anyway, this friend of mine had heard that TO is often used when cutting with the bokken so he thought he´d try it out. So, there he was, yelling "TO", which everybody understood as "TOR", which is "GOAL!!!!" in German. Ho got quite a few puzzled looks

When someone's obi comes untied during training, tell them they cannot do good aikido with bad musubi.

At a seminar I attended, the instructor was very empahtic on using good kokyu ho hand position. After the seminar, we all went out to eat where Sensei had a beer and demonstrated the real reason for good kokyu ho: for drinking beer! He'd toss back his beer holding the bottle just so... "Good kokyu ho!"

Sankyu very much!

When someone has a problem with iriminage, we say they have, "Ki-less entry".

Keep 'em coming!

yonkyo = yank-u

kaitenage = kitty-nage

kitigaishi = kitty-gaishi

after being on the giving end of sankyo = ''guess i sank you''

after accidentally going for an irimi with both hands - "Irimi, not chokyu waza!"

Okay, okay, so I made all those up (except for the last one)

...there are others but I'm going to stop before someone decides I need about 100 kotagaeshi followed by 50 shihonages....

After "regular" class, we frequently retire to a pub where we intensely study "Beer-iminage" (from different attacks).

All your basics are belong to us....

Its funnier if you're in yoshinkan

Oh and in regards to beer iriminage, we have a similar technique called hirike no yose san (elbow power number 3) Make sure to keep your elbow cap pointing forward

Kevin Temple wrote: All your basics are belong to us....

LMAO!

Having read that I almost find it tempting to embroid "I pwn you" in kanji on my gi.

Michael Wroblewski wrote: After "regular" class, we frequently retire to a pub where we intensely study "Beer-iminage" (from different attacks).

Ahh, beer-waza is good for the spirit and for strengthening the connections with one's partners. Cheap hotwings and fries help the practice, as well.

In our dojo, we frequently practice gappo undo - the exercise of closing the gaps in the mats...

Ear-imi nage..... as in try not to leave your ukes ears on the mats!

'All your basics are belong to us....'

Classic!


'Having read that I almost find it tempting to embroid "I pwn you" in kanji on my gi.'

Mmmm, your giving me ideas here...

There's a funny story my sensei tells of a time when he was demonstrating and told his uke, "Kosadori! Kosadori!" --- at which point one of his students abruptly got up from the mats and ran to close the dojo door, much to everyone's amusement.