I'm really happy to hear that a Sensei somewhere threw out a student that was wearing a third degree black belt. A black belt is not just something that you wear, and it's not just something that you earn; it's something that you become. For you in the Martial Arts, maybe you've heard that "the dragon does not need to kill the sparrow!
You sir are very smart and you know that was the best thing that ever happened to me. When he kicked me out I realized how much of an idiot I was and that I missed the WHOLE point of my entire 16 martial arts training.
Now 6 years later I still train, but not in any classes and I no longer compete, instead I teach what I MISSED. Tolerance, and Patience.
On a side note after 3 years of having no contact with my sensei I ran into him at a RedSox game and we started talking........................well not really talking, it was more like me apologizing for giving him and martial arts as a whole a VERY bad name. We decided that I would start helping him teach and I have to say that was AWESOME, because now I can try and help people understand that fighting does nothing for you and I'm a living example. Now I no longer keep track of where I'm at in training or anything, I honestly no longer care about it. To me now it is just learning what I missed because of my childish ways when I was younger.
So I lived and learned the SUPER hard way. I was hit in the pocket, on my record and in my heart, because the only 2 things I ever gave a **** about in life (besides family and friends) was my baseball career (which was cut short in the cape league when I ripped up both of my knees) and martial arts. I never wanted a career in Martial Arts, I did it because I loved it but sadly I missed the point of it when I was younger and it took a stupid knee jerk reaction from me to realize how much it ment to me and what the true point of it is.
So for anyone who says fighting makes you a big man, gives you respect, or settles issues needs to stop watching movies or hanging around the ghetto. Most people that say fighting solves problems either cant fight and they are putting up a front to try and counter act the fact that they are scared, or they are in the same childish frame of mind I was in when I screwed up. All that it gets you is more issues. You may not get the repercussions right away like I did, but there is a good chance they will come soon enough. It could be in the form of a lawsuit, ****ed off family and friends, possible jail time or in some cases which is becoming all the common now a days.........shootings or stabbings The only time fighting is worth anything is in self defense of you or someone else, other than that its not worth a **** thing.
COD2_fanatic I'm glad you worked it out with one of them, it shows that you are the bigger man in this case. If you can get through to one and not the other well you at least solved half your problem, now just let the other insecure child go away, because he is not worth the possible repercussions that could come down the road. When you really think about it why does anyone need to get a laugh out of making someone else life miserable? The only people that do that are the insecure kids that have issues at home, so just let them go its just not worth it.