I don't know how Brad Pitt does it.

[davywavy]

"Oh deary me", I said when I realised. "I seem to have forgotten my boxing gloves."
"That's alright", replied Ninja Master, holding up the pads. "Two sets. Bare-knuckle punching. Go."

Never again. Never, ever again.

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[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Pain is just weakness leaving the body. Apparently.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nope, mine is sitting right there in my hands. Right under the bruises in fact.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

My ankle/shin combo hasn't even bothered bruising yet. It's just sitting there, sulkily saying "I can't believe you did that to me!"

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

YOu should have seen the bruising on my shin. It was about eight inches from top to bottom and still hasn't completely vanished, two and a half weeks later.

That makes me a man, that does. Oh yes. I'm nails, me.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Sweet furry Christ, that can't be right. *shudders*

I find it amazing the degree to which we tolerate being smacked around in the pursuit of fitness...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It seems like such a good idea at the time.

And I blame the guy I train with. He pushes all my competitiveness buttons.

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

That makes me a man, that does. Oh yes. I'm nails, me.

So that means you'll cease your bruise whining? :o)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

But it huuurts!


Ahem.
I mean.
Ha! I sneer at pain! It cannot affect me!

Has anyone got any deep heat?

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

So no more girlish squeals when prodded? I'm finding that hard to believe...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I can focus my internal energies to make me immune to such assaults.

Um. Yup.

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

I take stick. I hit you across back of legs. You say nothing.

I think it's worth testing out ;oP

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Do I get to put a book down the back of my trousers?

[ditzy-pole.livejournal.com]

So you can shove down Richardson's Clarissa? No... I think not...

[quisalan.livejournal.com]

Who the hell said that?!

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine who does a different style of kung fu to me. I think he was joking, but only a little bit. He's a bit of an odd one, in truth.

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Was that me?
Bob says that all the time- I think it's an ex-army thing.

And once you get used to bare padwork you'll be fine!

JmC
Not a para

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Nah, Neil, who does Black Dragon Kung Fu at the Uni.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, that seems to be the sort of T-Shirt PTSD 'Marlboro Man' wears to US Marine recruitment offices...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-marlboro19may19,0,4643056.story?page=3&track=tothtml

[quisalan.livejournal.com]

I did that at karate. Once. The punchbag was covered in blood, and I still have slight scars on my knuckles (2 years later).

Plus, typing was a bastard for days, and it wasn't exactly customer-facing friendly.

I've refused to do it again ever, too.

[gwaunquest.livejournal.com]

I find your facination with pain interesting. Somewhwere in there is a devout masacist (can't spell). Seriously, when fencing I wear chest protector and jacket and still end up with bruises (usually inflicted by ten year old boys).How do you not only accept the pain without running away to hide but actually go back for more?

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Because it's cracking fun!

Full contact thai boxing, baby! You get the shit beaten out of you but it's a great rush!

JmC
Just be sure to wear a groin guard...

[kcontheroad.livejournal.com]

Last night I showed my tae kwan do instructor my entire-foot-encompassing black bruise. I was stunned when even HE said, "That's a bad one." It's actually the after effects of a shin-to-shin hit during sparring. The pain is in the shin. The blood has merely pooled in the foot due to gravity.

That'll teach me to wash my shin guards and then forget to put them back into my gear bag. . .

[applez.livejournal.com]

"I don't know how Brad Pitt does it"

A rhetorical question perhaps, but I would add it probably helps being the alternate personality of Ed Norton, whilst also getting the Angelina lurve at home.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I don't know how Brad Pitt does it.

He doesn't. He's acting!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nonsense! it must be true! They filmed it happening!