Flawless Victory

[davywavy]

Sometimes, in moments of hubris, I start thinking I'm getting quite good at this being a Ninja lark. I've been training pretty solidly for four years and I get to thinking that were I, say, to happen across a ne'er-do-well roughing up a nun on the way home I'd be able to give a good accounting of myself before sending them on their way suitably chastened.
I only think this sometimes, obviously. At other times, I watch ninja master perform some outrageous move like dropping into a legsweep and following it up with a tornado kick and a dragon kick in one smooth movement and with no apparent sign of effort.
At those times, what I'm thinking is: "Just who the hell do I think I'm kidding?"

Comments

[kcontheroad.livejournal.com]

I didn't think I could, either, when I started. Really. To look at me, you'd never ever think I could do these things.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, for a lot of the stuff on the list I'm assuming it means "Without stoppping"; I probably wouldn't do that badly if I could occasionally go: *Stops* "One monent" *deep breath* "okay" *Starts again*.
I can't do more than 50-60 pushups, and the 100 roundhouse kicks without putting my foot down is beyond me. I've not done any board breaking in ten years so that's probably beyond me now, too. Of all of that, I'd probably find the sparring easiest, because I do a lot of sparring.
Overall, though, I reckon I could do maybe 75% of that list, which I'm not too peeved about