In football it's that cleat pounding, frantic ninety yard runback. In baseball it's that big old home run into the far bleachers. In the sometimes bloody world of the martial arts its...the knockout!
There is just something about a knock out that is exhilarating. Two grown men putting it on the line, and no sissy refs decision! Just, blood, bruises, and one guy lays down for the snoozes.
The fourth funniest knock out I have ever seen was a classmate of mine name of Jeff. We were having a seminar on breaking, and Jeff asked the instructor if you could break a board with your head. Minutes later we all heard a mighty thonk--and Jeff suddenly stood in the door, severely slanted and not sure where he was.
The third funniest knock out I ever heard of couldn't be called a complete knock out, but it was so close we'll count it. An instructor was teaching a class of children how to defend themselves, and, let's be honest, he was playing to the watching parents. Suddenly a five year old carried through with his technique--and kicked the instructor right in the golden oldies, and the instructor crawled like a worm into the back room where the sound of a grown man worshipping the porcelain throne issued forth.
The second funniest knock out I ever witnessed was an amazing work of art type knock out. My instructor was practicing kicks of the jumping variety under a long flying tree. We found him there, totally unconscious, sprawled on the cold ground with bark splinters embedded in his forehead.
The first funniest knock out I ever saw, however, has to belong to me. I was practicing push ups on fingers. After months I was down to two straight fingers, and I was perched proud and precarious on two digits of each hand, and...they gave way.
All the power I had been concentrating into my fingers gave way, I couldn't catch myself, and the ground rushed up and slapped me in the face. That's right, I knocked myself out doing a push up.
It wasn't in the middle of a fight for guts and glory, it was just silly, so silly that I put myself forth for the funniest knock out of all time. I mean, knocking myself stiff with a push up? I mean, that is so idiotic that it is beyond embarrassment.
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