Ever wanted to choke your coach????

[ElliottEpee]

Ok this is my first post....right now my coach is giving me Excedrine headache # 9....and I just want to punch him....he is the greatest coach/person in the world, but he is driving me up the wall...
just wanted to see what other peoples expiriences w/ frustrating coaches were, and then i will share my WONDERFUL story....

[Zelda]

Elliott,
Its a natural reaction to occassionally want to choke, kill, dismember, disembowel and otherwise kill your coach. It generally happens when they drill the **** out of you and then say, "Good, but can be better..." or you are really happy with a result in a competition and they say to you on the phone "What happened?" They are frustrating, annoying but we gotta love them! I am still trying to work out how to break it to my coach I probably wont be based in Brissy when I get home.....

[Pa55w0rd]

i fight back with sarcasm, we both get a buzz out of it (keith if your reading)

[Philistine]

Back in the late 80's when I was in college, our fencing team was travelling & staying in a hotel when they had the movie "Young Sherlock Holmes" on HBO.

From that we leared a very important lesson: The fencing coach is always evil.



--Philistine

[KC]

I am more of a pseudo coach... I am only teaching beginners who have never experienced the sport in any way... You have to be a nice guy when it comes to these types cause if you don't they don't come back... On a different note I do get out my sadistic side in our warm up drills. <img src="graemlins/evil3.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil 2]" /> <img src="graemlins/evil3.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil 2]" /> <img src="graemlins/evil3.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil 2]" /> <img src="graemlins/jester.gif" border="0" alt="[Jester]" />

[Eileen]

"and then i will share my WONDERFUL story...."

I'd like to hear the story

[arcon]

I cant say ive wanted to choke my coach. Ive only had two....and the relationship with one was short lived and almost nonexistant. He was a coach who didnt really focus on his students very well. At least not individually. At least from my personal experience he didnt. The other is removed and lives to far away to see that often.
So.......the only coaches ive wanted to choke are those who see it their way and NO other way. Those that refuse to be objective and think they already
know everything they need to know about fencing.
Lets not forget those that value their own ego and position in the fencing world over the promotion of the sport through cooperation and calaboration with their peers. ok....my rant is done.

hmmmmmmmmmm does this mean i would have to choke all the coaches......hmmmmmmmmm hope not.

Coach Arcon

[touche turtle]

The coach I would most like to choke was not really my coach per se - I never took a lesson from him. He was old and fat and had quite a reputation. Occasionally he would make inappropriate comments to me and other women fencers (i.e. s**ual harrassment) and when I told him I was taking a lesson with another coach, he promptly threw me out of the club.

But I guess I've strayed from the original intent of this posting haven't I...

[Mergs]

OK Coaches, how about wanting to choke students!?! Especially ones that think they know everything already and argue with you on what you are trying to teach them. And then go off and dis you for not being concerned. Yeah, there have been a few that I wanted to choke.

[The Crazy Wacker]

[quote]Originally posted by Zelda:
<strong>Elliott,
Its a natural reaction to occassionally want to choke, kill, dismember, disembowel and otherwise kill your coach. It generally happens when they drill the **** out of you and then say, "Good, but can be better..." or you are really happy with a result in a competition and they say to you on the phone "What happened?" They are frustrating, annoying but we gotta love them! I am still trying to work out how to break it to my coach I probably wont be based in Brissy when I get home.....</strong><hr></blockquote>

You forgot about Strangling...

[Pa55w0rd]

[quote]Originally posted by The Crazy Wacker:
<strong>

You forgot about Strangling...</strong><hr></blockquote>

And what about running them through

[135711]

yes, only recently, i have thought about going to my former salle (twitch twitch) waiting for him on the steps (twich, blink) and when his little grey car parks, just sorta sit there and (twitch blink cough)and smile, and then, and then, as he runs up the stairs in his little green shorts, pull them down and chock him.

[Inquartata]

Heh, perhaps that's why they like to work students so hard, so you haven't any energy left with which to choke them...

[shyHeidi]

[quote]Originally posted by The Crazy Wacker:
<strong>

You forgot about Strangling...</strong><hr></blockquote>

Is there a real difference between choking someone and strangling them? Or do you just want to do it a few extra times, so you're counting all the different words for things...

[135711]

strangling is a little more violent, chocking is slightly different. for example: a person who screams violently can be said to be strangling on their words, [wheeze choke] then there's a sort of effort that goes into their words....and the words come out small and tiny and coupled with spit and saliva. whereas a chock is sometimes funny, it's like when the three stoogers chock oneanother, they do it out of frustrations, nyuk nyuk nyuk, knucklehead. arf arf.
okay, but really folks the guy in the other post has it right. i prefer a more distant relationship with instructors, it's more professional, however, sometimes, a friendship will develop after a while, not like bosom buddies, but more than an acquaintance, and less than an affair, but the other part is that it also can backfire, sort of like a silent partner in a business who gets the shaft.

[servdragoon]

i have a coach who yells at me to go faster when he does parry reposte drills with me up and down the strip. I could be going as fast as i can (which is pretty darn fast in my oh humble opinion), and he would still yell at the top of his lungs to go faster.

it hasnt quite made me want to choke him but it is frustrating once my arm gets so tired that i physically cant move it anymore faster. I really dont mind it too much when my arm isnt tired cuz it attracts attention and people will start watching the lesson, which i like. but once my arm starts to get slow cuz its really tired and he is still yelling, it can be a little embarassing cuz his cuts start to go through my parries.

[schlager7]

I guess I am lucky. I've never had the desire to throttle any of the coaches I have taken lessons from.

On the other hand, if I ever find the person who devised the drill involving a lunge followed by nearly endless re-attacks across the gym...

[swordsen]

I'm with Mergs. there are a few students I would really like to put a choke hold on every now and then.

[Thaddeus]

so far the only choach i have had has been the coolest guy ever, although i think it helpls that i was one of his favorits in my beging class our coe instructor is a bit of a dick though but that is just because he thinks hes the best "you killed my father prepare to die" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[shyHeidi]

Bah, he's not a dick, he just wants to scare away the beginners who aren't serious so he doesn't have to deal with them.