You know you're addicted to martial arts if:

[Anth]

This list is a classic. You may want to check them off as you go, Scotto

You know you're addicted to martial arts if:


- You find yourself casually standing in a half cat stance.

- You tie your bathrobe belt in a square knot. Then check to make sure the ends are exactly even.

- You accept change from the cashier using a perfect knife hand with the thumb carefully tucked in.

- Every time you handle a screwdriver, razor, kitchen knife, etc. You just can't help changing grip from hammer to reverse to flip over to dagger grip etc.

- You refuse to wear shoes at home

- You shut the refrigerator door with a side kick.

- The books on your night stand are by authors like Gichin Funakoshi, Hirokazu Kanazawa and Musashi Miyamoto.

- You shop for clothes based on whether you can kick in them.

- You look for a place to live based on the amount of practice space it provides.

- Go to the shoe store to try on shoes and:
+ Instead of walking or jogging around the store, you practice pivoting, sweeps, stances and kicks.
+ You check to see if the shoe has a sufficiently hard striking surface and whether it protects the toes well
+ Buy shoes either because they're particularly flexible or have steel toes.
+ Lastly, you don't even care if (and they probably are) the other shoppers are looking at you funny. (That's the big clue)

- Use various strikes to turn lights off and on.

- Don your clothing with kicks, thrusts, and punches.

- Open and close doors with spinning kicks.

- Find yourself idly doing iaido and kenjitsu moves with the plastic knives at the fast food place.

- Haven't gotten over the phase of seeing everybody walking around with a blanket of little red cross-hairs on all their vital organs and pressure points.

- Notice you never stand with your arms crossed or your hands in your pockets.

- Tend to keep at least one flavour of martial arts weapon close at hand by your bed when you sleep.

- Dream/fantasise about hitting people.

- Have the urge to bow every time you enter or leave a room.

- Accidentally call your favourite teachers 'sensei'.

- Find yourself practising stances while standing in lines.

- Are introduced to someone and you bow to greet them.

- You find yourself wondering which nearby objects would be best used as weapons if someone attacked you right now.

- Have to at any point say "What was I doing on my own when I was spinning around and flailing my arms and legs? Ahhhhhmmmmmmm....."

[scotto]

Yikes,, I do every one of these…

[Anth]

So do I

Accidentally call your favourite teachers 'sensei'.

Thats easy to do, when one of the teachers is a Shodan and is married to a Sandan - unknown to all in the school apart from those at the club