{"id":34982,"date":"2026-03-08T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34982"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:50:16","slug":"i-brought-this-upon-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/08\/i-brought-this-upon-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I Brought This Upon Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after watching all those Bruce Lee movies, I planned to go into my martial arts class yesterday morning and say that I&#8217;d watched them and picked up some bad new habits for sparring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot of kung fu kata peacocking between strikes.<\/li>\n<li>Happy feet making like Irish dancing before beginning.<\/li>\n<li>Making single strikes instead of combinations, and making them big so the people in the last row can see them.<\/li>\n<li>Using my forearm to block everything: Spin heel kicks, bo staffs, sticks, speeding trucks, <em>anything<\/em>.  And the forearm stops them cold.<\/li>\n<li>Hooting when I strike.  You&#8217;re supposed to exhale to tighten everything up, which leads to the &#8220;hi-ya!&#8221;  Which my school has seemingly stopped emphasizing.  As it stands, I already make martial arts sound effects a lot of times when I strike.<\/li>\n<li>Thumbing my nose mid-bout.  Although it will be harder to do with boxing gloves on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any rate, I didn&#8217;t get to lay the spiel on anyone since <em>renshi<\/em> asked me what I was listening to (my question to him often is &#8220;What are you listening to?&#8221; because, in the past, he&#8217;s been in charge of the martial arts playlist and picked out metal).  So I had to talk about the new Frozen Crown CD instead.<\/p>\n<p>And, as part of our warmups, we had to run to the edge of the mat, do a couple pushups, and then run back.  Across the room, <em>kyoshi<\/em> joked with someone about doing them on fingertips like Bruce Lee, so down on my side of the mat, I tried it.  <em>And I could.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So that has been delighting me and bringing a smile to my face since.  Because, you know, <em>I am just like Bruce Lee.<\/em>  Although I will likely never get to one finger pushups because I do not have kung fu hands.<\/p>\n<p>And, the same day, I was listening to my workout playlist whilst dusting the lower level, and Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;Monster&#8221; came on, and it mentions Bruce Lee.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHkozMIXZ8w?si=g-IjxcEyCMNeUNuU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fame made me a balloon &#8217;cause my ego inflated<br \/>\nWhen I blew, see, but it was confusing<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s an illustration about how outsized an influence Bruce Lee had.  The man only made a couple of movies, but what an impact on the culture that he&#8217;s mentioned fifty-some years later in a martial arts class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after watching all those Bruce Lee movies, I planned to go into my martial arts class yesterday morning and say that I&#8217;d watched them and picked up some bad new habits for sparring: A lot of kung fu kata peacocking between strikes. Happy feet making like Irish dancing before beginning. Making single strikes instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34983,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions\/34983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}