I just published an aritcle about one of my many demo fails
YEAR OF THE DRAGON 2012: She Takes Her Fan and Throws it in the Lion's Den discusses how I split my head open and bled all over the place while lion dancing...twice.
I remember doing a demo for an elementary school and getting stuck in BSL #4. That for repeats a section so I was stuck in a loop. It was on the school theater stage and I kept realizing I was repeating myself facing our drummer, a talented teenager who I had just taught #4, with my back to the audience. The first time, I looked at him and whispered 'oops'. The second time, I looked at him again - he was trying not to laugh - it was a low pressure demo so I whispered 'I'll get out next time'. The third time I said 'Next time, definitely'. In the end, I just stopped and did a closing movement. Our drummer didn't let me live that down for years.
Every form performance is a shamfru dispray
Outside of the requisite embarrassment of doing a public form performance in and of itself (crappy music, realizing you are a thirty year old who does "kung fu"); I was supposed to do Xiao Luohan which I had just learned so I was already resigned to being extra terrible in the first place and we had just gotten new uniforms. Unifroms with nothing but cheap elastic to secure the waistband. . .
During a foot stomp right at the beginning my foot caught the inside of my other pant leg and pulled my ill fitting pants down just enough so that my ass was hanging out but not enough for me to notice that anything was amiss for the rest of the form. It just so happens that a good portion of Xiao Luohan is performed facing the opposite direction.
Of course everybody offered the helpful admonishment to pull my pants up AFTER I got down off the stage. . .