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Nicktheguy2014
White Belt
Joined: 26 Jun 2023
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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:03 pm Post subject: What made you get into martial arts? |
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My story begins when I was 5. For some reason my older brothers who were 9 and 10 enjoyed picking on and tormenting me. They both played football, basketball, and baseball.
One time when we were at a family get together my brothers were both hold me down and sitting on me slapping me and giving me a Wedgie,
My cousin who was 15 at the time saw and came and stopped them, he then told me I should do karate. So he brought me to his class and j fell in love with martial arts |
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Zaine
Black Belt
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 2242
Location: Dallas, TX
Styles: Matsumura-Seito, Shobayashi-Ryu, Shudokan, Long Fist, American Street Karate, Southern Mantis, HEMA
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I was home schooled and I needed a P.E. activity. We knew a guy who was giving karate lessons for free. It took me about a year to really get into it, but once I was hooked... I was hooked.
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Nicktheguy2014
White Belt
Joined: 26 Jun 2023
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Zaine wrote: |
| I was home schooled and I needed a P.E. activity. We knew a guy who was giving karate lessons for free. It took me about a year to really get into it, but once I was hooked... I was hooked. |
that’s awesome |
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aurik
KF Sempai
Joined: 08 Nov 2016
Posts: 458
Location: Denver, CO
Styles: Shuri-Ryu, Uechi-Ryu
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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The original karate kid movie (and karate kid part 2) were my inspiration.
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DarthPenguin
Brown Belt
Joined: 03 Dec 2021
Posts: 722
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Styles: Shotokan, Judo, BJJ
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For myself rather typical. People started picking on me when i was about 5 due to my ethnic origin (am mixed race, which was a bigger deal back then!). Was getting in fights daily so my dad sent me to a karate class in one of the crazier parts of the West of Scotland - was a 1.5hr drive each way and my dad took me 4 times a week! Enjoyed the class and it paid dividends so a win/win!
Have pretty much trained ever since other than the odd bit of time off due to injuries and when kids were first born |
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Fat Cobra
Blue Belt
Joined: 14 Jul 2018
Posts: 343
Location: Watertown, NY
Styles: Ryukyu Kempo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| aurik wrote: |
| The original karate kid movie (and karate kid part 2) were my inspiration. |
Same here!
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sensei8
KF Sensei
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
Posts: 16246
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Styles: Shindokan Saitou-ryu [Shuri-te/Okinawa-te based]
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The need to eat lunch when I was in elementary school.
As a second grader, I was bullied every day at school by the same group of 6th graders. Everyday they'd get me, mostly whenever I was in the boys' restroom, at every chance that they could to take my lunch money.
They'd corner me and give me a nice gut shot.
I'd get home after school and raid the fridge. Shortly, my raiding the fridge caught my mom's attention. She'd question me, however, I never told her the real reason for as long as I could.
I told my mom. She went to the school to raise all terror. Mom paid for lunches by the week; she'd go to the school every Monday. So I had no money to be robbed from me but I was still being bullied.
So, mom enrolled me into a local Karate school...the rest, as they say, is history.
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30001
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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My dad introduced me when I was really young, probably around 6 or 8 or so. He just drug me along to a few classes he went to. I wasn't a committed student at that time, but the seed had been planted.
Fast forward to my 8th grade year, a buddy of mine talked me into coming to a TKD class. That was it.
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KarateKen
Orange Belt
Joined: 12 Nov 2021
Posts: 196
Location: Dojo
Styles: Karate
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| I did it for the money. |
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Zaine
Black Belt
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 2242
Location: Dallas, TX
Styles: Matsumura-Seito, Shobayashi-Ryu, Shudokan, Long Fist, American Street Karate, Southern Mantis, HEMA
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| KarateKen wrote: |
| I did it for the money. |
You were making money learning karate?
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