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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2012 23:23:29 GMT -5
Why did you get into martial arts?
Me= Interest in Asian culture and the need to defend myself after I was attacked one night.
Why did you choose your martial art?
Me= My mate is a policemen and at his place I asked all of his work mates and he asked others who are experienced at work too. They all suggested either Aikido or Hapkido with Boxing or Thai Boxing. So that's why I do Hapkido and Boxing.
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Keyboard Warrior
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Post by Keyboard Warrior on Oct 4, 2012 3:50:57 GMT -5
I was 6. I loved the video game street fighter, and I wanted to be just like Ryu. And a kid at school was picking on me, and I wanted to beat him up. So I thought martial arts would be the perfect way to accomplish both goals. So I joined up in a kenpo karate school for about 10 years.
Along the way I began to really appreciate asian culture, and I eventually fell in love with it. Then I joined up in MMA, and started doing BJJ...technically our style was Japanese Jiu Jitsu, but we roll the same damn way Brazilians do. This made me fall in love particularly in Japanese culture and the Samurai.
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Post by the tank on Oct 4, 2012 10:36:00 GMT -5
When I was about 13 I did therapy for my back (it was deformed). Part of the therapy included weightlifting. The gym had a Karate dojo, and the Sensei was part owner. He said that he would allow me to do weightlifting if I would try the karate class once my therapy was over, I readily accepted. The journey began
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Post by rollingrock128 on Oct 4, 2012 12:18:40 GMT -5
honestly i didn't even want to. then my parents put me in taekwondo. really enjoyed it. the rest is history
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odee
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Kyokushin 10 years - Brazilian Jujitsu 3 years - Muay Thai 2 years.
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Post by odee on Oct 7, 2012 20:29:29 GMT -5
I kind of got into it twice. The first time I was forced into it by school and it was a rubbish Taekwando class (not saying Taekwando is bad, just that particular teacher) second time came about partially because of the first. I was talking to a friend who at some point in the conversation mentioned doing Karate, I remembered the Taekwando classes and told him that kind of thing was rubbish, he laughed and told me I wouldn't last the night. Challenge accepted, got destroyed, stayed for ten years. Loved. Every. Second.
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Post by imforreal on Oct 23, 2012 12:00:15 GMT -5
sick and tired of being the target of every bully around me.
and it was a dream of mine since the first time I watched the Ninja Turtles
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Post by peppermillk on Nov 2, 2012 1:27:14 GMT -5
me and my brother visited a karate school when our mum wanted us to do sumthing fun that wasn;t a team sports. (we did them a lot). i was 14 at the time. we hated the school the karate teacher seems rly cocky and hurt my brother in the class. on purpose. elbow in chest to demonstarte why he should avoid getting hit. wow. anyways then we went to a kung fu school. we sat in for 10 minutes. its seemed odd. and the instructor grabbed sum guy by the hair and motioned a knee in the face. like explaining about it. we both thought it was too agressive and left. 3 yrs later, i have no idea why but i returned to that school and it's been three years. plan on many more years and i have no interest in any other styles. i've been hooked
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Post by Mr Wonderful on Nov 2, 2012 2:32:56 GMT -5
I started doing boxing because my I saw Mike Tyson's greatest hits. I started bjj at the suggestion of my boxing coach.
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jimr
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Post by jimr on Nov 7, 2012 19:38:58 GMT -5
I didn't like the attitudes of the parents in soccer, so we signed our kids up in Hapkido. I wanted to be in class from the moment I saw it. It took two years to finally convince my wife I should join instead of watch.
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Post by Glutton4Punishment on Nov 18, 2012 1:19:56 GMT -5
I have always been naturally drawn to martial arts. I was 11 or 12 when I started after a Long Fist Kung Fu school opened right around the corner from my childhood home and I begged my parents to sign me up for a few weeks. When I was young, my Dad always told me that if I really wanted something enough then I had to ask over and over again for a long time. He didn't want to waste money on anything that I was just going to get bored with so he knew that I would stop asking after a week if I had lost interest and it wasn't that important to me. I finally ended up getting into the class and I never went long without doing some kind of martial art after that.
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Post by The Last Airbender on Nov 18, 2012 22:44:38 GMT -5
To be honest, I started because I wanted to be a badass who could win street fights. I thankfully, snapped out of that dreadful mindset once I actually started attending and researching peaceful martial arts related stuff and realized that it's my obligation to NEVER street fight unless I have to because I could ruin someone's life. Also, I loved Avatar: The Last Airbender and I wanted to be able to show off like as if I were an airbender. ...I have not yet lost that mindset.
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Chef Samurai
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Post by Chef Samurai on Nov 25, 2012 2:41:54 GMT -5
mine is a revised version of kws story but I got into muay thai & wrestling because of sagat now we must fight lol
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