kenpo_fighter Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 Greetings Fellow Martial Artist. I stumbled onto this website the other week & seemed to be a very decent forum to communicate with other fighters like myself. I started training in Kyokushin Karate when I was about 8 yrs. old. Being a "Navy Brat", my family got stationed at the US Navy base in Japan. There, I began my martial arts journey. I had the privilege studying under a Japanese Sensei who treated me no different than his Japanese students. After 5 years hard studying & training, I had become a Shodan in Kyokushin. Once I got into high school, I stopped studying to explore other athletic opportunities. I was on the high school football & wrestling teams all through high school and got play baseball & track & field. I would find out later that my grappling experience would prove to be useful when I returned to the martial arts. 14 years after I had stopped studying, fate said it was time for me to come back home. For almost 2 years, my heart burned with a longing to start training again. The only problem was where to start. I felt like a warrior in search of a conquest. Something was missing from my life and my heart had sensed it. A year has passed since I've started studying Kenpo, the original form of Kyokushin Karate. I recently was promoted to Shodan in the Tracy's Kenpo Organization, an honor I did not yet feel worthy of, but an honor none the less. I've also spent the past year studying Aikido & Iaido (study of the Samurai Sword) alongside my kenpo training. The marriage of Aikido entering moves with Kenpo techniques has made me a more effective & efficient fighter than I ever was both on the street and in the arena. These days I train in hopes to someday give back to the martial arts community what it has given to me by opening a dojo of my own and continue the tradition and honor of what makes the true Martial Artist. Training again has felt like returning home after 14 years. It still feels right. It's great to be back home! Wisdom is knowledge rightly applied. To fight wisely is to rightly apply techniques.
pineapple Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 Hi kenpo_fighter! and welcome home! What works works
Red J Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 Welcome to the forums. I had to lose my mind to come to my senses.
vertigo Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 Welcome to KF, kenpo_fighter! "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot
greenbelt_girl15 Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 Hi kenpo_fighter! Welcome to KF. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, a spirit of power, and of self-discipline.2 Timothy 1:7
aefibird Posted March 30, 2005 Posted March 30, 2005 Hello kenpo-fighter!Welcome to Karate Forums - and welcome home to martial arts. "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
Pacificshore Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 Welcome aboard, and back to the never-ending journey Di'DaDeeeee!!!Mind of Mencia
Mr. Mike Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 ahhh...more kenpo, just what the doctor ordered...welcome. When a man's fortunate time comes, he meets a good friend;When a man has lost his luck, he meets a beautiful woman.-anonymous
karatekid101 Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 Welcome KarateKid101"The answers to life aren't in the back of the book"- Charlie Brown
June1 Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Welcome home! Kool Kiais: ICE! DIE! KITES! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH! KIAI!"Know Thyself""Circumstances make me who I am."
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