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First Exposure to Martial Arts?

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What was everyone's first exposure to the martial arts?

I am not asking what inspired you to train, just what was the first time you saw it? Also, what year if you can remember.

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Getting my face pounded by a kid in my neighborhood who boxed. I previously thought he was a big wuss. I was in the gym for my first boxing lesson the following day.

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Respectfully,

Sohan

"If I cannot become one of extraordinary accomplishment, I will not walk the earth." Zen Master Nakahara Nantenbo

 

"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action." Samuarai maxim

 

"Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is Enlightenment." Lao-Tzu

I'm a true child of the 80's. The Karate Kid was my first glimpse of the martial arts.

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My karate class. I had always wanted to do judo, karate, or something like that, but my first karate class was my first bona-fide exposure to the whole martial arts thing.

David

"Between genius and insanity, there lies a fine line. I like to think of it as the tip of the diving board."

-An anonymous insane genius


"Fight I, not as one that beateth the air"

Well, my mother says i went to a tournament when i was very young (1 or 2 years old), but i dont remember that...

My first memory is when my brother (1.5 years younger than me) took a parent-child karate class with my father when i was five years old.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein

I watched my older brother practice his moves at home, probably about 1970.

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My best friend at the time was into karate so I started too. I was 7 at the time.... so this would have been.. '87. That was really my first exposure too it.

Hard to remember, most likely a jackie chan movie,or just a library book.I remember for a long time having the vauge thought of 'karate seems really cool'

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

The first thing I saw of the martial arts on TV was the tv show Sidekicks with Ernie Reyes Jr. at least thats the first I remember.

Brandon Fisher

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