First Exposure to Martial Arts?

[ArmorOfGod]

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.

AoG

[Sohan]

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.

Respectfully,

Sohan

[lordtariel]

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

[Whitefeather]

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

[Rateh]

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.

[pineapple]

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

[EmrldWepn]

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.

[bushido_man96]

I was first exposed to the arts when my dad took me to class with him when I was probably around 4 or 5. Didn't know it then, but I was hooked.

[greenbelt_girl15]

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'

[Brandon Fisher]

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.