How old were you when you started martial arts and what style

First lesson was in generic strip mall "Karate". My best friend went to wrestle with his brother and discovered brother had been taking lessons. A spinning back kick later, we were suddenly obsessed with MA. This was mid-to-late 70s - I forget the year. You have to remember that back then martial arts was all the rage - Kung Fu was still on the air or just off it, Bruce Lee was very recent memory, and in the small suburb I lived in, I could walk to at least two different martial arts studios in a few minutes from our house. Heck, there were at least five or six separate martial arts comics books from DC and Marvel back then.

First serious study was Kung Fu San Soo in my early 20s.

 

6 months of karate at age 8, 10 years of tae kwon do age 11 to 21, then changed the dojang I had bought from my instructor to taekwondo from age 21 to now (I'm 40).
Also studied Hapkido from age 16 to 36 but gave it up to put more effort into Krav Maga

 

Well if you count boxing then I started at age 14 at a pro gym. Then did tkd at age 34 for two years, did one year of shotokan, been doing japanese jujitsu since age 40. I'm now 55 and I teach private self defense lessons from my basement studio.

Hold the rank of 3rd Dan in JJ along with an instructor's certificate from the American Jujitsu Association.

 

23 i started boxing and at 27 i started BJJ. By next wed i will be starting Hapkido and a week after that i start judo.

 

Seventeen and Lau Gar.

 

About 10 or so when I started Karate, and I must've kept at it for about a year. I was 30 when I returned to start again.

 

16, Boxing

(wish I was much younger but I suppose 16 isn't bad, been training in that and other things literally every day since)

 

6 years old, Karate.

I then moved on to Kickboxing at 11.

 

I was 10 years old and did Judo for 3 years. Then stopped for ... 27 years.

Then at 40 I have started with TaiJitsu.

 

I started learning wing chun at age 7 or so from the neighbor kid. Mainly I just took punches but he taught me some of the Siu Nim Tao. When I was 10 I studied aikido for a little while and got up to blue belt whatever that means. I now practice Chen taiji more than anything.

 

I started learning Taiji when I was 7. Oneday I got into fight and I didn't know how to use my Taiji. I then spent my next 3 years worked on "1 step 3 punches". Even today, I still don't know which style does "1 step 3 punches" should belong to.

 

I started Tang Soo Do at 17 achieved my 1st degree black belt, then stopped around 2008 due to college and starting a family.

Now I'm 32 and starting Muay Thai!!

 

Judo at eight years old.
Dabbled a bit in other martial arts forms as a youth (wing-chun, aikido, karatedo & generic self defence based jujutsu)
Started doing Koryu Bujutsu (classical Japanese martial arts) at 19.

I had to pack in judo in 2009 due to a spine injury.

 

All TaeKwonDo, dabbled in Kung Fu and Karate, but sticked with TKD as:
Started 11 years old
Started a break at 18 years
Returned at 31 years
New lease on life with more gusto and dedication than ever at 35

 

I started kenpo around 9 years old, did TKD for a year a little younger but didn't learn very much from it.

 

10 years old and Shotokan Karate

 

I studied taekwondo for about 2 years when I was 11. I took up boxing when I was about 22 for 3 years. After that, I took a taekwondo course in college for fun and as a slight recap. A few years later, I'm now learning Ninpo.

 

Yudo - Age 5
All of my time is now dedicated to Tae Kwon Do and Koryo Gumdo

 

I was 8 when i started boxing.