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

Started Kamishin Ryu Karate when I was 8, quit a year later (like a lot of kids do). Started again at the same club when I was 14 and I'm still there now aged 22 and 2nd dan.

As of a few weeks ago I'm also studying Aikido (Dynamic Aikido Nocquet) and enjoying being back at the bottom of the pecking order.

 

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Shaolin 5 Pattern Hung kuen

Now 35, taking a break from Chow Gar southern mantis, but really should get along to some lessons as soon as I have a car again.

 

6. Karate (don't know the style). Didn't stick to it for long (about six months) and didn't get any belts. I restarted training, this time in Tang Soo Do, when I was 18.

 

wing chun at 21 for a few months, 23 capoeira for 2 years, 26 tai chi yang style, still doing tai chi at 31, yue chia at 31.

 

Gojushinki Ryu at 14, still with it after a year and a half. A bit of tai chi and escrima here and there, but nothing major. And in case anybody's wondering why i call it Gojushinki Ryu instead of just Goju Ryu, it's because Goju Ryu is the original style practised in Okinawa. Because of the obvious changes that have been made between there and Canadian Goju, we call it Gojushinki Ryu, which loosely means "In the spirit of the hard-soft style." We don't train in Goju, we train in the spirit of it.

 

I started when I was 14 with ITF Tae Kwon Do and haven't stopped yet

 

Started when I was about a month shy of 20.Yang TCC.

 

Started with Wado Ryu Karate in my early 20s. Couple of years of that, then Aikido for 3-4 years, then Shorinji Kempo for the last 10 years or so. Many gaps in training though.

 

Ummm...

I dont remember when I started, but I had a black belt in TKD by 12, according to my certificate.

 

My father was a boxing champ in the army years ago and at aged 5 he was training me to box to deal with couple of "big kids who chased me home" they were about 6 or 7 but I remember them being huge.

They left me alone after that and I moved onto Wado Ryu Karate at about aged 7, then kickboxing/Jujitsu, Ninjutsu and then MMA/cross training.

There have been fleeting add ons in Aikido and all sorts of others.

 

at 15 I was self taught at Monkey-see monkey-do.

 

I started karate (Shotokan) at the age of 3 with my uncle.

 

I started Sankukai Karate at 11 years old and i am now 12.

 

started thai boxing at 8

 

Shotokan when I was 9, but now teach Celtic Dragon Hybrid Gung Fu.

 

wado ryu at 13, to many to count hits and missis with TKD (wtf) from 16 to 51, back on the horse last 10 months

 

Shotokan Karate at the ripe old age of 29, about 5 months ago.

 

Taiji at 7, Lohan at 11, long fist and Shuai Chiao at 14.

 

I was 7 when I started Shotokan Karate. I'm a month shy of 40, and I'm now an eclectic Tradititional Karate-ka (there's a contradiction for you to work out).

 

Kenpo Karate - age 31. (around september 2, 2009)

Shotokan karate - age 31. (joined around september 10, 2009)

(thinking of doing a second semester of kenpo in addition to my shotokan....just for da lolz of it.....i don't think i'll be able to do 50 pushups though and thats required in that school to get a yellow belt, not sure if thats fair at all, I learned everything required to pass a test for kenpo but i cant do 50 pushups but thats for another topic)

But shotokan is my real and one true love. :love: