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some jackass grabbed me when I was 12 and I kicked him really hard in the shins and punched him the stomach. He walked away, but I was still mad so I ran to a security guard and they made a big deal out of it.

I was honestly pretty embarassed at the time, but after that, I really wanted to learn how to fight and protect myself whenever I would need it. Till this day, I still hate the feeling of being helpless...its like nails on a chalkboard to me.

My best friend, at the time, when I got back to school, had been part of a martial arts group since she was 8 and so I started to join with her. At first, it was really hard for me to focus because I had never tried anything like that before, but soon, I learned to savor it as both an art, and a strength in my character.

screw all pervs.

I guess the intrest in Eastern philosophy led to the interest in Eastern martial arts and that led to intersets in other martial arts. they are also a very beautiful thing much like other people watch a dance and think "how beautiful" for me I watch someone doing Nine Psalms and feel the same thing.

My story is somewhat amusing, I suppose.

It all started with a crush, and a commercial. When I was seven (13 years ago), I had some crush on this kid who was in Tae Kwon Do. A green belt, no less. This interested me, having never really been the sportsy type. When I arrived home one day during that school year, and turned on the TV, there was a commercial for a local TKD school that had been around for a year or so. It was the same school he went to, so I begged my parents to join. My dad used to be in martial arts, so he supported the idea. I joined, but as soon as I reached about green belt, the boy who got me started moved across the country and I never saw him again.

I've been in it since that day. Never wanted to quit, though I always laugh at how such a silly thing could get someone started in something that would last so long.

DBZ xp

and i still love it, im sorry to say it but you just cant beat DBZ

A boy got me started, paid for me too but never told me he was for the first three months XD I was kindau pset when I found out. got to be best friends with him, broke up, dropped out of TaweKwonDo, and just in the last six months (this is 3-4 years later) I've taken up at InfernoMartialArts in my area, grappling, MMA, and Mayu Thai Boxing, along with two days called 'fightclub' which is just hell ._. It's nothing but conditioning and running and jump rope and stuff.

To be honest, when I was small and I took Tae Kwon Do I was sooooo into it at first. My grandmaster was super proud of me in my white belt days. But hearing his compliments made me slack off. And after I quit I regret it to the fullest. crying But I gotta thank ppl like Bruce Lee, Tony Ja, and Musashi Miyamoto man. Reading up on them and watching their movies *Musashi himself didn't have a movie so I read on him sweatdrop * motivated me to get back into the Martial Arts. So I wanted to enroll in Chanbara training last year but dojos are FAR from my house. I'm a MA freak but I'm not that obsessed to travel 10 miles to attend a dojo. So I found a Chinese Gung Fu institute close to my school, and I'm gonna attend it! Until I just do my own training routines and read until I have to time to start off for real.