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 Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:58 pm
meh it is a family thing....
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:56 am
I was the slightly pathetic bookworm everyone picked on. Well, taekwondo changed THAT. Not straight away (I am really not predispososed to any kind of sport, and actually ended up breaking down crying in training a couple of times before I found my backbone...) but I was determined to not be a soft little bully-target any more!
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:56 am
It was working full time for McD's and feeling like my life was going nowhere. After pulling a late shift and then getting ready to pull an early shift I watched the movie "The Hunted"
I got exited and started looking up kenjutsu schools. I then joined one half-way across the country.
Best decision of my life.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:59 am
Cos I wanted to fight people xd
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:42 pm
Well, besides always liking older things,I guess it was just the fun of them. I've just always been drawn to them.
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:19 pm
Cos' i wanted to learn it.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:37 am
i think all those chinese films such as Hero, Crouching Tiger and Fearless got me slightly interested
i wanted to learn how to break someones arm when they charged at me
i started going because my sister said that we should check it out and she wanted someone to go with... so i went with and it was great fun
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:34 pm
my best friend was doing martial arts and it interested me.so i tried to see what it was like and i loved it[so still doing martial arts, though not the one i first learnt]
. i didnt really see much martial art movies when i was little.
except i remember this one about a girl whose uncle or something came to stay with her. she was looking after a hawk or eagle that broke its wing.
the part i remember most is her uncle takes her to a monk sanctuary or something and she has to jump kick and then land on the other rock, she thought it was impossible until she kept trying and in the end finally managed it. and also she had to be blindfolded and bags of sand[or something] were swung at her and she had to deflect/defend or dodge them. that was cool and she had to use this later on in a fight[being blinded]
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:55 am
Mahlyndah It was working full time for McD's and feeling like my life was going nowhere. After pulling a late shift and then getting ready to pull an early shift I watched the movie "The Hunted" I got exited and started looking up kenjutsu schools. I then joined one half-way across the country. Best decision of my life. Dude. High five.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:25 pm
Me? Power Rangers, TMNT(the original cartoon), and the need to defend myself.
My siblings joined at the same time I did and they both dropped out. I'm still goin strong and kicking butt.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:28 pm
the whole self defence thing got me into it. and my dad saying that he learned shotokan a little bit back in the army
i always had this thing about protecting me and my family against "evil dides" when i was younger. and my parents wanted me to learn how to defend myself.
so my mom enrolled me into taekwondo. but my dad had to go back to school so he tried to enroll me into seibukan. at first i thought leaving my dojon was a bad thing but after seeing the other students there with dicpline and strenghth i decided to join. i had the BEST time
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:06 am
A whole bunch of reasons, though I'm not going to say the most personal ones:
-I've been doing martial arts on and off since I was a little kid, and I finally found a place I liked. Originally, my family also joined with me, though all but my dad dropped out
-I want to be able to defend myself. The world isn't the best place, and I like at least knowing I'm doing something that could help protect the people I care about
-I love it, and I love learning all sorts of new weapons, kicks, etc.
-I made a few really good friends there, and I like the atmosphere
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:51 pm
I was extremely violent from age two to eleven, as in actually trying to kill a wide range of people. Then at fifteen, I saw a TKD studio that said weapon sparring on the front window (I had been beating the hell out of my friends with pipes and stick for two years and was bored with them), so I went back when the place was open, and asked the man there about sparring with him to see if I was any good... for half an hour he bashed the top of my head in with a shonai.
This was at the beggining of summer, so, every night for the rest of summer break as soon as the sun went down, I was outside training. I felt so much stronger after three month's, so I went back down and asked to spar with him again... same thing happens; but this time he offers to let me train with him in a sword class. For the first three months he didnt teach me a thing, he just thought that if he beat the crap out me enough I'd leave; and then when a student who he had a lot of faith invested in dissapeared one day (so that he can get sex from a new girlfriend an hour earlier on Wednesdays), Shawn realized that I was in it to get stronger, like him.
It was with him I started practicing Kaze Arashi Ryu, and I dont think I could have ever found an art quite like it if I didnt put up with three months of an award-winning second degree olympic sparring tae kwon do black-belt using me as a rag-doll.
He never did get sick of seeing how hard he go on me.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:53 pm
Mahlyndah It was working full time for McD's and feeling like my life was going nowhere. After pulling a late shift and then getting ready to pull an early shift I watched the movie "The Hunted" I got exited and started looking up kenjutsu schools. I then joined one half-way across the country. Best decision of my life. What school is that?
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:34 pm
Father son bonding time. Then from that point on it was all about bloodlust and justice.
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