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Does anybody here do some form of Martial Art? I'm a yellow belt in Taekwondo. I started out as a little kid, but then I stopped, and I just recently started it back up again. I love it. It's fun and useful, and it gives you a great workout.

I reached 1st degree Black Belt in Taekwondo about 6 years ago but i had to quit since then unfortunately. 

got my first degree in Karate (working on second) also have started grappling and dabbling into Krav Maga

I studied a bit of sayoc cali, then transitioned into learning to fight with two weapons, one strong side and one weak side. By far my favorite combination is a Western W49 bowie knife on weak side and my Cold Steel either spike hawk or trailhawk on strong side (lefthand for me). I do a fair bit of hawk throwing too. Not too into the whole eastern martial arts stuff. I never Bought into or got the whole zen thing

I'm a level 1 MACP combatant, just like any soldier who's been through BCT.  For the uninformed or uninitiated it's a mix of Gracie Jujitsu (ground fighting) and Muay Thai (striking) although pretty much all you learn (in BCT at least) is the ground fighting part.

My dad is a 2nd degree black belt and I believe my friend at school is a 1st degree.

I used to do it as a little kid, but I could never find the time to get back into it.

Taekwondo, Kendo, Aikido, and kickboxing.

Pretty much everything had to stop after  breaking my knee.

You're asian; you're born with these skills.

I'm not trained to fight, I'm trained to kill

2nd Ranger wrote: got my first degree in Karate (working on second) also have started grappling and dabbling into Krav Maga

I hear you are also an expert in "Marshall" arts.

idiot88 wrote: I hear you are also an expert in "Marshall" arts.

was waiting to see who would be the first to make the connection lol +1 

I am not one for stringent physical activity, not that you can tell though, you know, because of my extremely toned figure and all.

My father owned a Traditional Shotokan Karate studio and was extremely involved in it. He was close friends with Hidetaka Nishiyama and traveled all over doing camps and seminars with him. As a kid I remembered being amazed at how ridiculously awesome Hidetaka Nishiyama was, despite being ancient and drinking and smoking like no one else I've ever seen. I still have a lot of his old books signed by all the authors.

my friend's mom teaches krav maga, and his bro has blackbelts in three forms of martial arts is 17 and like 5'3"