Just stumbled across this forum. Great site!
I am 41 and have decided to get back into the martial arts after all these years. All I could think about when I was in junior high and high school was martial arts. Had to see every martial arts movie and had to read as much as I could back then. Enrolled in all sorts of classes and studied Karate at a local place in Livermore, California called Moore's Karate on Main Street. Also studied at another local place called Boma (Basic Oriental Martial Arts) and a private home group where I studied Kung Fu for a summer term. In college I kept busy with a basic Martial Arts class but that was the last of it. Got married in 1990 and really the last time I did anything martial arts other than watch movies <grin> was around 1988 when I graduated local junior college. So, I am now older and fatter with high cholesterol and it is time to get healthy again (hehehe). So, I have been getting excited reading the forums here and figuring out how I will start again.
Thinking about buying some DVDs and then maybe save some $$ and join a local class for making new friends and learning hands-on. Until then, I am looking at either getting the Jerry Poteet Jeet Kun Do DVDs or maybe the Stephen K Hayes ToShinDo DVDs. Start practicing at home with the basics just to start losing some weight, working out, sweating, strecthing, and maybe I can do the splits again one day. hehehe
Anyway, excited to join the list. I actually kept my first Martial Arts uniform and some books I purchased back in the 70s. I was so much smaller and thinner then. Size 4 is what it says. Skin tight on me now. I guess I kept it for the memories. Black pants and white top and mat shoes. I forget but I may have gotten to Orange or Blue belt. I am old and memory has faded. Either way, with health at issue, it is time to get more healthy naturally and what better way to do the martial arts again.
Nice to meet you all.
tj in northern california
I am 41 and have decided to get back into the martial arts after all these years. All I could think about when I was in junior high and high school was martial arts. Had to see every martial arts movie and had to read as much as I could back then. Enrolled in all sorts of classes and studied Karate at a local place in Livermore, California called Moore's Karate on Main Street. Also studied at another local place called Boma (Basic Oriental Martial Arts) and a private home group where I studied Kung Fu for a summer term. In college I kept busy with a basic Martial Arts class but that was the last of it. Got married in 1990 and really the last time I did anything martial arts other than watch movies <grin> was around 1988 when I graduated local junior college. So, I am now older and fatter with high cholesterol and it is time to get healthy again (hehehe). So, I have been getting excited reading the forums here and figuring out how I will start again.
Thinking about buying some DVDs and then maybe save some $$ and join a local class for making new friends and learning hands-on. Until then, I am looking at either getting the Jerry Poteet Jeet Kun Do DVDs or maybe the Stephen K Hayes ToShinDo DVDs. Start practicing at home with the basics just to start losing some weight, working out, sweating, strecthing, and maybe I can do the splits again one day. hehehe
Anyway, excited to join the list. I actually kept my first Martial Arts uniform and some books I purchased back in the 70s. I was so much smaller and thinner then. Size 4 is what it says. Skin tight on me now. I guess I kept it for the memories. Black pants and white top and mat shoes. I forget but I may have gotten to Orange or Blue belt. I am old and memory has faded. Either way, with health at issue, it is time to get more healthy naturally and what better way to do the martial arts again.
Nice to meet you all.
tj in northern california
