How old were you when you first started Martial Arts?

[bobquinn]

I like this poll, please keep it going, I think it would be great to see some data.

Bob Quinn

 

[stickarts]

I tried Judo briefly when I was around 10 years old but then did group sports before being introduced to Karate at around 18 years old.

 

[JBrainard]

Hmmm… you know I can’t actually remember that far back anymore but I do believe Dinosaurs were still around

You can't defeat my T-Rex style! :mst:

 

[Rob Nelson]

Robyn....Im Rob, I have questions can you help?

 

[Hawke]

I started at 10 with TKD.

Since then I have moved to other arts. I'm still actively training in the martial arts.

 

[cbjr5]

I started this year at the age of 42. I always wanted to do Martial Arts, but finacially it was not possible for my parents. As an adult, I was married young and started a family early. If I look back, I'm sure there were probably times during my adult life I could of started. All the same though, I finally started and I'm doing Taekwondo.

 

[bootcampbj]

I love how you are almost never too young and never to old. One man I trained with started Aikido when he was 70 and went on to achive his blackbelt at 77.


For myself, my mother bought me my first judo gi when I was six. That was pretty exciting.

- BJ

 

[Guardian]

Hi Everyone!

I've always wondered how old people were when they started Martial Arts. I know that there is a large age range on this site.
So, this is the question: How old were you when you first started Martial Arts?

I'm mainly looking for how old you were when you first started seriously doing it. Example---If you did Karate when you were 5 years old but then quit for 10 years and started doing it again when you were 15 and never quit....then you'd vote 15 years.

I hope this all makes sense. Have fun!

Robyn

I was 19 when I entered the Military and began my quest and I'm 47 now and still on my quest. Maybe by 67, I will be 3/4s of the way there, that will suffice for me.

 

[Perpetual White Belt]

I started at 13 and am now 31 (or rather I will be in a few weeks) and I hope to die in the middle of teaching a class at a very old age.

 

[LanJie]

25 years old

 

[Hyper_Shadow]

I started in Judo when I was in my first year of secondary school.

 

[celtic_crippler]

I started out at White Brothers Martial Arts when I was around 10 or 11.

I used to watch "Kung-Fu Theatre" on Saturday mornings and was hooked from day 1. LOL

 

[shihansmurf]

I was 9.

Althought to be fair I was mimicking Chuck Norris moves way before then

Mark

 

[kwaichang]

Well they hadn't invented calendars or time pieces when I started, so I'm lost on this one.:shock:

 

[Shadow Of Life]

when i was little was just my mum, my sister and me and I had to be dare I say it the man of the house, My mum put me in Judo when I was 7 she now says it was to teach me respect, sadley I was suspended from a tornament when I was 16 and that was the end of my Judo.

 

[mfuent1]

Tae Kwon Do at age 28, then Hsing-I at 32 and Yang T'ai Chi at 34.

 

[Imua Kuntao]

I was 13 years old and took 25.00 in silver half dollars and silver dollars to Dick Raney's Kempo karate here in San Antonio,TX. It was my birthday and I had been wanting to get into a school for over a year. I have been in the martial arts now over 38 years.

 

[Kwanjang]

I began my journey in 1980. I was 15.

 

[Chitmunk]

my parents started me off in a TKD Kenpo hybrid that was taught in our town when I was 6 after I was beat up by a bunch of high schoolers for no aparent reason. Then when I was 10 I had to stop because we no longer had the money to continue my training, but I kept practicing and got back into classes when I was 12. from that point I have tried to keep the martial arts as a part of my life as much as possible getting whatever training I could when I could, even if it was just a free lesson in an art I had not taken before. I am now 25 so I have been at it for quite some time.

 

[astrobiologist]

Started in Tang Soo Do at 5. Trained for ~9 years. During high school and the beginning of college I trained on my own and read a lot about martial arts history. During college, joined a fight club, learned about Aikido and Kenjutsu, started training in Jujutsu. Shortly after, began teaching and training in my father's school. Have been seriously studying and training since. I hope someday to be the best practitioner I can possibly be...