How old were you when you first started Martial Arts?

[Ray]

28 and it seems like such a long time ago.

 

[dmdfromhamilton]

I started dahn moo do at 13 and american kenpo at 14 and i just found out the other day my dojang is offering a nunchuck course for free for all interested students so i just started that at 14 too

 

[scfgabe]

I am 28 years old, and I just started my study of American Kenpo. Better late than never, I suppose!

 

[dubljay]

I first began martial arts in the third grade. It was some genaric form of "karate". Then I spent some time in a school that taught an off shoot of kenpo and TKD (if i remember correctly). I did not pick up MA again until I started college.

 

[Gray Phoenix]

I started when I was 27. I wanted to start when I was very young but my mother wouldnt allow it. Once I was old enough to make my own decision, I couldnt afford it. Now I wont give it up.

 

[Blindside]

Which time?

12, 19, or 24? 24 seems to have stuck.

Lamont

 

[Knifehand]

I was 8 years when i first started generic Karate. I was (and still am) 19 when i started Tang Soo Do. I proceeding along quite nicely...

 

[Kirsty x]

I was 15 when I started kupso , and 17 when I started ninjutsu. :ultracool

 

[DuneViking]

about 14-15, getting senile now so you know . . .
There you are.

 

[bart]

5 for privates lessons, 8 for classes.

 

[phlaw]

1984, I was 10 years old and it was the day after I saw The Karate Kid!

 

[masherdong]

I think it was in 1983 when I was in 4th or 5th grade and I took Shotokan Karate at the YMCA. I got to Yellow Belt and then quit because my parents thought it was too expensive. :idunno:

 

[asangria]

I started at about 28-29. I finally had some free time from working & going to school. Better late than never but if I had to do it all over I would have started much sooner.

 

[Dronak]

It looks like I haven't posted here, but I did vote on the poll already. Let's see, I would have been about 28 when I started. About the poll results, there are fewer people who began later in life, which I think is to be expected. Roughly 50% started by age 15, but about 32% started between 16 and 29. That's a pretty good fraction that didn't begin as children or young teens. I thought that was kind of interesting.

 

[ginshun]

My first formal MA training began less than a year ago, I was 29 and still am.

 

[Sam]

I started a month before my 16th birthday.
That was 7 months ago.

I wish I had started earlier!!

I do kenpo at a tracy's karate near my house...

 

[altondragon]

I began this journey long ago and far away when i recall having cartiledge! LOL
ok i was 15 studied uechi ryu for 4 yrs.....stopped, fell in love, got married, had kids and it wasnt until i enrolled by son 7 yrs ago in a class when i said wow i really miss this part of me..and yet it took 2 yrs watching him to actually join...been studying kempo since 2000...guess i was waiting to see if we all would die from the Y2k...we survived and i wish now i had never stopped studying..yet my journey would not have found me to be where i am..so thankful for my blessings and my dojo family. Now 41 and loving it all. DId i ramble?


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[47MartialMan]

I was 10 and was "forced" into it

 

[kishoto]

I was 12 years old when i started training. I am 50 years old now 38 years what a trip it has been.(and not done yet). kishoto

 

[TheEdge883]

I was 10 and was "forced" into it

I hope you don't feel forced anymore.

I started martial arts when I was 16 years old. 11 years later, I love it even more.