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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
25. What is your involvement/past with martial arts?
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My freshman year of high school I started wrestling and I liked it, but wasn't very good. It was frustrating to me that you coudn't hit your opponent, since striking before trying to take-down just seemed to make more sense. Anyway, I'd taken Tae Kwon Do for a little while when I was a lot younger, and decided to give it another try. The only thing was all the Tae Kwon Do schools sucked, so this time I tried Okinawan Karate (Isshin-ryu). While doing the Karate, I met some guys that trained in Jujutsu, and I after watching about 10 mins of it, I knew I'd found my thing.
I spent about 5-6 years training in the martial arts, did a very little bit of competitive fighting, and then eventually gave it up when the main dojo I trained at moved even further from my house. I was already driving an hour each way, 3 times a week to train, and trying to do that on top of college and work just got to be more than I could handle.
I do miss it and wish I'd never quit. I was definitely in the best shape of my life back then. To this day the only tattoo I have is the logo from my old YamaBushi Jujutsu school.