WTF was the point of that weird as quote. Yeah, I started when I was 5. Like most people in America in the 80's before the UFC, I took Tae Kwon Do when I was 5. I did Tae Kwon Do for awhile when I was young actually, Got my black belt after 6 years for a Korean World Champion fresh out of korea.
If you don't know koreans and Tae Kwon Do, it isn't like the McDojo's you see ran by fat white guys here. He used to make 6 year olds do push up on our knuckles outside on the gravel if you were late. He'd smack you in the head with kick pads and even as kids, we used to spar 2 vs 1, and we would even spar with no head gear.
I won ever City and state championship and then competed in the Jr. Olympics and took 2nd in sparring.
It wasn't practical for street self defense IMO, but it was a fun sport and got me interested in to other martial arts which are such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai boxing ETC.
Yeah, I did it as a kid, but that doesn't mean I stopped as a kid. For the last 5 years I've trained, competed in...