Hi guys,
Randomly found the site when pottering around on the interwebz looking at various martial arts bits and pieces. Had a bit of a read and it looks like there's a load of info on here so I thought I should sign up and say hi
Names Dave, I'm 29 from South East UK. I train in Shotokan Karate and Aikido. I am currently 1st kyu in Karate training for black and have been practicing Aikido for just a few months now.
The short story of my experience is I used to train Shotokan when I was very young. In fact by the time I was 12 I was 1st kyu training for a junior black belt. Unfortunately due to being an immature kid (getting bored of it) and an injury at a tournament where I hurt my back I gave it up. I've always been very interested in martial arts and always intended to start again but it wasn't until Last November a leaflet hit the mat advertising Shotokan Karate classes at my local school gym. In all honesty I was thinking of trying another martial art but I thought I would give it a go again hoping there was still some knowledge in my mind knocking about.
I turn up in my trackies and get pointed down the end with the low grades. We warm up and start doing some basic techniques; straight afterwards sensei tells me to move up to the higher end. Sensei said to me its obvious I still remember the techniques so he'll evaluate what level I'm at and we'll go from there. After a around 3-4 weeks I order my gi and sensei awards me 4th kyu
3 weeks later I grade (normally 3 months at least between gradings) and am awarded 3rd kyu!
I was complimented on my technique; the comment my sensei made was 'i was one of 2 of the group singled out as being good' still got it!!
I have since graded every 3 months including my 1st kyu grading which I was told normally they'd recommend a 6 month wait between that grading.
I'm REALLY enjoying doing it again and really immersing myself into the art. I was invited to this years tournament in March but I didnt feel ready then, next year I think I'll take part in Kata and Kumite.
In the middle of all this one of my friends mentioned he was interested in taking up a martial art but didnt want to do karate. in his town there was an aikido class and being another Japanese art I thought it would be a good contrast for me and also help in my bunkai so I thought why not..
At this stage we are just polishing up all the main 1st form techniques and will probably taking taking our 1st grading soon. (hopefully)
Apart from that I do like to keep fit but am quite lazy (which doing martial arts again has really helped with) but I do try and get down the gym a couple of times a week along with my training so that does me pretty well.
I have a real interest in all other martial arts and perhaps in a year or so once I have my black belt I may look into sampling another but for the moment I really need to focus on my Karate training with Aikido as a sideline.
So err yeh.. that's me really as far as my interest in martial arts goes. Hope to soak up some of the info on here
Randomly found the site when pottering around on the interwebz looking at various martial arts bits and pieces. Had a bit of a read and it looks like there's a load of info on here so I thought I should sign up and say hi
Names Dave, I'm 29 from South East UK. I train in Shotokan Karate and Aikido. I am currently 1st kyu in Karate training for black and have been practicing Aikido for just a few months now.
The short story of my experience is I used to train Shotokan when I was very young. In fact by the time I was 12 I was 1st kyu training for a junior black belt. Unfortunately due to being an immature kid (getting bored of it) and an injury at a tournament where I hurt my back I gave it up. I've always been very interested in martial arts and always intended to start again but it wasn't until Last November a leaflet hit the mat advertising Shotokan Karate classes at my local school gym. In all honesty I was thinking of trying another martial art but I thought I would give it a go again hoping there was still some knowledge in my mind knocking about.
I turn up in my trackies and get pointed down the end with the low grades. We warm up and start doing some basic techniques; straight afterwards sensei tells me to move up to the higher end. Sensei said to me its obvious I still remember the techniques so he'll evaluate what level I'm at and we'll go from there. After a around 3-4 weeks I order my gi and sensei awards me 4th kyu
3 weeks later I grade (normally 3 months at least between gradings) and am awarded 3rd kyu!
I was complimented on my technique; the comment my sensei made was 'i was one of 2 of the group singled out as being good'
still got it!!I have since graded every 3 months including my 1st kyu grading which I was told normally they'd recommend a 6 month wait between that grading.
I'm REALLY enjoying doing it again and really immersing myself into the art. I was invited to this years tournament in March but I didnt feel ready then, next year I think I'll take part in Kata and Kumite.
In the middle of all this one of my friends mentioned he was interested in taking up a martial art but didnt want to do karate. in his town there was an aikido class and being another Japanese art I thought it would be a good contrast for me and also help in my bunkai so I thought why not..
At this stage we are just polishing up all the main 1st form techniques and will probably taking taking our 1st grading soon. (hopefully)
Apart from that I do like to keep fit but am quite lazy (which doing martial arts again has really helped with) but I do try and get down the gym a couple of times a week along with my training so that does me pretty well.
I have a real interest in all other martial arts and perhaps in a year or so once I have my black belt I may look into sampling another but for the moment I really need to focus on my Karate training with Aikido as a sideline.
So err yeh.. that's me really as far as my interest in martial arts goes. Hope to soak up some of the info on here
