Have YOU ever taken a self-defense/martial arts class?

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When I was somewhere between 9 and 12,I took a Sho To Kan class and made it to yellow belt.

I recently enrolled in a women's self-defense class.


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Years ago my employer brought in a security team to teach us all self defense. Later on, I had it again at the same company in a different office. They always pick me for the victim because I'm off in my own head, but then they find out that I actually can punch their lights out because I grew up with five brothers.

yeah, but school got in the way.

Yes. I took a self defence course in school and twice tried to get into martial arts. (and gave up twice too many people telling me what to do)

We had to do karate in high school and it was so lame!

I did Tae kwon Dao for about four years, but quit because i found it boring and repetitive, now i want to start doing martial arts, talk about irony.

I went to Bush Judo classes for a while, in the village hall, but I quit after getting a green belt. We also did Kickboxing classes in high school.

I haven't really taken much of it in, I improvise in hand to hand combat. Oooh, and I a good jump attack(running at and jumping into combat, it would likely surprise a person if I did that)

Overall, I do what suits me best.

I would like to take Wendo.

Usually I don't have the occasion to need self defense. A few times something has happened to me, I fought back but then the attacker was not much bigger than me. I don't go out much alone and I usually just try to avoid letting people get too close to me. Most people around here are getting attacked or robbed during the day anyway, not just at night. Someone could hide and jump out at me. I would like to be prepared. I don't think it is a good idea to go out looking for a fight.

I took a "karate" class my freshman year in college, there were girls in it.

I'm into martial arts, and I enjoy it as it's a great stress reliever. It's a form of combat where I wear armor and hit people with rattan weapons or foam-tipped arrows.

I studied TaeKwonDo, Judo and Hapkido for 6 years. I have a black belt in TaeKwonDo, but only orange belt in Judo and Hapkido because I never went to all the tests for those. I wasn't as good in Judo anyway. Too much physical contact. For a year I taught beginning TaeKwonDo & Judo to the 2, 3 & 4 year olds class.

I also briefly studied Tang Soo Do maybe for a month but didn't think the teacher liked me so I quit. I studied Taoist Tai Chi for a year also.

I have a great interest in Shaolin, especially staff work.

i did a random style of kempo for about 10 yrs... gradeschool-highschool. got a blackbelt

have done aikido (and not the sissy kind)/hakusturu for bout 5 yrs. got my blackbelt in aikido.

have also done a lot of grappling... so even if you manage to knock me to the ground, you aint outta the woods yet

would love to start teaching some time when i'm not so overworked.

No, I haven't but I want to take boxing self defense instead

Yeah, I took Tae Kwon Do when I was younger, but because of it, I ended up getting in trouble more for trying to teach the bullies a lesson. Like it was my fault to begin with! And no, the bullies never got in trouble, even though they always started it, need it be physical or mental.

I used to do Shotokan Karate and really enjoyed it, I got up to 5th Kyu but then ended up damaging my knee and never went back to it