[sg516]

i grew up wrestling. since i started at 4 i cant say i had a motivation other than my dad saying "hey, you're going to wrestle." that and i had two brothers that were both wrestlers and state champs and one of them went to nationals once or twice. so i guess it was obligatory that i follow suit.

but i used to watch all those chop socky kung fu theater movies on saturday afternoons as a kid and wanted to learn that stuff. then i went to college and they had an aikido school there so i joined just for somethign to help me blow off steam from classes. and then i took a judo class as a PE elective and loved it so i signed up at a school and was doing it along with aikido. it was a lot like wrestling in canvas pajamas. but the school closed down.

then one day i found a shaolin school and it was awesome. so basically it was me jsut stumbling from one activity to another just looking for a hobby to pursue that keeps me active.

the school i am in now does full contact sparring and thats a lot of fun and the more i do it the more motivated i become to do it. and jiu jitsu is the toughest workout i can think of. plus its similar to wrestling except they let you do all the stuff you wished you could do in a wrestling match (choke people, lock hands, etc) so i like it for that. but if i had it to do over again i think i would have found a judo school. i just like throwing ppl.