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12-23-2009, 05:02 AM
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Dojo: Phil. Aikikai/Santiago Aikido Club
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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I'm 28 and have no prior martial arts experience. After doing some research, I found Aikido the most attractive MA because it appears to be challenging and promotes a general philosophy I agree with. Now I'm just wondering how older beginners generally fare in class. Do you have to start when your five years old to develop the "right stuff" for MA?
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I started Judo at the age of 6 and various martial arts b`coz im a Filipino I also need to learn our native martial arts i.g. knife fighting & Kali and started Aikido when I was 12 till to day Im 26 still practice the art and established my Dojo 4 yrs. ago.
speaking of (MA) Mastering the art It depends on how sincere an individual is in its degree of learning. IMHO there is a long way to go in Mastering the martial Art Aikido. and lots of way in Mastering it.
(e.g. youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTIre...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH309YwzxsY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Jjciss6jA
Last edited by Melchizedek : 12-23-2009 at 05:15 AM.
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12-23-2009, 05:22 AM
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#102
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Dojo: Phil. Aikikai/Santiago Aikido Club
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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02-19-2010, 03:12 PM
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#103
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Dojo: Vernon, NJ
Join Date: Jan 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
I started last year at age 48. I must be one of the older ones.
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02-19-2010, 06:56 PM
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#104
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Dojo: Aikido School of Self Defense/Monticello NY
Location: Lower New York State
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: How old were you when you began...
started at age 28, 11 years later it was one of the best decisions I ever made, has saved my life (and that of others) numerous times both physically and mentally
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02-19-2010, 08:47 PM
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#105
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Location: Spring Valley, CA.
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 32
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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I'm 28 and have no prior martial arts experience. After doing some research, I found Aikido the most attractive MA because it appears to be challenging and promotes a general philosophy I agree with. Now I'm just wondering how older beginners generally fare in class. Do you have to start when your five years old to develop the "right stuff" for MA?
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Not at all! 28 is still a ripe young age to begin the journey. MANY have begun their studies at a much older age in the arts. Aikido is even more age forgiving as it is not based on strength or size. Once you learn how to take Ukemi, you are all set.
I started the martial arts when I was 20...
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02-20-2010, 12:40 PM
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#106
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Dojo: Saskatoon Aikikai
Location: Saskatoon
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Re: How old were you when you began...
I started Aikido when I was 6. I am 19 now, and I practiced Aikikai all this time with about a year of Yoshinkan in 2000-2001
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02-23-2010, 09:47 AM
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#107
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Dojo: Green Bay Aikikai
Location: Green Bay
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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I began when I was 7 and I am now 63 and have enjoyed every minute of aikido.
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Wow! That's impressive!
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02-23-2010, 02:18 PM
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#108
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Dojo: midwest aikido center
Location: chicago
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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Wow! That's impressive!
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and how old were Y0U when you started?
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practice hard
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02-23-2010, 03:17 PM
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#109
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Dojo: Green Bay Aikikai
Location: Green Bay
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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and how old were Y0U when you started?
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18 or 19. Young and full of hopes thank you for asking! how about you?
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02-23-2010, 03:21 PM
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#110
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Dojo: midwest aikido center
Location: chicago
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: How old were you when you began...
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Mariya Cacheva wrote:
18 or 19. Young and full of hopes thank you for asking! how about you?
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27 :P of course
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practice hard
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02-23-2010, 03:59 PM
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#111
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Location: Calgary
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Just started at 41, and lovin' it
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03-12-2010, 02:56 AM
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#112
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Dojo: Tobu Chiku Aikikai
Location: Brussels
Join Date: Jan 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Started at 6, until I was 11, then I stopped...
Now I'm 26 and re-started again with a transparant belt
Got to get my white one back again.. forgot lots of the basics and techniques.
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03-29-2010, 10:12 AM
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#113
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Just started, age 45
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03-30-2010, 09:30 AM
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#114
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Dojo: Aikido Seishinkan, Fort Washington, PA
Location: Eastern Pennsylvania
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Started training at 40.
(About 9 years after this thread began!)
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03-31-2010, 05:04 AM
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#115
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Dojo: Aikido Rotterdam Tenchigowa
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Trained for about 6 months when I was 20 or 21. Started training again last year, aged 30...
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"Foster and polish the warrior spirit, while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light."
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03-31-2010, 02:59 PM
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#116
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Dojo: Nenagh and sadly no longer police college Templemore
Location: Nenagh
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Re: How old were you when you began...
I started when I was 17. I'm 37 this month. I love doing Aikido as much now as I did then.
It's just so much flip'n fun.
Brian
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05-11-2010, 03:08 PM
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#117
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Dojo: Tenchi Ryu
Location: Amsterdam
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Just started, 49.
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I'm only the piano player
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07-02-2011, 09:38 AM
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#118
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Dojo: New School Aikido, Stockton
Location: stockton,CA
Join Date: Jun 2011
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Started a couple of weeks ago....58
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07-02-2011, 11:17 AM
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#119
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Dojo: Aikikai of S.W. Conn. (formerly)
Location: Stamford Connecticut
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Good questions always appear again, like perennial flowers in the spring and summer! Nice to see the "new faces".....
sorry about the poetic similes and metaphors... I think I will ask my husband for a nice nikyo so I will stop daydreaming.
Oh yes, about 22, I had a couple of years of judo at college and the teacher's cousin who was teaching downtown where Linda, a friend of mine and I also attended taught about three months of Aikido before we graduated. In November, of that year found dojo in NY, stayed for about seven years, stayed in Japan for a year and a half after a three week tour, came home to CT and the local Y's new building were looking for new classes.... taught there for almost eight years.... then complications set in, job change, non training related knee injury, marriage etc. (Met my husband at the Y in 1980 )
Did a little practice since 1980's but not much. We're trying to get back into it now, at 67 (me) and 55 (him). This thread has a good subtopic -- when you started and when you restarted
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07-02-2011, 01:14 PM
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#120
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Re: How old were you when you began...
I started with almost 47, and it was just the right moment!
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07-04-2011, 04:57 AM
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#121
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Dojo: Aikido Netzwerk
Location: Düsseldorf, NRW
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Re: How old were you when you began...
I started when I was 15 and for me that was great - old enough not to be distracted by puberty (as I was probably already in the middle of it when I decided to start... ), still young enogh to enjoy the fun of youth training...
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03-14-2012, 10:52 PM
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#122
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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Re: How old were you when you began...
I began at 19, learnt for a year then stopped due to studies. Then I started learning 10 years later.
I've learnt for about one year now and am enjoying it
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03-14-2012, 11:16 PM
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#123
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Dojo: Aikido Institute Davis
Location: Davis CA
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Hi, I trained from age 5 to 9, then age 18 to present (27).
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03-15-2012, 04:47 PM
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#124
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Re: How old were you when you began...
Started at 19 and I'm about to turn 31. Over that time I've trained in 4 styles at 5 dojos in 2 countries. With that in mind, I should probably be better than I am.
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03-15-2012, 05:55 PM
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#125
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Location: CA
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Re: How old were you when you began...
20 years ago when I were only 26. One of these days I'll get it right.
3 teachers all of different lineage only adds to my confusion.
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