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01-24-2001, 03:15 PM
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Location: Stewarton (near Kilmarnock) Scotland
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What age did you start aikido?
-David
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I wanna Practice!
David
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01-24-2001, 03:36 PM
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Dojo: My own! soon!
Location: Montréal (Québec) Canada
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I was 19... How about you?
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When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven
-Golas
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01-24-2001, 03:55 PM
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Location: Stewarton (near Kilmarnock) Scotland
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I was 14, the age I am now.
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I wanna Practice!
David
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01-24-2001, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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13, 14 now...
Nick
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01-25-2001, 02:22 AM
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Dojo: Vestfyn Aikikai Denmark
Location: Vissenbjerg
Join Date: Jul 2000
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At 24. Again at 26 and then again at 30 (my present age)
(first MA-experience at 15 - Shotokan Karate)
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- Jørgen Jakob Friis
Inspiration - Aspiration - Perspiration
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01-31-2001, 08:38 AM
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Dojo: Ki-Shin-Kai
Location: Bristol, UK
Join Date: Jan 2001
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I was 26
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2 secrets to life: 1-Never tell anyone everything.
Frugal
(frugal@fysh.org)
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01-31-2001, 08:55 AM
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Dojo: Integral Dojo
Join Date: Aug 2000
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I started at 25.
Dana
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01-31-2001, 08:57 AM
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Dojo: University of Ulster, Coleriane
Location: Northern Ireland
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I was 16.
Average (mean) age so far is 18.7 years (witha standard deviation of 5.35).
I really must stop using aikiweb and do some work.
Ian
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01-31-2001, 11:40 AM
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Dojo: Aikikai de l'Université Laval
Location: Sainte-Catherine-de-la-J.-C., Québec
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I was 23
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Jonathan Olson
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01-31-2001, 12:06 PM
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Dojo: N/A
Join Date: Dec 2000
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At 21 years. I wish I had started younger.
Matt
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"It is better to die on your feet
than to live a lifetime on your knees"
Emiliano Zapata
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01-31-2001, 12:39 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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trust me, you always wish you started younger...
Nick
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01-31-2001, 01:28 PM
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Dojo: Aikido West
Location: SF Bay Area, California
Join Date: Dec 2000
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I was 17 when I started.
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01-31-2001, 02:04 PM
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Dojo: Muhu Dojo
Location: Middle of nowhere in California 14 miles from Buellton
Join Date: Jun 2000
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7th grade I was 13 now am 16
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Dallas Adolphsen
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01-31-2001, 08:32 PM
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Dojo: Seiryukan Dojo/Illini Aikido
Location: Champaign, IL, USA
Join Date: Nov 2000
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one week shy of 16 years old.
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Brian
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http://www.shinjinkai.org/
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01-31-2001, 08:34 PM
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Dojo: http://ctr.usf.edu/aikido/
Location: Tampa, Fl
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Unfortunately, I was 30. I honestly believe I would have started at 20 if I had known that it even existed. When I did learn OF it, I was 25 and had too much on my plate already. I eventually got back to it. Better late than never, I guess.
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C. Martin
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01-31-2001, 09:04 PM
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Location: Bay Area
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01-31-2001, 09:37 PM
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Dojo: Shobu Aikido of Vermont
Location: New Hampshire
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I started at 16, but then I developed the bad habit of moving to places where there was no Aikido. Now I'm 31, and I'm happy to say that I have an excellent dojo near where I've settled permanently. Better later than never.
-Speireag.
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Speireag Alden
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02-01-2001, 01:33 AM
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Dojo: Aikidostichting "Musubi" De Bollenstreek
Location: Sassenheim, The Netherlands
Join Date: Dec 2000
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I was 28 (30 years and 2 days now)
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Aarjan
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02-01-2001, 02:03 AM
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Dojo: Vestfyn Aikikai Denmark
Location: Vissenbjerg
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Quote:
aarjan wrote:
I was 28 (30 years and 2 days now)
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Happy birthday Aarjan Just turned 30 myself last june.
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- Jørgen Jakob Friis
Inspiration - Aspiration - Perspiration
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02-01-2001, 03:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Quote:
JJF wrote:
Quote:
aarjan wrote:
I was 28 (30 years and 2 days now)
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Happy birthday Aarjan Just turned 30 myself last june.
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For a moment there I thought Aarjan is 58.
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02-01-2001, 03:38 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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I started as a sperm utilising ,irimingage to enter the egg.
That probably was not very funny... sorry.
Matt Banks
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''Zanshin be aware hold fast your centre''
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02-01-2001, 05:00 PM
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Dojo: S&G BJJ
Location: Springboro, OH
Join Date: Jul 2000
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Quote:
David wrote:
What age did you start aikido?
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32. 38 now. Lost 9 months when I went to grad school.
We have one very promising student who started at 41.
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Greg Jennings
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02-02-2001, 02:07 AM
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Dojo: Lunds Aikidoklubb
Location: Lund, Sweden
Join Date: Dec 2000
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I was 20, but had trained Ju jutsu before that on and of for som years.
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Jakob Blomquist
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02-02-2001, 09:22 AM
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Dojo: SEIDOKAN
Location: Los Angeles
Join Date: Nov 2000
Posts: 59
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Quote:
Matt Banks wrote:
I started as a sperm utilising ,irimingage to enter the egg.
That probably was not very funny... sorry.
Matt Banks
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No, It was!
LOL!
-Tomu
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-When two blades cross points,
There's no need to withdraw.
The master swordsman
Is like the lotus blooming in the fire.
Such a person has inside of them
A heaven soaring spirit.
- Tozan Ryokan
4th verse on the 5 ranks
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02-02-2001, 09:57 AM
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Location: San Jose
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I started when I was 32, about a month after I quit smoking. I had gained a ton of weight, and had gotten very aggressive, and needed a way to vent some of that funky energy.
I'm 43 now, and the body, I swear, is in worse shape now than it was when I started, but I think I'm paying a special pennance for a dissolute youth, rather than suffering from any glorious Aikido injuries.
I felt like the old guy when I started, and I aint feeling any younger. Unfortunately, most if not all of my sempai and my teacher are older than me, and most are in pretty good shape, so my excuses have to be other than age related.
I wish I'd started Aikido at a younger age, or at least been better to my body when I was young. Wasn't it Mark Twain who said " If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself"? Or was that WC Fields?
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