Runt
Well-Known Member
Do you like team sports, martial arts, running, weight lifting, swimming, or any other type of exercise? For many people, physical activity has been a deeply ingrained part of their lives and their being. Tell us a little about your sweaty, stinky, hardworking sports-self.
I'll start:
When I was a little kid I was very into ice-skating. My parents enrolled me in figure-skating classes at the age of five or six, and my older sister would take me out to frozen ponds sometimes during the winter to work with me on the ice. For a while it was my dream, my ambition, to do the figure-skating shows like my sister did at our school, but I was still too little and before I got old enough to try my hand at it my family moved to Arizona. There was no ice in Arizona, of course, so ice-skating was out of the question. My parents enrolled me in gymnastics instead, which I found incredibly enjoyable, and in those classes I got the basic foundations of balance and flexibility that would later help me both in dance and taekwondo. After a while, however, I stopped taking gymnastics, for reasons I cannot recall. However, YMCA soccer and basketball teams became my new passion. Throughout elementary school I played soccer, and later basketball. My memory of myself of a basketball player is of someone who could not run very far or very fast, could hardly dribble, and could not shoot hoops to save her life, but my dad insists that despite all that I was a good defense player. Nevertheless, when I turned about nine or ten years old I took a break from basketball and joined taekwondo, where I stayed for a year or so. I was just about to train for my green belt when my family moved again, and I went back to basketball for a few years. Then, when I was twelve years old, my mother asked me if I wanted to enroll in a new taekwondo academy or if I wanted to try something new, and I opted for something new. That something new turned out to be dance, and ended up being the longest committment of this nature I have made to this date. I danced for a grand total of eight years, among which were five years of ballet, four years of jazz, and two years of Irish dance. After I quit ballet (but was still doing Irish dance) I decided I wanted to start taking classes somewhere again, and while driving around near my house looking for a dance school, I instead found a taekwondo academy. I was immediatly reminded of all the fun I had in taekwondo as a kid, and decided to take it just for the summer to see if I wanted to do it again. I of course enjoyed it immensely, and am still there today, and about four months from receiving my black-belt.
So... how about you?
I'll start:
When I was a little kid I was very into ice-skating. My parents enrolled me in figure-skating classes at the age of five or six, and my older sister would take me out to frozen ponds sometimes during the winter to work with me on the ice. For a while it was my dream, my ambition, to do the figure-skating shows like my sister did at our school, but I was still too little and before I got old enough to try my hand at it my family moved to Arizona. There was no ice in Arizona, of course, so ice-skating was out of the question. My parents enrolled me in gymnastics instead, which I found incredibly enjoyable, and in those classes I got the basic foundations of balance and flexibility that would later help me both in dance and taekwondo. After a while, however, I stopped taking gymnastics, for reasons I cannot recall. However, YMCA soccer and basketball teams became my new passion. Throughout elementary school I played soccer, and later basketball. My memory of myself of a basketball player is of someone who could not run very far or very fast, could hardly dribble, and could not shoot hoops to save her life, but my dad insists that despite all that I was a good defense player. Nevertheless, when I turned about nine or ten years old I took a break from basketball and joined taekwondo, where I stayed for a year or so. I was just about to train for my green belt when my family moved again, and I went back to basketball for a few years. Then, when I was twelve years old, my mother asked me if I wanted to enroll in a new taekwondo academy or if I wanted to try something new, and I opted for something new. That something new turned out to be dance, and ended up being the longest committment of this nature I have made to this date. I danced for a grand total of eight years, among which were five years of ballet, four years of jazz, and two years of Irish dance. After I quit ballet (but was still doing Irish dance) I decided I wanted to start taking classes somewhere again, and while driving around near my house looking for a dance school, I instead found a taekwondo academy. I was immediatly reminded of all the fun I had in taekwondo as a kid, and decided to take it just for the summer to see if I wanted to do it again. I of course enjoyed it immensely, and am still there today, and about four months from receiving my black-belt.
So... how about you?
