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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruavel" data-source="post: 377478" data-attributes="member: 5704">does "formerly studied" count...?I studied a few different things so far, but doubt I'll ever get back to any of them given how much of my time fencing takes up these days...I started with a few years of Tae Kwon Do at age 11... since then I spent tried a few others (without a great deal of enthusiasm) including 'small-circle' ju jutsu...most recently I trained in a traditional japanese school (not in japan though)... the school was zen dojo that taught aiki jutsu and ken jutsu, but we also studied a number 'related' skills & weapons (bo, jo, tanto, yari)... my sensei also taught iai jutsu (although very rarely and he was very selective about his students and the weapons they trained with)... it was a great school that taught me alot more than just how to 'protect myself'...I would recommend to everyone that's every want to practice an art that they train in a school where the physical skills and techniques are not the focus of the training, but are a vehicle for learning something beyond that...hope that made sense to people...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>