I had my first Karate lesson last night. I thought it would be a good place to start in terms of combat sports because there are classes everywhere around where I live. It was fun for a start, and it certainly showed me what my strong and weak points are (my legs are complete noobs when it comes to coordination and balance).

I have seen many people post about the fact that they've done some sort of combat sport at one time or another but I haven't actually seen a Fanpost made about it since I started checking this section quite a while ago. My apologies if I missed it but I thought it would be cool to talk about what history everyone has in combat sports, whether they have just started like I have, if they have a long history of competing or whether they had to give it up due to injury.

Oh, and respect to OJR and his interview with Jay. I was thinking about doing this thread last night and reading the interview with Jay reminded me that I wanted to do this.