[DeplorablePaul]

Yes. All those things. In retrospect it was a fun childhood. The only thing I regret is that I never took up karate or became a black belt. That would have helped out.

[ansel12]

For the early boomers and the WWII generation the martial art was “Judo”, I don’t remember when Karate became widely known.

[Big Red Badger]

A Black Belt...
Hammer Time.
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I had a Right Cross...
Always fighting.

[Myrddin]

Yes. All those things. In retrospect it was a fun childhood. The only thing I regret is that I never took up karate or became a black belt. That would have helped out.

I had to wait until the Summer after graduating from high school to engage a judo class at Southwestern College. I had a blast and worked my way up to the highest brown belt before testing for black belt. Trained all week long and competed in tournaments on weekends. Fun stuff at age 17. I had to stop when I started at UCSD in Jan 1974. 18 units at UCSD and 40 miles from my dojo at Southwestern.