[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

You a baaaaaaad girl.

Sometimes, I wish I had continued training. My (eldest) daughter and I trained together when she was in jr/high school.

Who knows, perhaps I'll revisit my dojo again. Those were some good times...

You should go back to it, Tony. It's so much fun, and a really good way to stay in shape.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

I wouldn't have guessed that either.

How would you have already gotten a black belt?

Because most kickboxing dojos don't have stripe rankings. After you have earned a brown belt, the next rank is black. I have a private instructor and in his dojo, he uses a stripe ranking. There are other dojos that use a similar ranking system.

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

People become surprised when they ask me what I do for a living because it's a rare, specialized field.

But I'd say one other talent outside of my career and my ability to draw/design was as a kid, I was able to dance like Michael Jackson. I remember as a kid, I would watch him and practice every day for over a year until I finally got it. I was in a talent show in high school, and college. I performed his Billie Jean act that he did for Motown's 25th anniversary.

In the high school talent show I was in, there was one guy and his band who did "Guns & Roses Welcome to the Jungle". They actually played their own instruments, and actually did the singing. They sounded just like the real group, but they got second place.

I won both talent shows in high school and college with that same routine LOL. I had it perfected, from the hat, to the stroking of the hair, to his spins, all the way to his moonwalk, and the lip syncing. I also did the same act when I was 13 at the MLK center near where I grew up. I can do it to this day. I still have it in me LOL.
http://youtu.be/kXhy7ZsiR50

As soon as I saw your username, I knew exactly what you posted.