I have trained carate in my youth (I was 8-12 years old, one of the youngest brownbelt carrier back then) and even if I wanted to do the blackbelt grading (my coach said I was ready), I wasn't allowed to, as I wasn't 14 years old (don't ask me why, they told me this and I had to accept).
So I decided to quit and I almost
became a professional football (soccer) player...
But, what left from these early years of training is really an astonishing body coordination, which helps me a lot thru my life...
malletzky