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I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.

I did karate for years and years and years.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.