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I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

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

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

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

I did karate for years and years and years.

When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up, and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.