Afternoon all, I figured it was about time I at least introduced myself after lurking for a week or so.

I'm a 37 year old bloke and I live with my wife in Leeds, though I'll be moving to Manchester in the summer, and I have a 16 year old daughter who splits her time between here and her mother in North Staffordshire.

I think, from perusing the other intros on the site, that I'm the newbie round here because most of my MA experience was in my teens and early twenties, where I flirted with Lau Gar and Muay Thai. In connection with another thread I have also Fenced for a while in my late twenties but I dropped out of pretty much all exercise after developing thyroid cancer in my early thirties. Though I did do some ill advised Aikido training in between my two bouts of the cancer.

Since getting well I let my fitness plummet and my weight shoot up until I finally got bored with getting out of breath running up the stairs! I've sorted my awful diet out and I'm looking for a martial art that will help me to get fit again as well as giving me a physical challenge in the long run... :dry:

So that's me right now, anybody got any MA recommendations, whether general or specific, for an unfit, hairy bloke who's interested more in exercise and self-defence than kata and spirituality*? Cheers for reading!


*I've no problem with either, they're just not what I'm looking for right now...