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Spanky,
I earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do when I was around 13 or 14, and I got burned out (and discovered girls and a motorcycle). In college I studied Jujitsu for a semester, Aikido for a semester (same semester), and had about 2 months of Iaido. I was too busy to attend more than one session per week and had to move soon anyway so I had to drop out. My life is more stable now, with more free time to commit to such things.
Since college I've thought about returning to TKD or starting another MA because it was a lot of fun, decent exercise, relaxing, challenging, and nice to know it had some potential practical benefit in self-defense situations. For all of those reasons I want to study a MA once again. The only preference besides those factors is an increased awareness of the practical, self-defense component - I want to learn something that can realistically work if I ever had to defend myself. I honestly don't think what I learned in TKD would do me much good against an aggressive, sober, and armed attacker. I have similar reservations towards Aikido.
Does this information help?
-David Hume
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