Judd reid karate

Judd Reid is one of an elite few karate masters who have successfully conquered the rarely-staged man kumite. It is widely considered the ultimate martial arts test, where a challenger engages in a hundred consecutive two-minute fights against black-belt opponents. Through his martial arts journey from being a skinny Melbourne kid all the way to becoming a world champion who conquered the man kumite, Reid has made it his personal mission to motivate people to pick up martial arts, and inspire a similar sense of determination and self-confidence.

On that sunny afternoon, he took a quick recess from conducting a karate seminar for this exclusive interview with onefc. Reid breathes deeply. I drew from my persevering, never-give-up spirit.

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I believe, and I feel, what got me across the line was drawing on those experiences. Those experiences began in Melbourne, Australia. Reid was a skinny boy who played soccer and often engaged in schoolyard fights with bigger kids. By his own admission, he had a lot of fire in him, was always getting in trouble, and lacked self-confidence.

However, when the self-proclaimed Bruce Lee fanatic started practicing karate when he was 12 years of age, and found the training yielding immediate results.