I realized I needed an exercise activity AND a going out among people activity and both should filter against phonies and I was living in Echo Park in LA at the time, and I checked this one place maybe down Alvarado? but it wasn’t too promising, and then I was walking down Sunset and there was a storefront dojo and it had information posted in the window I squinted at and the sensei came out and sold me on a week of lessons free and he turned out to be charismatic and excellent at teaching and motivating and the first day he worked me so hard I had to go out and vomit in the gutter so I kept going