Jaime King Quotes

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

I love to do kung fu - it gives me energy.

I use Kung Fu. That really helps my flexibility and coordination.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.

I am partial to a cartwheel or two. It's the way to go; I'll be doing them in my 50s, hopefully.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.