52-Year-Old YouTuber Learns Karate by Studying Tekken to Train With His Son

A 52-year-old Japanese YouTuber is learning karate by studying characters’ moves from Tekken 3 after his son inspired him to pursue a journey in martial arts.

AskJapan is a fairly popular YouTuber with more than 189,000 subscribers. He’s best known for his vlog-style videos where he chats with viewers and plays retro video games on old-school consoles, often while dressing up in low-budget cosplay of characters from the games he’s playing.

He’s been on a fighting game stint lately, taking on the likes of Street Fighter II and Tekken 3, the latter of which he’s using to help himself learn real-life martial arts moves. He explained this newfound interest in a November 3 video, saying one of his son’s recent karate demonstrations made him inspired to try it out for himself.

AskJapan says that his son is a brown belt, a rank that’s right beneath the black belt (the top level that signifies total mastery of the art). …