As did I to the point of reading Stephen Hayes books on the subject, the history of Hattori Hanzo, and learning the martial arts techniques. I was a horrible child in retrospect I could take a long rope tied to a weight and use it to climb onto a branch 20 ft. in the air. Somehow I thought my parents would think this was "cool" and send me to Japan for more training. As it turned out I was grounded a lot :(
That fight scene at the beach ... hooboy, talk about something that I had rose colored glasses on for the last 30-odd years :P