I have been doing martial arts since I was five years old. I have gone to Willow Martial Arts for the bulk of it. One thing I have noticed is that when someone leaves they have a very difficult time recommitting the time and energy to working on TaeKwonDo. Only one person besides my father and I have ever left the school and recommitted after returning and he and I trained multiple times a week while we were gone.
Commitment is Important
Contradictory to popular opinion committing to regular class attendance at a school, club or dojo is important. The main reasons are because you do not improve nearly as fast working with the same partner on repeat as you do working with a variety of partners.
It also forces you to be accountable for your training inside and outside of class. Self–accountability never works in anything because inevitably you will start skipping training or half–doing it.
You would also learn to do things that you would not have otherwise practiced on your own. I had a very limited practice of the forms specifically because I did not see much use aside from extending the duration of classes and training your body to act in combinations. However, the forms when practiced enough works to work on gaining strength and endurance for sparring and self–defense.
You Can’t Completely Train on your Own
When my father and I left the school because of the conflict in ideals we focused mainly on area’s we needed to grow in. In addition to that we cut out several training practices we deemed unnecessary that by the time we returned we were getting drained a lot faster.
Take Away
Keep practicing at your school and don’t avoid classes because you aren’t interested in the content of them. Stay and practice because you will fall behind the others that do attend the classes you miss.
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