Thanking of quitting for a while.

[drop bear]

motivational video and stuff.

By the way I know guys who put this sort of stuff as their alarm ringtone. It is supposed to help.

 

[Ironbear24]

Training with a Chinese shifu who is rather traditional in his approach: no comment at all, just repeat, adjust, told you are doing it wrong, change, adjust, train more....10 years in he finally says...."good job"..... that right there is high praise. However for much of the 10 years prior you ask yourself rather frequently if you should just quit.

My sifu is so traditional he reminds me of Pai Mei from kill Bill. Only less Chinese and less facial hair. Stances low, or you get struck with a staff, feet proper or that disappointed father look. He seems to know when you are goofing off even though he went off to his office to talk to a potential customer.

Complain about pain and he will give this long speech about how pain is a part of life, and is a an obstacle that can be easily overcome. I got my first "you have gotten much better" from him yesterday and that made me feel like I won the lottery.

I decided to not quit because I simply don't know how to not enjoy martial arts. It can be frustrating but that's because it's not easy. If it were easy everybody would be doing it and the fact I am the only newer student left. Shows how difficult it is. I don't want to be one of the many quitters and plan on sticking around.

 

[Balrog]

I am getting too frustrated with myself. Getting tired of failure after failure and then more failure. I might come back later. Or I might go back to weight lifting, I honestly have no clue at the moment.

Quitting would be failure. Hitting a wall every now and then is to be expected. You just keep training until you can beat the wall.

It's all about perseverance. There's not a week that goes by that I don't think about quitting for some reason or another. 33 years later, I haven't gotten around to doing so.