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Do you ever look back on your older posts and wonder how you could have been so stupid back then? I wish there was some way to delete all of my older stupid posts.

yeah i will "honor" the contract by paying them 200 dollars. thanks leaf, now I know I'll never sign contracts again, at least not for MA. thanks dekan for your input, when i first went to check out the TKD place they had trophies set up everywhere. maybe trophies can be a sign that the club is into making money? maybe not. hmm. what are some other signs i should look for to see if a MA dojo is for real?

hey i don't live in california. thanks for your responses, i know what you guys mean about the quality of training, but.. if the place actually taught what it was worth i probably would have still stayed around. But the thing is, other than the fact the classes are boring (we do the same stuff each class), the instruction is horrible. They don't even tell you how to do a technique, they just have one of their blackbelts do a technique really quick and expect you to figure it out. and most of their blackbelts can't do the moves properly, so it's hard to learn (a lot of them are little kids). since i couldn't learn the techniques from my class I just looked it up from books and learned it liked that, but im tired of doing that all the time. and i've been going for almost a year now and we still haven't started contact sparring. we do no contact sparring every now and than, but barely. i'd say once a month at most. really horrible. thanks for your replies.

I sent one. I hope they will read it.

After reading all of your replies I think it's best for me to stick to it for another two months and than go to a better place. Though I feel like im wasting my time, going to TKD even if it's a McDojo must be a lot better than sitting on the couch all day. At least now I know to never sign contracts! It's a good lesson. thanks

I signed a contract in TKD for a year. I thought it was fun at first but now it's pretty boring. I still get exercise by going there and everything, but I know it's a Mcdojo. Because it's only 2 hours a week and 100 dollars for one month. Not to mention it costs 50 dollars for belt tests which is a bit unfair for me. Fortunately it's all over in about two months, and I'll be searching for another art but I wanted to know what you thought. Should I keep going to TKD for the next two months. Or should I quit TKD right now, waste the already wasted 200 dollars, save my time and search for another art right away? what would you do?

hey avril. so basically you're saying you should eat lots of carbs, but only from fruits and vegetables and not stuff like rice, potatoes, bread, pasta, etc? thanks.

That sounds awesome. Is it possible you could get on KF every two weeks and tell us how it's going?

It's your choice. If you want to stay, you should stay. If you want to go to the new dojang, then go.

https://www.budoseek.net has a hapkido forum.

Taekwondo and hapkido have similar kicks from what I know. Good luck with hapkido.

hey karatekid how did you get out of the contract for your other TKD school? (or how do you plan to if you haven't already?)

How about muay thai or kickboxing? It has two of the things you are looking for. Good luck

I think it would be hard to find an art with everything you want. You might want to think of crosstraining in the future. Or you could try checking out Jeet Kune do.

welcome to the website.

hey there, welcome to karateforums. Enjoy your stay. I wish you luck in finding the right art.

Hey, welcome to the forum. 3 months of free lessons is a great deal, I think. Try it out for yourself and see what you think. Even if in the end you don't like it, at least you got three months of free MA and exercise. Good luck and I hope you have fun!

jeez i can't do that with my hands. i suppose he's infertile now...

dragon ball z jiu jitsu?! i thought dragon ball was anime...

I'm not too sure if this is what you're asking but I would recommend to try a book or video on shotokan karate and review the katas using that.

hey, welcome to the forums! 20 isn't late to start, i know of 50 year olds that just started. what are some arts available around your area? i wouldn't suggest joining those places where there's a lot of little kids running around or you might feel too awkward. look into a school where they have seperate classes for adult/kids.

hey welcome to the forums, koji.

hey, welcome to the forums.

hi, check these out. they are martial art places in milwaukee (two of them are karate) http://my.execpc.com/~haessler/ http://www.gojukai.com/milwaukee.htm http://www.risingdragonmartialart.com/

How long does it take everyone in here to get to their MA place? It takes me around 5-10 minutes.