I have studied karate for around about 9 years and have reached brown belt level(my sensei didn't like to grade us very often). I took the decision about 3 years ago to concentrate more on my life and never went back to train at all. Now i have the problem of loving karate, actually being quite good at it but can't find the confidence to go back. I practace my Kata quite often and apart from fitness and probrably being alittle rusty with sparring there shouldn't be much holding me back but the proverbial anchor is firmly in the ground. I would like to know if anyone else has given up for a long period and found it hard to go back to training and if so how did you build the confidence to do it.
