I Just Gave Up on Taekwondo

Hi Kalynn,

I am a bit frustrated, because after about 4 months consideration I made the decision to stop attending taekwondo class in the school where I actually started learning TKD.

There are several reason why I made this decision, but I feel empty now and actually, I can talk to no one of my friends because they did never experienced TKD!

For your better understanding.

I am Sara (31) from Germany, I came to China in 2008 and started TKD spring 2009. Our trainer is Korean and at that time most students were children or students.

It was quite hard from the beginning because I think training methods for adults and kids should be different. Furthermore there was quite a lot of difficulties regarding language (no my Chinese is much better) but still I feel not so relaxed and my reaction is always slow due to this issue. One more issue is, that my job is really demanding here and a normal day is 10-12 hours, taking subway going to office and back in Beijing is not really fun.

So sometimes I really feel exhausted but need to get some kind of sports to get all the things out of my head and relax.

Unfortunately the trainer (29) has no idea about my job and is not really tolerant and he is always picking on my if I do the kicks without engergy or if I need a pause sometimes.

It makes me so angry and upset as he should know that I love taekwondo and want to continue to do tae kwon do even though my time is limited and it is quite hard to manage.

I am really no happy coming to class and having this feeling in me I am not free to enjoy TKD and to improve and feel free to let it go.

Of course there are many factors why I made this decision but yesterday I felt so empty.

Even if I try to find another school, I am sure it is not really common in China that there are adults doing this kind of martial arts.

I know it was a good decision and I do not regret but I need to find a way to continue TKD and enjoy it again! And I am very happy that I got the chance to write down some of my feelings and share it with you!

Thank you!

Regards from Beijing

Sara