Just read the first post. My mom put me into TKD when I was about 11 because I was going to go into middle school and my mom wanted me to learn patience and control. Given that I had absolutely towards my peers (but I did towards authorities that I saw as just), I got into a lot of fights. Ironically, I fought a lot because I was pushed around.
So my mom took a gamble. She realized that I could learn patience and control, thus avoiding conflict and not diverting my energies from school, or that I could become more lethal than I previously had been. I went the former road because once I did learn to whoop some ass, I didnt need to prove anything or waste my time with morons.
I stuck with it for a while since I was goal driven, and I got my black belt. But a little while later, I dropped it because nothing really changed instruction-wise once I got it (except new forms) and I didnt feel like I was getting anything else out of it. I also felt a little limited in dealing with non-choreographed situations so i had to learn that shit somewhere else.
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