Taekwondo Beginner Instructions
Why is the drop out rate so high in muay thai?
It seems like at every beginner class there is at least four brand new people over on the side, and maybe 1 in 20 decide to come back for a second lesson. The beginner class usually has 30 people in it. In fact I didn’t go for a month because of final exams and I came back and I only recognized three people. The advanced class isn’t too different, they stay for a couple months and then it’s a new batch. I’ve only been training there for two years and I’ve been there longer then almost any of the students.
Taekwondo wasn’t like this… I saw the same group of people (mostly) for five years. Muay Thai is hard but it isn’t that hard. Why is the drop out rate so high? It’s good quality instruction.
I trained in traditional (ITF) Taekwondo.
I also notice that during pads I go hard and do the combinations, and I look around and everybody is standing there talking and throwing one combo every 20 seconds.
Because most people enroll with a preconceived idea of what Muay Thai and it’s training is like, mostly from what they see in movies. So when they train in a decent gym that teaches them the right way and reality hits them making them realize it actually requires them to work hard and do repetitive drills of the same techniques over and over again day in and day out, they usually quit because it doesn’t fit with their fantasy of how they are going to train to become a bad*ss kickboxer like they see in the movies. The same thing usually happens in most traditional martial art classes like Karate for example. Not to diss TKD, but most TKD classes are the sports variety usually taught to children, so the classes are more fun and engaging compared to more traditional classes. If you’ve ever tried a traditional TKD class, the same thing would probably happen regarding the attendance rate. Don’t worry too much about it, just keep training, you don’t need to train with slackers, the less slackers in your class the better. You’re better off training with a few people who are just as dedicated as you, than training with a class full of slackers, as this would be mutually beneficial for all of you in the long run.
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