07.09.2019
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How old is too old for the martial arts and Taekwondo? I started martial arts when I was in my forties and here are my 'lessons learned' for adult beginners.
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First a quick note: You will not be regarded an idiot. Remember that every TKD practitioner with colored belts started out as white belts once, and they know what it's like to be on their first lesson. Taekwondo is a sport which demands different skills. Balance, eye-body coordination, explosiveness, flexibility.
Some of these you might have as you come in, some you will have to work hard to gain. To my experience, other students are very cool, helpful and patient with white belts and they do not demand that you will catch on straight away. They will not express, or likely feel, that you are looking like an idiot. The best thing you can do is to focus as much as you can on what is told you and do as you are told to the best of your abilities. If you fail to perform it perfectly, do not feel like you have to excuse yourself to anyone. Just try again.
Taekwondo Techniques For Beginners
Focus inwards. Also, oftentimes the instructor will break down a movement in detail. For example a block, a kick, a stance or a combination of those. Do not fret if you fail to remember or execute those details.
They do this to help the more advanced students, who have performed this exact movement a hundred times, get even better. In your first lessons you should instead focus on remembering the basics and the mechanics of the technique, and its name. You can work on the details later. If you get hooked you will probably go searching for tutorials on youtube or elsewhere online. This can be helpful as an addition to training in classes as you advance in TKD, but it can also overwhelm you with information. The instructor know what you need to learn first and hopefully help you focus on that.
List Of Taekwondo Techniques
If you want to spend time outside the class on TKD, practice what you learned in your lessons, not the fancy jumping spinning heel hook that you find on youtube. It will pay off, I promise. As Fosnez say, they will use Korean expressions.
When I started out I found this page useful: Good luck on your TKD lessons, and welcome to the family:). There will be a lot of new information coming at you all in what seems like all at once (an it pretty much is). If you aren't doing some sort of private lesson, you will be witnessing movements you haven't seen, tried, or imagined trying. Hopefully you have an instructor that can give you some sort personalization and bits of face to face instruction. With a new school year starting, the after school program I instruct with dumbs down (takes it slower and back to more of the roots) the first couple weeks of classes to get everyone into the groove and to let new students dip their toes in a pool and not an ocean.
I always tell a new student, be it a 5 year old that will pretend to be a helicopter when I turn my back, or a 21 year old who is ready to learn, that there is a lot of new stuff, and you don't have to remember it right now. You have to get a feel for it.
You may hear and be taught 30 different things your first class, you DO NOT need to memorize it all. That is what going to class is, you introduce yourself, then you begin to learn. Once you have basics, just like any learning, you move to more advanced and so on. TL;DR: Dip your toe into the pool of Taekwondo, there is no need to stress about swimming laps as it will come in time. (sorry if this is hard to comprehend, it's late, my mind was rambling, so its probably confusing and kind of all over). Say yes sir/ma'am to everything. There is going to be Korean.
Just do whatever everyone else is doing and you'll learn what those random words mean. Keep your hands up. If you are doing a technique and you think you are doing it horribly wrong, get assistance on how to do it, you don't want bad muscle memory. All TKD kicks require you to get your knee up, just keep that in mind. A few of these things I mentioned come with time, just be obedient, try hard, and don't be intimidated, Taekwondo is designed to be a lifetime thing, so you have plenty of time to improve. Get solid basics and good luck!