Essay About Martial Arts Class

Everything will be harder when we are easily disappointed and look down on basic things. It is even harder when we don’t want to understand what we learn. But from learning and understanding the basics, the more advance things can be learned. I realized it after five years of practicing it. It was six years ago when I joined the martial arts called aikido for the first time. I felt like to join the class and so I joined it. I went inside the dojo, the Japanese term for classroom and literally means a room to practice martial arts. I see the whole room was surrounded by mirrors and the floor was all covered by mat. And the first lesson began. Of course I was very excited on the lesson. I followed what the teacher teach us. For one and a half hour, all I did was warm-up exercise. It was not like the martial

While every week, all I learnt was the warm up exercise and the basic part of it. I repeated the same thing over and over. I easily remembered the techniques of the material and memorized all the warm up practice. Until 6 months later, the first test began. The test in martial arts is to continue to higher grade and the higher the grade, the more advance thing we will learn. There is the order of the grade. For the beginner, it started from white belt. And when the practitioner pass the test, they will continue to yellow belt, green belt, blue belt, chocolate belt, and the last one is the black belt. One year will be need to continue to the next belt and it needed two test each belt. So the first test began. I didn’t even study for it and I passed it. I literally looked down on the basics and kept doing this until the day the third test started. I forgot most of techniques. The teacher scold me, “Did you study for the test!? If you did not study and you are not serious on practicing it, then stop practicing it! It will only waste your time! ”. I have never been so ashamed of