Training in karate for 15 days (3 weeks) Mon-Fri
Hello everyone! I am 15 yrs old and i decided to enroll in karate 4 days ago.
When I enrolled(Thursday), I was quite anxious and didn't know what was happening since I have no prior knowledge of karate or any behaviors needed to do/observe + I was a late enrollee. But so far in my experience, we were training katas and also something similar to katas but we were using sticks.. I'm not sure what the figure is called. But moving on.. I slowly but surely followed the other trainees surrounding me since I was told to observe and follow. We then had intense training I have never experienced and it was quite surprising and fun! On the 2nd day(Friday) we had sparring and after 1 minute sparring each trainee I got immensely tired after sparring with 5 but still pushed through and we had a punishment where we were running 2 laps and 1/2 lap of squat walking barefooted on the tracking field because sensei saw our very.. questionable sparring and he wasn’t happy. Like during the sparring I was punching 2 times and kicking but everytime I’d do I’d always say sorry and ask permission if I could punch or kick.. After the weekend break, today is my 3rd day. Initially I was afraid to go today due to some reasons of bad mental health, I reassessed myself and asked questions why I was afraid. Why i didn't wanna go, short answer, Im not close yet with the trainees nor instructors or even considered as friends. But I decided I want to go anyways since.. Hey, my family spent 20 dollars/1kpesos for me to enroll and I shouldnt waste it. Continuing on, our schedule is Monday to Friday 12 PM - 4 PM, 4 hours of training! Good luck and God bless to me on my 3rd day of karate!
I would also like to ask advice on what to do for now as a beginner in karate, and how to get over these really overwhelming anxiety before karate class
I will/might update about my karate experience :) thank you