I got my black belt in Karate twice. Once when I was a peewee at age 7 and then again as a junior at 13. I stopped doing karate when I had to go in adult classes because the entire thing changed from being a place of learning and growing into a place to beat people up.
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Man how unfortunate that you had to quit something you clearly loved because the culture of the classes changed as you got older. Thanks for participating and sharing your story!
Thank you. I feel like I got a lot out of it and I'm glad I succeeded in the belts that I did get. Thank you for doing such a good post idea. You got a lot of comments here!
To me karate should just be like a sport for exercising if you don't have the intention of beating up people who offend you in life.
It was like that in the lower classes and I am really glad I did it, but the adults were a different story. They liked to take it out on the young kids that had black belts. I did not want to continue just to learn to hurt people.
I really want to know karate when I was 7yrs old but my parents wont let me enroll in a karate class because they thought that I might become a bully! hahaha well now im 21 and I still dont know karate
Some people do turn out like bullies from it, but you also learn very good skills.
i want to learn that skills too when needed
Maybe you can find a dojo near you. It takes a lot of work to do karate, but it's fun in the lower belts.
i hope to find soon and enroll haha. Im a bit excited about it