. I see martial arts training hasn't done much for your attitude. Remember? "Respect others"? I think I'll continue my training regardless of your ill advice.
"Respect others." Right. Sorry-I didn't realize that included
whining.
Oh, my stars, I've been training for three whole months and my tootsies hurt.
Never meant for you to actually quit, and it wasn't you I was belittling-it was what I perceived as a lack of fortitude from your initial post, the most common complaint-
whine!-of our society:
It's too hard.
It's supposed to be hard. Life is hard.
Get used to it.
When I began formal martial arts training on my 11th birthday, I hurt in all sorts of places: sore abs so bad I couldn't get out of bed at first the next morning. Sore thighs. Sore shouldes. Sore traps. Later, when I began sparring, bruises were added to the mix. I've been lucky, and in the nearly 40 years of training since that day (it'll be 40 on my birthday, next month) I've never been seriously injured when training-no broken bones beyond my nose and toes, no separated shoulders, or bad concussions. Not even plantar fascitis-even with all the fairly serious hiking and running that I do, I've never suffered from that or shin splints. Part of it's good warm ups, part of it's good training, and part of it is probably just dumb luck-in fact, at 50, I'm probably due for something ugly. In any case, beyond the occasional blister (do as your seniors do, only get some moleskin to put on there before you tape 'em up) nothings really hurt enough
to make me want to quit.
The statistic might have changed, but when I was a teenager, about 1 out of 13 people who started in martial arts made it to shodan. As shameful as that seemed to me, it was even more surprising how many dropped out after that-something like 1 in 20 shodans went on to higher rank. I'm sure, with the advent of the McDojo, that there are places that have better numbers. I'm sure, with dojos like mine, where I pretty much can charge what I like and only take students that I want to, there are better numbers: the only students that I've had quit are ones that moved away.
As for the shoes, as cool (and goofy) as they seem, no traditional shotokan sensei would allow them on the floor-back in the day, I wouldn't even have dreamt of asking my kyokushin sensei for such a radical departure from tradition, and he was hardly a traditionalist-it's about decorum, as much as anything.
It's possible that for one reason or another you're suffering more than most, and if that's true, I apologize.: Do like OldKarateGuy said and see a podiatrist, then. If it's just blisters, well.....
If you want to wear them when you practice on your own, that's fine, I guess, but your feet won't get any tougher-and 'Caver right: we're too easy on feet that are meant to go bare, and training shoes are the reason why our knees wear out so quickly-that's part of why Vibram came up with the goofy things-which I'd buy myself, if I didn't have mutant feet in size 15. :lfao:
