I have this problem regarding staring Jiu Jitsu

[Nocturnal]

I so badly want to start training Jiu Jitsu locally. But, I can't for the life of me get myself to go down there and start training.

I do have an anxiety problem. I've gone down there once before to check it out and it seemed like something I am interested in.

I would no doubt love to go and start training but for some reason I make up excuses to myself to stop myself from going.

Everyone has told me to just go. Drive down there, walk up the stairs and tell the person in charge that I would like to start training.

I just can't help myself... I feel so stupid not knowing how to do this certain move or how to do this. I just look stupid and feel extremely anxious.

Any advice and or tips?

 

[MacBaine]

Give a friend of yours $100, and tell them to spend it if you don't go down there and start the next day.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Give a friend of yours $100, and tell them to spend it if you don't go down there and start the next day.

I would probably let my friend keep the $.

 

[Yossarian]

can i be your friend then?

 

[PliotronX]

I wanna be your friend too!

Really though, everyone starts out not knowing the ropes. That's what the teachers are there for, to give you the proper knowledge. Get in there and start learning.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Give a friend of yours $100, and tell them to spend it if you don't go down there and start the next day.

I would probably let my friend keep the $.

Hey buddy


On a more productive note, only YOU can decide when to go. There are reasons you are putting it off, you need to look inside and figure out why you really dont want to go and face those issues.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Give a friend of yours $100, and tell them to spend it if you don't go down there and start the next day.

I would probably let my friend keep the $.

Hey buddy


On a more productive note, only YOU can decide when to go. There are reasons you are putting it off, you need to look inside and figure out why you really dont want to go and face those issues.

The first step is dedication, Grasshopper. Oh wait, he isn't here...

 

[tkdkid]

You're a goofball and have no experience in any martial arts. You know this, the instructor knows this. Everybody in the class knows it. That's why they're there, to help you get better. If it were just a meeting of martial arts experts, then you would not be welcome. But it isn't...it's a class and everybody in there was also a weird goofball with no experience when they first started.

I have a 2nd degree black belt in tae kwon do. When a new person joins a class it's really great to help them learn and see them advance... It's a great feeling when somebody finally pulls off some move that you taught them. Oh, and also when I first started, I was also a weird goofball... I couldn't even block a very slow kick...my brain just wasn't wired to do it.

 

[Nocturnal]

Ok so I need to find my inner motivation to get going.

Tomorrow is Tuesday, I'm off, I can go, I have the money and equipment.

How do I force myself to go?

First of all I'm throwing my gi in the car, second of all I'm not going to do anything too rough as to where it would help my mind create an obsticle of saying well I do this so I can't go today.

It'll be tough, I'll probably be laughed at, and I'll probably end up going home and never going back.

I hope I will prove myself wrong.

 

[amnesiac]

Who the hell is going to laugh at you?

If you went to a piano teacher for lessons and you sucked, will the teacher laugh at you? No.

You're there to learn. Everyone has to start somewhere, and EVERYONE in that room was a beginner like you at one point. Chances are if someone does laugh it is because your crack is showing.

 

[SilverThief]

You need to understand that you arent the only that has ever felt that way. I'll bet money that most people in that school felt the same way you did when they first started out.
Go, you wont be laughed at and you just might make some really good friends.

I'm going to divulge a little info about my experiences with the Martial Arts. I was 15 at the time, and the Ninja craze was at its full height. I spent the better part of a year researching the actual martial art of ninjutsu, not all the showy sh|t that you saw on tv.
Found a school in Houston that was part of a international school, and much like you, I stalked the place for a while before I got up the courage to actually go in and talk to somebody.
A week later I was the first person enrolled in the youth classes.
Kept at it for several years, earned a blue belt which is one less than black, before I stopped going. A job, car, and girls pretty much kept me away from it.
The art I studied was Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu.


I still wish I had stuck with it.

 

[StageLeft]

Perhaps a shrink can treat your anxiety.

 

[brxndxn]

No need to be afraid!!!

When I was small, I took a class or two of Tae Kwon Do.. I was really scared to do so at first. But, I realized quickly that even the best of the best sometimes still fall down or land wrong on a jump kick or punch the wrong way when the instructor yells 'Jab'.

The instructor was very nice and very serious at the same time. I was a little too into making jokes for him to respect me much, though. My head really wasn't in it, though, because I was more of a sports kid.

But, he was still very nice. I'd recommend being very serious when you go. When the instructor says to punch, punch as hard as you can. Don't ever do anything half-ass in a martial arts class.

The more serious you are, the more they'll respect you. The more they respect you, the better your experience taking the class..

 

[oLLie]

Find an Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboard and click the one that says "You lack discipline" I'm too undisciplined and lazy to actually link it for you.


Undisciplined bastard.

 

[Looney]

Why the heck are you so obsessed with people laughing at you? Has it really happened to you that often in real life? Trust me, nobody is going to laugh at you. Everybody starts off not knowing anything.