Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Picking a Tae Kwon Do School - Your Goal

If you are about to take up Tae Kwon Do, or to enroll your child in a school, it pays to have a sense of how to evaluate Tae Kwon Do schools. The criteria differ a bit for adults and children, but generally, they apply to both.

Your first step in your "due diligence" should be to ask yourself a basic question - "Why am I studying Tae Kwon Do"? Some reasons why people study martial arts:
- To get into shape
- To learn/teach (children) discipline
- To compete
- To be capable of defending yourself
- To participate in a sporting community

There are other, less noble, reasons that people take up martial arts, but these are a few of the basics. Note, depending on your goal, different schools will fit you better or worse.

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