In the long run, training should lead primarily to a feeling of well-being, freshness and fullness of life energy. Therefore, the concept and layout of the exercises in the traditional TaeKwonDo is different from the usual sports programs, in which the emphasis is on increasing performance and the best result. Running a Marathon under 2 hours can bring satisfaction from the point of view of one’s own ego, however, such a run for joy is a completely different matter.
The basis of good training is above all the correct estimation of one’s own condition. There should be a natural taste for training. If this is not the case, we need to focus on the factors that affect our mental and physical condition. Whatever we find,… that we are tired from work, from school, that we do not manage to follow the everyday regime, or the expectations of others… it is necessary to be aware of this factor and reduce the planned workload during training accordingly. E.g. I will do only 10 clicks today instead of 5O, etc.… This shift should in itself give us a taste for exercise. If even this doesn’t help, we can only change into exercise clothes and sit down at the training site.
We should always start martial arts training with a short meditation in the form of calming. If you still don’t feel like training, it’s best to cancel your workout. Such a decision can be more useful than overcoming yourself and injuring yourself during exercise, for example. Taste is the basic essence of successful training. If the taste comes, you will find that in the end there were even 120… instead of the planned 50, and these are really shifting moments in achieving better abilities and skills.
Experienced TaeKwonDo masters know that the desire to train is necessary to achieve extremely demanding techniques and a cornerstone to build your own inner discipline. Only after fully achieving the ability to gain a desire to train even in difficult circumstances, it is possible to move to more demanding techniques of self-control, the so-called Guk-Ki in a literal translation to the techniques of the indomitable spirit.
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