Humble
Despite what I know as a martial artist, I know nothing.
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Very true… and perhaps frustrating. I think this is how many others of us at the dojo feel as well!
Frustrating isn’t the right term. It’s more like a realization that the path is long. When you start, you expect to know nothing; you barely realize you’re on a path. Then, after a while of practice (six months? A year? Two? more?) you feel like you’ve made progress, and it feels good.
Then there are days when you round a bend on the path and you see just how far it goes, and how relatively few steps you’ve actually taken. That’s more like how it felt.
i feel the same and i’ve practiced for about 2 1/2 years off and on. i’ve heard it said that a black belt is just the ‘master of basics’