Whatever you do in life, there is a reason behind that. We want to do many things. We start doing many things. But after a certain period of time, we just give up. 

![Why martial arts.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmexacHzWwjYaKJt8NCyS2yHx3Gu16xfNZS2bcz9X9A2w7)
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You see many people want to learn martial arts. Most of them join and start learning. At the beginning level. you usually see a lot of students. Later, the number of students decreases. If you are wondering why some people give up learning martial arts, please keep reading.

## Time and effort

To learn any skills, it takes time and consistent effort. Martial art is not exceptional. At the beginning of your martial art training, you are very motivated. Your motivation for learning martial art decreases over time. Or, you think this is not for you, you cannot do this anymore. Or, you just get super busy.

Many things can happen and you might give up learning martial arts. This is life. Life is not always like butterfly, sunshine, and rainbows. It has ups and downs. But you can always get back to where you left if you really want to do it.

## Reasons for learning martial arts
Let's go back to the basic. Why do you want to learn martial arts?

![Fancy moves.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmcGN4ooUc3mKhwTxBw6b998LNVUPyfAFN1jo5ia8sBza2)
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It is because you think that it is cool to learn. You see martial arts movies and decide to fight like them. Or, you want to participate in martial arts competition and be a champion.

You see in movies people do different impressive stuff like flying in the sky and kick, throw one punch and the bad guy gets hit on the wall. And the wall gets broken. So it is so powerful. You want to do something like that. 

The thing is, what you see in movies, that's for entertainment. Frankly speaking, many things you see in martial arts movies are not realistic. So don't make decision based on something that is not true.

![MMA for competition.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmRBm7vaHqQxSLrMxEpLMPbmSt6jTT34K2tELQNDrCSqF3)
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If you want to participate in the competition and be a champion, that's fine. You can learn martial arts and do better in competition. You can make your dreams come true. You have to have patience, and dedication to get there.

Before starting to learn martial arts, ask yourself why. That's your driving force to keep learning martial arts.  You can have many reasons to learn martial arts. One of the most important reasons for learning martial arts is for self defense. That's the main reason for most of the people. So what is your reason for learning martial arts?

Thank you for reading my post. This is the first part of the post. I will continue from here next time. And please feel free to let me know your thoughts. Your feedback is like oxygen to me. :)