tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458465103162971589.post8537790454780688703..comments2023-05-28T21:17:11.258-05:00Comments on Look What Danny Made!: Enter The Danny: Round 10Dannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02528188612235068004noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458465103162971589.post-60073801406282155422011-07-27T13:21:43.236-05:002011-07-27T13:21:43.236-05:00I've heard in the past that one of the reasons...I've heard in the past that one of the reasons people take martial arts classes is to increase their confidence, but actually experiencing it, and in just one month, has really been an unanticipated benefit of this project.<br /><br />Those are good questions, and I'm going back and forth on the answers to them. The biggest limiting factor, as with most things, is time and money. I enjoy it, but I don't know if I enjoy it enough to dive deeper into it. I've been doing the lessons for free this month, and even though the cost of continuing them wouldn't be terribly expensive, we do have some added expenses coming up this fall that we're trying to plan for. On top of that, there's the expense of having a babysitter come to the house each time a lesson falls on one of the evenings that Courtney is working. Over the course of this month, that's added up to about as much as a month of lessons normally would. My parents are very cool and welcoming to their grandkids, but I don't want to saddle them with that three nights a week, either.<br /><br />As far as getting the boys (or Ava!) into it, I think it could be a positive thing. On one of the evenings that I took Blake up there with me, he actually sparred a little with a boy who is in the kids class while I interviewed Tony. He loved it! Again, though, our evening schedule would make it kind of tough to work out the timing for it, and I think there's some other things he's more interested in. For instance, he's been asking about violin lessons for a while. I think Jack may be the fighter in our family!Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02528188612235068004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458465103162971589.post-60083752075424783502011-07-27T07:32:07.775-05:002011-07-27T07:32:07.775-05:00Awesome that you are finding your own brotherhood!...Awesome that you are finding your own brotherhood! Sometimes you seem almost too humble ("good at looking stupid"). <br /><br />Questions: are you thinking at all about trying to get your boys interested in martial arts at all after this experience? And the big one which I am sure you will answer at the end is: will you continue to take classes after the blog project is over? <br />It seems to me that you are gaining interesting things from this venture: not just skills and training, but comraderie, self esteem points, and pride. Seems like good things to continue.Andrea G.noreply@blogger.com