When I was a Karate student, long, long ago, I attended every class I could.
When I became an instructor, my presence was always required.
Of course, people have lives and often cannot attend every class. Other than that, or injury or illness why would one miss a session?
Our current club had a Saturday class for a while, but it folded due to lousy attendance. We don't get most people there in the evenings, either.
At Jiu-Jitsu, I keep seeing members that I've never seen before, and I've been there over a month. There are some regulars, but also many who are there half of the time or less.
I just don't get it. People always say they love their martial arts classes and yet many are irregular.
Maybe I'm just obsessive.
I am a 68 year old retired teacher living on the west coast of Canada. I spent over 30 years as a student of Karate until my knees stopped liking it. My current passionate activity is Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, which I've been at for about 13 years.
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