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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 2730030" data-attributes="member: 212077"><p>I&#039;ve been doing karate for a long time now. Next month, I&#039;m supposed to go take my black-stripe 1st kyu test. I have to go test at a seminar and I&#039;m the type of person to get nervous very easily. I&#039;ve been losing faith in karate, but not just because of this test. I used to be at the point where I would cry if I missed a class, and I was so good at it! Now, I almost come crying from class because of how frustrated I am with it. I practice at home and I get really into it, but at the dojo I just can&#039;t focus or anything - I don&#039;t know what&#039;s wrong. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I don&#039;t want to stop doing karate all together, but it&#039;s honestly causing me so much stress. My friends there aren&#039;t really my friends anymore, they&#039;re one/two higher ranks than me and they talk to me like I&#039;m stupid now. I help the lower ranks, and most of them don&#039;t listen and roll their eyes whenever I tell them how to fix something. I don&#039;t feel like I&#039;m respected or wanted there and it&#039;s causing me so much discouragement. I don&#039;t feel like I&#039;m good at it anymore or even that I should be there. But, I know I&#039;ll regret it if I quit. I&#039;m so scared that I&#039;m going to do horrible at my test because of how I feel, and that I&#039;ll never get back to where I once was. I need some advice? :\</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 2730030, member: 212077"] I've been doing karate for a long time now. Next month, I'm supposed to go take my black-stripe 1st kyu test. I have to go test at a seminar and I'm the type of person to get nervous very easily. I've been losing faith in karate, but not just because of this test. I used to be at the point where I would cry if I missed a class, and I was so good at it! Now, I almost come crying from class because of how frustrated I am with it. I practice at home and I get really into it, but at the dojo I just can't focus or anything - I don't know what's wrong. :( I don't want to stop doing karate all together, but it's honestly causing me so much stress. My friends there aren't really my friends anymore, they're one/two higher ranks than me and they talk to me like I'm stupid now. I help the lower ranks, and most of them don't listen and roll their eyes whenever I tell them how to fix something. I don't feel like I'm respected or wanted there and it's causing me so much discouragement. I don't feel like I'm good at it anymore or even that I should be there. But, I know I'll regret it if I quit. I'm so scared that I'm going to do horrible at my test because of how I feel, and that I'll never get back to where I once was. I need some advice? :\ [/QUOTE]

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