Question 008: Learn online

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You may find knowledge about Taekwondo and find tips on how to get better at performing Taekwondo on the Internet, but learning Taekwondo should be under the auspices of a certified instructor. TKDTutor.com offers the knowledge and the tips, but you must find an instructor to teach you how to perform Taekwondo. The instructor makes sure you learn the correct way to do a technique, insures you do not develop bad habits, inspires you to do better, and pushes you to do more. When you are around other students, you learn from watching them, you push yourself to do better than them, and it makes training more fun. 

You get better at anything by practicing and always trying to do more than you did the last time. Stamina comes from regular, hard work. This means that daily you should lift weights or do free exercises for strength, stretch for flexibility, run, cycle, jump rope etc. for endurance, kick and punch a heavy bag for power, and practice forms for technique. To get better at sparring, you must do a lot of sparring with various opponents. When most people train, they tend to train on the things that they can already do well. To get better, you must train on the things you can not do well.
No one ever became great by wishing for it or saying that they want to be great. Greatness comes from desire, hard work, determination, and perseverance. Think about the tenets of Taekwondo.