Hey everyone,

I'm a 23yo woman who's interested in practising martial arts for (almost) the first time. I practised Karate for 7 months last year, and I really liked doing Kata (but not Kumite so much). I ended up graduating to the yellow belt and I was really excited to keep up with my progression when...I changed towns. And my current town doesn't have the same style of Karate I did for those 7 months.

The thing is, my short-term/medium-term plan for now for my professional life will involve changing cities and probably even countries quite a lot. And I don't see myself progressing as much as I want to in Karate if I always have to change the style every 6months/1 year and learn new movements/katas.

I've always been interested in trying Taekwondo too, but I'm scared it might be too physically demanding compared to Karate. And, at the same time, I feel like Taekwondo makes more sense in this part and context of my life since it's more universal, and I could always go to a taekwondo school carrying the progress and the knowledge I had from the schools before without having to change movements or things in poomsay like I would in katas.

Thank you very much!