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I’m always scared walking into a new gym. It’s an unfamiliar setting, and everybody is walking around so cocksure of themselves. My inner dialogue starts nagging me: Will I use a piece of equipment wrong? Will everyone laugh at me when I do? Will I violate this particular gym’s etiquette? Will everyone laugh at me when I do? Will everyone laugh at me… just because? With some Googling today, I found out this social anxiety is called the Spotlight Effect.

I sure didn't appreciate this Karen calling me "weak," but it was the beginning of a whole new world of workouts for me.

Just like the Karate Kid, I found my Mr. Miyagi through dumb luck. My very first phone call just happened to connect me to one of the preeminent practitioners of Taekwon-Do in Canada: Master Grant Arden at Apollo Taekwon-Do.