Average experience — good sport, mediocre gym

I want to separate the sport from my specific experience. Taekwondo as a discipline is genuinely compelling — the jump spinning back kick, the depth of poomsae forms, first sparring session. All of that is real and valuable.

My gym, however, has been mediocre. Coaching quality varies session to session and adjusting to the point-scoring system has been handled poorly. I've seen people get hurt because progression was rushed. If I were starting over I'd research gym culture more carefully before committing. The sport gets four stars; my current gym gets two. This review averages to three.