In fact, if you know that you are only interested, don't go to that martial arts school. If you are self-defense, I personally suggest that you might as well learn Taekwondo or Jeet Kune Do. If you want to get up early in the morning and learn Tai Chi from those uncles, you can go to those formal places if you want to take the road of martial arts. I'm afraid you'll be disappointed when you go. Routines are always routines, and martial arts can't learn anything at all. Routine is an ornamental thing, and martial arts is a killing thing. Ordinary schools won't teach you anything. Do you think it's worth it that students of traditional Wushu can't beat Sanda for three months and two months? Poor literature is full of martial arts.