Weaving. I though I'd have to get a huge-ass loom and all that, until I found a guide for making a small cardboard thingy with notches for the warp threads to get started, and later got one of those small kids' looms.
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Combat Sports.
I got bored of the gym, so I decided to take BJJ. Grappling is really fucking hard, as in you have no clue what you're doing, and no idea how to stop someone from fucking you up on the ground. It's one of those sports that you can spend six months doing and barely get a feel of wtf is going on.
Two years later, I was somewhat capable, and got my blue belt. I then noticed that I was actually pretty good compared to the white belts. Things started to make sense, and while I got absolutely fucked up by everyone else, the positions made sense. I'm now a purple belt, and the other day I did an iminari roll and a rolling guillotine on a white belt during a spar, just because I could.
In the middle of this, I started doing MMA. Striking is also hard, especially when you mix with wrestling/grappling. I came in as the guy that was fucking useless with striking, but when we took 45 mins to do some grappling the coach was wondering why the new thirty-something idiot was tapping everyone. Eventually we found my level, and he gave me some solid pointers on how to work on my striking to bring it up to level with my grappling.
All in all, combat sports seem pretty scary, but getting into it is just a matter of turning up and giving it a try. You'll feel like a useless idiot for months, but before you know it people will be asking you wtf you just did to them...right after you had had the same conversation with the person that's better than you.
I posted here about getting into armored MMA. I can echo this sentiment. Feeling yourself getting better, and flooring the complete newbies from time to time is a wonderful experience. Or getting one good, clean takedown on your instructor, even if it was mostly a fluke. Having a good instructor makes all the difference, too. Someone that can explain the how, and the why.
It really does sound scary, and yeah - people get hurt. But that's not the goal of the sport, at least not like, seriously. People look out, and at least in my sport, the first few classes were all how to be safe.
It also surprised me just now hard even striking can be, like you said. It sounds super easy, just got em with the sword. Or your hand. But there's so much to just throwing a good hit, let alone while someone else is trying the same thing.
So yeah, 10/10, if anyone's at all interested in a combat sport, take the dive.