You will also obtain a more flexible, graceful movement skill in your fighting and form work. You will gain in some cases over a thousand years of fighting knowledge passed on from instructor to student and so on. One of the last important factors is appearance. I am not talking about how large the school is or even how nicely its decorated. I mean the appearance of the instructor and his or her qualifications.
Many people when looking for a school try to find an Asian instructor.
Not only is this a bad motivating factor, but in some cases can be detrimental and damaging to your training. There are many very good Asian instructors out there teaching, but there are also unscrupulous and shady instructors using their race to motivate people to learn from them. Instructors like this, Asian and non-Asian alike have little to offer at the start of your training and in the future. A good instructor can impart knowledge to their students on a daily basis, challenging the student each and ever class with new information. Also an instructor should be physically fit and able to teach all classes personally.