Many of you have followed (and encouraged me) on this journey to get my black belt and the time is approaching where my dream will be realized. I started taking taekwondo in 2010. I visited a few schools and settled on Yongin Martial Arts. It was just something about Master Kim that spoke to me and I knew I would enjoy learning from him.
When I joined, Yongin had only been open for a few months. Soon they started a demo team and I joined. I am no longer a member of the demo team, but that team was sooo fun (even if I was the oldest one on the team). Demo is where I learned all the advanced skills...it always kept me on my toes.
Anyway, I did taekwondo even through my first trimester of pregnancy. After the first trimester I took off until February of 2013(about 9 months total). When I started back it was ROUGH! Not only was I out of shape, but I hated being away from Seth. Sean kept encouraging me, plus I was only one belt away from qualifying to test for my black belt. Well I finally tested last week..and I GOT IT! I am now pre-qualified to test for the black belt. And on Monday I found out this is where the real fun starts.
Between August and November I have to do the following to qualify for my black belt test
- Complete 100 acts of kindness
- Run 50 miles
- Do 3,000 push ups
- Do 4,500 sit ups
- Do 30 reps of the 9 forms (each form is at least 18 moves0
- Do 30 reps of the 8 self defense techniques
- Do 30 reps of choreographed self defense technique
- Do a black belt project (usually some type of demo)
- Do a charity project
- Get letters of recommendation
- Attend 2 manual study classes for the written test
- Attend 3 seminars that review martial art basics
All the things above are what I have to do before I take the written test and the physical test. If I remeber correctly, the physical test is about 3-4 hours long.
Every journey starts will one step...
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