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- From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
- Subject: Re: Tae Kwon Do, getting a Black Belt, etc...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.133134.1448@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:31:34 GMT
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- In article hurben@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Mike Hurben) writes:
- > Hello! I only recently discovered this group - I don't have a specific
- >question to ask, but someone may want to make some comments...
- > I have been training in TKD here in Ft Collins for about a year now, and I am
- >presently a red belt (white,yellow,green,blue,red,black). This was not my
-
- From my perspective, that seems like *very* rapid progress. Just
- to give you a sense of the other extreme, it took me nearly five
- years to reach the red belt level in TKD. I was spending about
- 8 hours/week as opposed to your 12 - 15, but even so your rate
- of progress has been about 3 times as fast as mine was.
-
- >for black, you essentially have to test twice. By the way, is this how most
- >schools do this? What happens is we have 'Black Belt recommend' which is what
- >you get if you pass test 1, and you also get to wear the belt. Then, the
- >second test is for '1st Dan.' Now, I don't believe that there is any way that
- >I can become 1st Dan in just 6 or 7 months, partially because I don't think
- >anyone should be able to get it within that short a time span. But I think that
-
- If you made it to red in a year, black in 6 or 7 months might not
- be out of the question. I've seen the double-dan test before,
- but only in the case of people with dan ranking from some other
- organization upon joining a new school. You take an abbreviated
- exam to get a provisional belt which allows you to get up to
- speed in the new environment. Then you confirm (or lose) it
- with a full test six months later. Another device is to require
- a test for "black stripe" between red and black. This is how it
- was done in the school where I trained, and I guess you could
- say that it amounted to taking two black belt exams.
- --
- Richard A. Drury
- drury@helix.nih.gov
-