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- From: hurben@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Mike Hurben)
- Subject: Re: Tae Kwon Do, getting a Black Belt, etc...
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- Message-ID: <Nov20.183009.51926@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:30:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.133134.1448@alw.nih.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov20.133134.1448@alw.nih.gov> drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury) writes:
- >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.
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- Yes, and this is what makes me wonder if I am a "real" red belt. When you are
- used to one school it is difficult to measure yourself against how others are
- ranked. I am very curious how I stack up with red belts from other schools.
- Also, for all of our belts, we have a high ranking, that is, a black stripe
- added to the ends of the belt. However, for red, we have red, high red, and
- 'black-tipped red' which has 2 black stripes. So this provides yet another step
- before black recommend. And I said that I am a red belt, but yesterday I took
- my high red test.
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- mike
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