My Second Degree Black Belt In Tae Kwon-Do

I worked just as hard, yet my test results were notably underwhelming in comparison to my ‘top 10’ classmates. What was different about me, I thought every night before I fell asleep. Then I realized, I was alone in my cherishment of extracurricular activities. While my classmates were up late Friday nights studying, I was cheering on the sidelines, exerting myself to pep up the crowd via backflips. When others were reading ahead, I was helping to feed outlying communities. While the ‘top 10’ was still cramming, I was at a Wednesday worship program. I’m committed to giving my complete impetus to everything I take part in, and sometimes, your best isn’t enough for what you want and there is almost nothing you can do about it. This taught me that in order to be truly fulfilled, you need to accept failure as part of your life and learn to move on. Thinking about it, I would not be happier if I quit doing the things I love to study more so that I could be in the ‘top 10’. In fact, I would most definitely be more miserable. Learning to accept failure, I have decided to cultivate my energy into simply giving my all and to welcome whatever rank, or not, I receive with open

It was one of my last training sessions before my Kali black belt exam. “How long does it take an average person to get a black belt?” asked a new student. “The average person does not get a black belt”, responded my teacher. When I heard this unusual response, I understood that the beginner was asking the wrong question. It is not “how long”, but “what” does it take.

Black Belt is much more than any other belt, it is a statement. It says that they had the courage to never give up. In my eyes, a Black Belt is a leader, a teacher, and a friend.

I am particularly proud of the fact that I did well in my event during track season. I was asked by the track coach to run in an event that I have never done before--300 meter hurdles. At the beginning of the season my times were slow and my technique was poor. I watched the other hurdlers and emulated their effort. I took direction from the coach. As the season progressed, my times steadily improved. At the end of the season I competed for a spot in the regional finals. I am happy that I competed even though I didn’t make the finals. This experience demonstrates my self motivation, my ability to overcome stress and a degree of competence I didn’t know I had in a sport in which success is largely determined by individual effort. At

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Samuel Butler once said, “Fear is the static that prevents me from hearing myself” and few statements ring as true in my ears. Fear prevented and weakened too many of my actions for years, especially in my progression of Taekwondo ranks. Belt Exams shot fear, stress, anxiety deep within my body, waiting for my thoughts to wander then bombarding me with the potential of failure and ineptitude. Nothing scared me more than the thought of not passing an examination. I was forced to confront the reality of my fears at the end of the summer when I was told that I would not be allowed to receive my new belt. The news did not feel true but my instructor confirmed it. My shreds of confidence completely shattered and my instructor knew that it was not

Growing up my parents had me involved in just about every activity that they could think of. Whether it was dance, soccer, or even baseball, at one point during elementary school I was participating in it. My favorite sport that I participated in was karate. I actually quit dance in first grade in order to start going to karate lessons. Andrew, my older brother was also in karate and later on my younger brother Alex joined as well. I was in karate for about four years until I began to get so busy that I could not make it to classes. The reason I was so busy was that I began taking basketball more seriously.

Besides schoolwork, I participated in a lot of outdoor and indoor sports, including soccer, baseball and taekwondo during my high school years. However, the only sport that I performed competitively was taekwondo, a form of martial art originated in South Korea. I remember for my first tournament, I spent literally hundreds of hours practicing my skills hoping that I might be to claim my first medal. Just right before the tournament, my confident was at an all-time high due to the positive feedbacks that I received from my instructor and classmates. After my performance, I believed I did pretty well and there was no doubt in my mind that I was going to be on the podium. But surprisingly, I was placed 4th when they judges announced their scores.

While many of my extracurricular activities have been fulfilling, taekwondo has been the most important to me. I started taekwondo when I was five because my mom felt that I needed to learn self-defense against bullying. Eventually, taekwondo became my favorite activity. I went to my first regional tournament in 2008, won the tournament, and thus started training even harder. Over the next four years, I competed at the annual national tournament, winning my first in 2009, and subsequent championships in 2010 and 2012. Through this period, I also got my first degree black belt in 2009 and my second degree black belt in 2012.

There is nothing that breeds more success than honest failures. I can remember the time, although it feels so long ago, where I had entered the dojo of Klotz Institute for Karate as a beltless novice. I can remember seeing the other students, whose ages ranged from half to three times my own, and admiring the confidence and the effortlessness of every technique they perform. I can remember the first time I put on a pair of gloves and a helmet. We were practicing a few basic combinations and I ended up being paired with an older man wearing a black belt. I put on best game face I could muster and pretended that I had done this a hundred times before. Well, he must have believed me because as

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1. I want to be a Black Belt so I can really help people focus on teaching them how to do their pattern for their rank and a Black belt means to me a lot because it shows how much hard I worked to get the Black belt.

. Since the organizations are built around people and their knowledge, not just philosophies or programs, the success of the six sigma” breakthrough: depends on people who are properly trained. Deploying special forces knowns as” Black Belts: throughout the company to work full time on projects to drive out defects is integral to success. Training black belts provides the necessary knowledge and technical ground for companies to achieve their targets.

Although my life to date has been characterized by a number of such poignant moments, perhaps the most compelling "why not" moment in my life was the decision to actively participate in the martial arts in general and taekwondo in particular when I was younger. Despite my young age and although the sport is dominated by male competitors, I firmly believed I was just as physically and mentally capable as anyone else in the sport and this sense of self-assurance produced a number of personal benefits and rewards that have since expanded my horizons. For example, when I was just 15 years old, I participated in a 3-day exchange in South Korea with Korean taekwondo competitors, took part in the training in Korean Taekwondo Hall and joined the China and South Korea Kickboxing Friendly Exchange Competition competing on behalf of China. Since that time, I have also competed in provincial leagues a number of times and more recently, as a blue belt, level 4, I was the runner-up in the Heilongjiang Mudanjiang Youth Taekwondo Tournament (Group A) in 2009. This latest experience

Both judo and karate originated in Japan. However, these are very different and only have a few similarities even though the people I have talked to seem to think they are interchangeable. One of these is common in America. Everyone has done it, knows someone who has done it, or has at least heard of it. When people hear of the other they frequently ask, is that the same as karate? Or they may say, what? What? Oh, I never heard of that, what is it?