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In theory yes, in practice, I get really upset. The past few intramural tournaments I leave there depressed out of my mind. I train really hard and really consistently. I make a lot of big demands of myself. I already lose at a lot of things in life, so I'm trying to make TKD something I can win at. Like, I should probably…

My experience with tournaments is similar, they favor making smaller brackets. Not sure if it's a time issue, or a courtesy issue. Largest bracket I've been in has only been 5. They'll split us up first by rank, and then by size. So, awesome pictures, but they did not answer my one burning question... is bwmalone korean?

Just some incoherent rambling. Someone took my red belt by accident last tuesday so I haven't had it all week. I've had to wear my purple belt. Feels bad.... I did the math, and looked on the calendar, it looks like I'll be getting my black belt the week of my 38th birthday. What a great gift to give myself. Our intramural…

" But, I've recently been getting a lot of annoying comments such as 'You need to stop losing weight,' and 'You have to start eating again.' " If you rebound and actually put weight back on, they will STFU pretty quick. That was my experience. Now that it has become visually apparent to the people around me that getting…

Everyone around me is tired of me inviting them out to train with me as well. We can't help it if we want to share a good thing. It's like eating birthday cake, it's more fun when shared.

Belts are misleading. You can't tell someone's skill by their belt rank. A lot of times it comes down to conditioning.

First? Awesome! Tell us more, particularly about the sparring!

Everything after 40 seconds in was painful to watch.

I've lost ~130lbs and inadvertently maintain now. The best advice I can give is consistency. It just takes (a lot of) time. Don't get stuck doing fad diets. Eat well, count calories. Do exercise. Every day. Doesn't matter if you're going hard or light, eating carbs or fats. Just put in the effort and stay consistent.

As a TKD fighter I'd really like to train some BJJ at some point. I have issues with being that close to people, I really enjoy my space. But TKD is only one half the equation, most "street fights" end up in a grapple, so it's good to know both striking and grappling. We practice hapkido at my school, but it is nowhere…

> I just don't know what to do to keep everything going when I fall apart. You get up and try again. That's all you CAN do. You're not alone. This is a common, if not the most common theme, of people fighting their weight.

Chit chat on the way out haha. Rarely we end with stretching

Does anyone have a legitimate/good site for purchasing sparring gear and martial arts accessories? I'm particularly looking for WTF TKD stuff. It's always kind of a crapshoot finding providers. I'd like a new competition uniform, helmets, etc, and I'd like to be able to tell people where to get the daedo e-sparring…

I never kept my first broken boards for the reasons you just stated :)

My favorite female martial artists are the ones I take class with <3

First Dan registration cost my friend 140 dollars roughly 3 years ago. Our school is registered as a testing facility on the kukkiwon website, not sure if that makes a difference.

Ill let you know when i get there but i dont think its more than a couple hundred bucks. Ill ask one of the black belts who has their card

There is a striping system (it's different for the black belts but they have one too). Each class you take is one black stripe. You need 18 classes minimum to qualify for testing. They stop giving stripes after 20 so it doesn't get silly. Each white stripe represents being qualified to test (classes attended) Each red…

Our TKD colored belt tests are pretty much just physical: An extended warm up. Paddle targets. Poomsae. Sparring. Our Black Belt testing is four tests, plus a running endurance test, plus there is a work book/binder. There is a written test at the end as well. The binder involves hitting check marks for healthy eating,…

Off topic, but I love when people walk past my office and eye my belt rack and trophies/medals. lol.

My favorite part is how in that two page article, there is no recipe. Do you.... bake them? Do you put the peanut butter on both sides? Did she dip them in the powder or make the defatted pb with water first? There's no quantities. No ingredient list beyond "something about apples and two flavors of pb fit". ?

Tonight is double sparring class for me. 2 hours of sweating in a foam helmet! And I wonder why I'm worn out by the end of the week. I'll be assisting with class before then too. I had to look up 1 step sparring because I never heard of it before. Sounds like it's biggest with ATA and traditional styles that don't wear…

Thats how i do all my round houses :) chamber, pivot, snap. Starting with the chamber means you can change the type of kick last minute if you need. From chamber i can axe, cut, or roundhouse. The problem with head kicks is that even if you don't drop your guard, youre still prone to being knocked over by a strong kick (or…

white yellow orange green high green blue high blue purple high purple red high red brown high brown bodan (6 months) black belt Each belt is 3 months except for bodan which is 6 to 9 months depending on the testing schedule.

If you're ever in upstate NY I can use my pull to let you do a few drop in classes. Our school is truely massive. Two brothers and a cousin each run approximately 3 schools each. We have an intramural tournament twice a year that fills a highschool gym to the brim larger than most state competitions I've been to.

Yes. The biggest variations are WTF and ITF. WTF is the "olympic" Tae Kwon Do that is mostly sport based. When you see TKD at the olympics, they're doing WTF sparring. Sparring is different, The poomsae are different, and I think some of the curriculum in general might be different (we practice very little grappling in our…

Sounds like it might be ITF, but you should definitely ask which form of TKD you're learning.

They had me sparring the black belts almost immediately after I got my yellow :) You get better by sparring people who are better than you, so I'm surprised they don't have you do it. Maybe they're taking safety first, but experienced fighters should be able to practice self control and work with you. Are you WTF ITF or…

150 a month for unlimited classes, plus testing fees etc

At our school we are taught a few things to teach, 1, assertive commands/barking out orders etc. 2, demonstrating each move with them till they get it, and 3, correctively moving their bodies/stances. We do two weeks of the first half of the form then the full form after. Lots of repetition. Our students are pretty good…