I feel the same way. I've been doing tae kwan do for four years now, too, and I would never have thought when I started out that I could do some of the things that I do. Like you, I am fairly certain I would seriously damage some one if I had to use it, but I know that I'm really just a journeyman at it. I test for my black belt July 22. That's when the 'fun' really begins.
Minimal requirements for our testing:
100 each jumping jacks, push-ups on our knuckles, crunches, axe kicks, round house kicks, side kicks, snap kicks
100 round house kicks without putting the foot down, each leg.
One minute standing in round house kick position, each leg.
Three katas, plus one weapons kata (I do the bo.)
Breaks: reverse punch, knife hand strike, fore arm strike, jump straight back kick, hook kick
Produce the sparring combinations for the last three belt levels recalled just by colour and number, i.e,. Brown Senior 3 means I need to do step ahead, 180 spin, round, straight back, tornado.
Then, of course, there's the sparring. . . . it starts out one on one. Then two on one. . . then three. The stated purpose is to exhaust you against fresh fighters and see how you do.
The testing takes place over the course of two days and altogether takes about 12 hours. I'm going to die. The good news is that he doesn't call people to test for black if he doesn't think they're ready. I can do all these things, but doing them all for hours straight is going to be a killer.
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Date: 2006-06-22 12:24 pm (UTC)Minimal requirements for our testing:
100 each jumping jacks, push-ups on our knuckles, crunches, axe kicks, round house kicks, side kicks, snap kicks
100 round house kicks without putting the foot down, each leg.
One minute standing in round house kick position, each leg.
Three katas, plus one weapons kata (I do the bo.)
Breaks: reverse punch, knife hand strike, fore arm strike, jump straight back kick, hook kick
Produce the sparring combinations for the last three belt levels recalled just by colour and number, i.e,. Brown Senior 3 means I need to do step ahead, 180 spin, round, straight back, tornado.
Then, of course, there's the sparring. . . . it starts out one on one. Then two on one. . . then three. The stated purpose is to exhaust you against fresh fighters and see how you do.
The testing takes place over the course of two days and altogether takes about 12 hours. I'm going to die. The good news is that he doesn't call people to test for black if he doesn't think they're ready. I can do all these things, but doing them all for hours straight is going to be a killer.