Made green belt. Couldn't train much ahead of the test due to a bruised rib, but did ok! The kids up for red belt did not pass. I'm glad to...
The poll is going to skew negative. It is in the injury subforum. I clicked on it-- but I've got some bruised ribs to rest up. MA practitioners...
Checking in, one year later My boys have both made 6th gup green and are now my senior! Very porud of them. I remain a 7th gup Orange. I have...
So we've done and passed our first testing. Even attending the all ages classes with the little guys, I feel continually challenged. Looking...
Re-Reading this, it sounds to me like I've absorbed this idea that many schools overemphasize rank or use it mainly as a money maker. The only...
As a newbie with a busy life outside of MA, I can report that MA is a real challenge. Rank can be a scaffold- a framework to help work through...
Yes. Questioning and disparaging are different things. Training at all-ages classes alongside my young sons, I can see that they were...
Ok, so I wrote that, but it's funny just how motivated I felt and proud of a month+ of work I was when I got my 9th gup this week! :bow1:...
Well written. I'm a beginner white belt in TSD, training alongside my young sons. There is not a great emphais placed on belts in the Dojang...
Thanks, stubbyd. There may come that day that the boys do not wish to train. I will not force them, of course. It's funny-- the first of...
34 year old New Englander here who just started training in TSDMDK with my 5 and 7 year old boys. It's amazing how quickly (4 trainings so far)...
Thanks-- like I said, I was only repeating some things that I read over the past week as I've tried to educate myself about the history of the...
Why not go and observe some training time in a dojang and see what seems best to you. I'd bet your own observations and judgement will result in...
Totally new. Studying in West Haven under Kwang Jang Nim Charles Ferraro. I'm 34, and have signed on for a year of training with my two boys,...
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