Taekwondo - 15 months

Had another appointment with my instructor last week [entry]. He asked me if I wanted to go for black belt grading next May. I declined, not least because the idea of being a black belt only 15 months after I started training seems crazy. Also, my training would become pretty intensive; whilst this itself doesn't bother me, any break in my training (like, for example, being sent on site for a month or two[6]) would make the May grading practically impossible.

So, I will be grading in October 2006 instead. 20 months seems like a much more reasonable number, as I'm told the average time to black belt is two years.

Something that surprises me is that the other brown belt was not offered May; instead, during his own meeting, they only discussed the October grading. I had assumed that we would both be offered this, but apparently not.

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Last night I broke black and orange boards together for the first time. According to a supplier of the same boards that we use in class, that's equivalent to a 2.25" wooden board and a 7" wooden strip. That's pretty cool.

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[6] Which seems very likely in the new year.