Thank you all!!
privateer, thats not good man, but I have a feeling you should be able to pick it back up again now, if not you could always study hapkido, it is somewhat intense, but once you've gotten used to the system and what not, there is not as much kne work. not only that daun-jun (i cannot spell this, it is is korean for the fire charkra) o-ho works your lower body quite thoroughly. you shouldn't let that interfere too much!!
Arbiter, well congratulate your friend for me, and why don't you take up Taekwondo as well, the trick is finding the right school. TaeKwonDo is for
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Sir Blood, I think ronin is right, your association registers you once you've reached human weapon status, I don't think your desire to never register should stop you from practicing, get back into it, it is soo good for you! and thatnk you for the advice, I will look into your training techniques if there is one thing I really muct work on is my 540 and 720 spins as well as those pesky speed and control drills.
Ronin, My school is UMA Taekwondo of the Houston area, I study mainly at the Copperfield Dojang, but Icannot say anything farther about contacts info PM me for more, but we are associated with WTF and all our Masters are Kukkiwon certified, the director of the UMA dojangs is the father of one of the masters at our Copperfield school. I am proud to say I am not getting training that is too diluted with american culture.
Depending on when you started TaeKwondo will determine why you weren't allowed to test. I am currently 22 and I started studying shortly before I was 20. I have studied for over two years now and I attended very often. 3-5 times a week for more than 3 hours, I even worked there for a few months. In korea and some american schools won't allow someone to test for black belt until they are the age of 16 then they can begin advancement in the Dan class. Otherwise they are only poom. perhaps that is what happened with you but I don't know. different schools do have different rules.
Ys our school does require the dan class to begin studying falling techniques and hapkido grappling techniques as well as it is expected of us to even attend the hapkido classes every once in a while. I enjoy hapkido, the class does not have
any children in it simply because of how destructive it is.
Kaya, you should g back to your dojo, don't stop...it seems like you really enjoyed karate, it could not hurt you to continue... well i suppose you must have tired of getting hurt, maybe you should work at your level and not so much above it... train hard but also train smart, well what should I say, I was not there you may not have been hurt training at all,...shutting up now...
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