Personal Essay: Journey Into The Black Belt Club

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My taekwondo journey started when I was 10 years old. I was very shy and I had been getting into trouble a lot. So my mom thought that putting me in taekwondo would help. At first I wasn't sure that I wanted to do it, because I didn't think it would help me. But after a while I started to feel like this might be the thing that I love. The instructors had noticed that I was really committed in taekwondo and invited me into the Black belt club as an orange belt. Knowing that I had started to like taekwondo I accepted the invitation. Black belt club was harder than being in the basic program, they went at a faster pace, and did more challenging drills and kicks. The Black belt club offered more kinds of classes like Tricks and Kicks, wrestling and weapons classes. …show more content…

I also attended the Tricks and Kicks class and learned to do a cartwheel, a regular roll, dive roll, handstand, round-off, one handed cartwheel, tornado kick, and a butterfly kick. I had help the first couple of weeks in the Black belt club, but then got the hang of it and began to meet the pace and get better at the drills and kicks. After 15 more months in the Black belt club, I was then invited into the Master’s club as a white purple belt, and I had also become a rising-star. Now the Master’s club was very hard at first, they do lots of warm-ups and their pace is even faster and more complicated kicks. But I got used to it after a couple cycles. In Master’s club every month on a Wednesday we had a wrestling coach come in and teach us to wrestle. Later in my taekwondo career I became a mentor, which is where an instructor gets to mentor a student who wants to be in the Black belt club. We had to go to all of our students classes and help them for the whole cycle, then when the next cycle begins they don't need us anymore and they’ll go to the black belt club classes by

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