Tag Archives: Grading

Black Belts for Life

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise Attaining a level of mastery in an art is no mean feat and requires discipline, dedication and determination. They say out of every 10,000 people to start a martial art only 1 will ever stay the course and make it to Black Belt. Whether the statistics […]

Overcoming Adversity

To grade, or not to grade? I was nervous, I sat on the mats, wiped the sweat from my brow, closed my eyes and visualised every move of my Poomsae over and over again. I knew every turn, stance, strike, I was more than prepared but that monster called self doubt creeps in and coupled […]