Any martial art worth the name should reserve black belts to people who are very capable and have worked damn hard at it. I'm not saying she isn't/hasn't, I'm just saying it should be hard. I know with TKD, black belt is a pretty huge deal and I think it's a mandatory 1 year of study from the last color belt until you can even be considered to test for first dan black. If it were too easy it wouldn't mean as much.
Is the testing there open? In our TKD school anyway, black belt testing is private, just the student and the masters, and lasts from 6 to 10 hours. I've had single hour classes that I was incredibly exhausted from; I can't imagine going for 10.
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Date: 2007-08-15 05:25 pm (UTC)Is the testing there open? In our TKD school anyway, black belt testing is private, just the student and the masters, and lasts from 6 to 10 hours. I've had single hour classes that I was incredibly exhausted from; I can't imagine going for 10.