Warachia said:
Thyunda said:
smearyllama said:
It's a pretty simple question.
I used to do Tae-Kwon-Do. I was a red-belt two-stripe.
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I've now completely forgotten what my school was based under. I know it wasn't GTF because I've never heard of it before. Is ITF the one the Olympics use? Because I trained under the other system, WTF. I had a friend who trained under the ITF system and it seemed like her school was more geared towards fitness and tournaments than self defence. I'm not saying she couldn't have defended herself with what she learned, I'm just saying that wasn't the primary focus.
Frankly I think her school was somewhat dodgy. Her instructor didn't seem to report to any kind of higher authority and he kept on making his students all kinds of outrageous promises that he never fulfilled, like arranging exchange programs where his students would be able to train in Korea for 3 months or something like that.
Please note the above is not an indictment of all ITF-based schools... I just remembered all that and kind of started rambling.
Anyway, yeah. Our progression was White > Yellow > Blue Stripe > Blue > Red Stripe > Red > 1 black stripe > 2 black stripes > 3 black stripes > Bo Dan > 1st Dan Black > and so on... up to 9th dan I think.
I know other schools have purple, brown, orange etc. but I'm not familiar with those.
Each step, even if we were only adding a stripe, was considered a seperate grade and you had to perform and pass your grading to be permitted to add the stripe.