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[Ross_Plus]

Greetings all,

I used to do Tae Kwon Do as a kid and got to red tab. When I come out to S.K I am looking to take it up again, I will have to start from scratch, and was wondering how long it takes for one to get a black belt out there these days.

I have heard its possible to do it within a year, is that correct?

Cheers

[the ireland]

I started it in march and got mine in November, two of the other irish people with me failed their tests, but one got theirs on the following test which was held in at the end of the following march!!

It's not too hard to get, as long as your remember the poom se, and to be honest you only need to know 6-7-8-9 cos they don't bother to test 1-2-3-4-5 for a black belt.

we were lucky as our master was fluent in English as he lived in the U.S for 4 years and he was also really fun, as were his wife and kids!

[Yaya]

Don't get back into taekwondo, it's useless.

[poet13]

If you're really only interested in how fast you can do it, it's easier to go to a sports store and just buy one. You can have anything you want printed on it.

I studied for about 7 years from about age 7. My instructor, Seng Seet, finally gave me a yellow belt after I knocked the stuffing out of his blue belt assistant student.

[coralreefer_1]

It is probably safe to say that I can speak with some authority on the subject considering my background. I am by no means some great fighter and would never claim to be. My passion for taekwondo always stemmed from what I considered the beauty of it, rather than its practicality.

But lets get it out of the way and save this thread from some of the typical posts.

Yes, Thai boxing beats taekwondos ass.

Yes, BBJ beats taekwondos ass.

Yes if a taekwondo person tried to throw a high kick in a real life situation he would get his ass handed to him/her

Yes if i person who was only trained in taekwondo were to be forced to fight on the ground they would almost certainly lose.

Now that we have gotten the obligatory comments out of the way, we may go on with some info that can answer the actual question.

The chances are, regardless of what you previous rank was however many years ago, you would likely have to start as a white belt. After this point, considering how much you remember and how proficiently you can actually do taekwondo, you may be promoted faster than normal, but that is at the discretion of the instructor.

That being said, Korea is the founder and king when it comes to the McDojang (a phrase commonly used to refer to schools that hand out belts easily) You would assume the exact opposite since this is Korea, the home of taekwondo, but that is just the way it is.

A black belt can easily be obtained in a year here in Korea, and the testing standards are pretty slack. That being said, a black belt represents a journey, and if your journey was an easy one, then your feeling toward that belt will belt will be representative of that.

Regardless of your intentions, you wont hurt yourself to get back into it.