Monday, October 08, 2007

Taekwondo update

Went for my grading yesterday (Sunday) and am happy to say I am no longer a white belt! Have passed and gotten white belt with yellow tip... Next grading is about 3 months from now...
  • 10th kup (white)
  • 9th kup (white with yellow stripe)
  • 8th kup (yellow)
  • 7th kup (yellow with green stripe)
  • 6th kup (green)
  • 5th kup (green with blue stripe)
  • 4th kup (blue)
  • 3rd kup (blue with red stripe)
  • 2nd kup (red)
  • 1st kup (red with a black stripe)

The nine degrees (dans) of Black are organized into skill levels:

  • 1st-3rd dan (Novice) with the title of Assistant Instructor (Boo-sabum)
  • 4th-6th dan (Expert) with the title of Instructor (Sabum)
  • 7th-8th dan (Master) with the title of Master (Sahyun)
  • 9th dan (Grand Master) with the title of Grand Master (Saseong)

3 comments:

Mohamad Imran said...

Man, almost makes me feel like taking up taekwondo again! :P

LX said...

weird, when i did TKD it had a different grading system. we had yellow belt, blue belt, red belt, eac h of which had 3 stripes to attain. then black with 12 dans.

start on white, i did 2 gradings and got my yellow 2 stripes before dropping it :P

Sharon said...

I heard there have been changes to the whole TKD system... maybe that's why, Alex!

else yours is just different, cos the one Imran did last time when he was a kid is the same grading system as the one I put down haha