WHAT HAPPENS AFTER REACHING BLACK BELT?
Upon reaching black belt, a student will realize how much more there is to learn and continue their own training, advancement and individual improvement, while they also pass on what they have learned to new students. This is part of the circle of Tae Kwon Do — passing on all the training once learned by teaching new students who may one day do the same. This keeps the art of Tae Kwon Do alive for many generations and is the principle on which Tae Kwon Do and the Martial Arts have sustained themselves for over 2000 years. The knowledge and art of Tae Kwon Do is a gift that is meant to be shared with others who strive to learn and to better themselves.
Upon reaching black belt, a student will realize that black belt is not an end, but a beginning. While a black belt often helps instruct other students and beginners, they also recognize how much more there is for them to learn and continue their own training, advancement and individual betterment, while they also pass on what they have learned to new students. Teaching others teaches a student many things about themselves and their own technique. By analyzing and teaching a technique the student is also analyzing their own abilities and makes them become better. This is part of the circle of Tae Kwon Do. Of all the training learned from an instructor, upon reaching black belt, a student becomes the teacher, or assistant, and gives that knowledge back to the program in the form of teaching new students who may one day do the same. This keeps the art of Tae Kwon Do alive for many generations and is the principle on which Tae Kwon Do has sustained itself for over 2000 years. The knowledg
