Black Belt Korean Karate

This book is for the Tae Kwon Do students who have already spent two or more vears of continuous, intense formal study in a recognized Tae Kwon Do school. They have completed the beginners’ levels of Tae Kwon Do and have reached that great day when they pass their Black Belt examinations and proudly wrap the Black Belts around their midsections for the first time. The students are done with the preliminaries: they are now ready to learn Tae Kwon Do.
Everything up to the passing of that Black Belt test was background material to prepare the students for the refined and specialized training they will receive as Black Belts. Our first book, Korean Karate: The Art of Tae Kwon Dao, set forth the exercises and techniques leading up to the Black Belt. This book will take students from the time they are awarded the Black Belt up through the third degree Black Belt—taking an absolute minimum of six years but probably closer to ten years, Those six to ten years must represent applied effort too, not just a casual dropping into the Tae Kwon Do class from time to time for a friendly chat or an occasional workout. In Tae Kwon Do, as in every other endeavor, the rewards are directly proportional to the effort put into it. Students who thought they worked hard to get the Black Belt are in for a surprise, because the real work starts after the Black Belt. They have moved into a higher plane of activity where everything is more intense.