1st entry

This is my first blog entry. My name is Chris and I have been taking Taekwondo for about two years now. An interesting thing that Taekwondo (and many other martial arts) has is the belt progression system. At my school it takes about two months to progress up each belt rank (with adequate pauses for preparation after attaining certain belts) but different schools probably have different time rates for ascension in the ranks (white, yellow, high yellow, orange, green, high green, blue, high blue, brown, red, high red, jr. black, and black at my school). One of the other interesting things about Taekwondo is the culture it contains. By taking this art I have learned much about Korean culture such as numbers and terminology as well as knowledge about self defence tequnices and Korean philosophy. Taekwondo is a fun sport that I plan to enjoy for a long time.