
Martial Arts
Level Up↑ and Step Down↓
-A military philosophy
0. Entry #level (entry point)
1. Beginner #level (someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started)
2. Novice #level (same as beginner, but one who is not yet very familiar or experienced in a particular subject)
Enthusiast #Levels
3. Amateur #level (an unpaid semiprofessional)
4. Professional #level (a paid amateur)
The body kinetic intelligence of martial arts is just one out of seven
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Linguistic/verbal
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Logical/mathematical
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Visual/spatial
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Musical
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Bodily/kinesthetic
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Social
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Self-awareness


Original Club Badge
where I got my Koryo Tag
All religions in the world have a calendar in common.
They all emerged from four components:
The sun, the moon, the mountains and the stars.
South Korea raised and cultivated me.
-Korean tigers are said to inhabit the Taebaek Mountain range spanning over both North & South Korea,
but please no more tiger philosophy for me.
-I am Blue Panther, investigate your totemistic beliefs!


70,000,000 taekwondo practitioners worldwide are considered as a niche.
-There can be only one!
Modified Club Badge
by Tommy Oxholm Nielsen
My Bagua Octet Junior Belts Ranking
(No Tags or Snippets)
Entry level: A robust Gi for close combat self-defense vs. a high-speed Dobok. Soft belts vs. Hard belts.
Short-legged karate trousers vs. long-legged taekwondo trousers.
Beginner: Short stance/Long stance → Yellow belt Sino-korean Kung-Fu class adaptation (sunrise)
Novice: Horse stance (prep warrior for hilly terrain endurance) → Orange belt Shaolin class (sunset)
Intermediate: Brown belt. Wood breaking. Tree Trunk (family tree vision)
Combat stance with fist blocks: The way of the hand (kwon push-ups, fist and spear-hand strike) → Green belt Warrior class (tree Crown)
Combat stance with knife-hand (broken fist) blocks: The way of the foot (roundhouse kick, flying kicks) → Blue belt Ballerina class (heaven)
Indigo belt: The way of the foot, advanced kicks, scorpion kick, etc. (rainbow vision)
Tiger stance: Skill•|•consolidation (build up speed) → Red belt Tornado class (earth)

Tradition
Originally, there was only the white belt. Not washing it reflected on your anciennity.
The vision of a colored belt system began with Japanese Judo, sporting
a six-grade colored kup system and a six dan degrees for a black belt system.
The Olympic committee decided that a 10 kup and 10 dan system amongst all martial arts should
standardize and replace all philosophy and traditions.
Basically, two #visions for a belt system emerged:
-A rainbow vision with an indigo belt
-A family tree vision with a brown belt
Trigrams
Yeon-Mu floor patterns
Trigrams originated as hexagrams in a Chinese Dynasty with the purpose to encrypt messages.
☰ Trigram for Heaven or Sky (乾 Qián)
☱ Trigram for Lake
☲ Trigram for Fire
☳ Trigram for Thunder
☴ Trigram for Wind
☵ Trigram for Water
☶ Trigram for Mountain
☷ Trigram for Earth
This belt designation is specific for the South Korean martial art Taekwondo. It represents the South Korean Flag.
The red color represents Earth, the three unbroken trigrams represent heaven.

This belt designation is also specific for the South Korean martial art Taekwondo. Both colors are represented in the center of the South Korean flag. It means something like Heaven and Earth are about to re-unite.

△ Trinities △
1. Blocks (Low, middle, high)
2. Punches (Low, middle, high)
3. Kicks (Low, middle, high)
1. A man can't stand - He can't fight!
2. A man can't breathe - He can't fight!
3. A man can't see - He can't fight!
1. Joonbi - Ready stance
2. Sijak - Begin or start
3. Baro - Return to starting position
Taebaek: Virgin Warrior Class
Divine Tiger Stance
Don't mind this old fool, who doesn't know how to even show off a high block.
-Make it look so delightful
it seems not to be of this earth!
-Sorry mother, I chose the path of a monk,
no grandchildren shall you have.
Mindfulness
{DEF}: A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly
acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
Instructor's counting voice
1. Strong (Lightning-fast stance. Loud, short duration)
2. Yielding (Thunder-rolling. Loud, long duration. Adepts yield with a Ki-hap shout!)
3. Resting (No emphasis)
4. Joyful (No emphasis)