May 9, 201016 yr What's your bucket list? Martial arts related please. What is it that you want to do before you die?And/or....What place would you love to visit before you die? **Proof is on the floor!!!
May 10, 201016 yr I'd like to learn Portuguese and visit Brazil. "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenius."
May 10, 201016 yr Since I spent a large part of my life traveling around the world, I really don't want to go anywhere before I die. If I don't go a hundred miles from my house for the next 40 years, I'll be happy with that.But I would really like to be a well-respected Taekwondo instructor. The best teacher I ever had was in Wado-Ryu, and he was a third degree, so I would like to be a third degree Taekwondo instructor. I would like to develope a psychological approach to pattern training, and maybe write a book about the nobility of the martial artist.That's my bucket.
May 10, 201016 yr Author So far so good! Thanks for the posts!Remember....MARTIAL ARTS RELATED bucket lists! **Proof is on the floor!!!
May 10, 201016 yr Achive my black belt in Karate. Take up Judo again. and for the final bucket list item... I would like to be able to avoid our Head Instructors left hook just once.
May 10, 201016 yr Win a world championship gold in sparring Travel to Korea to train. Be in it long enough and be good enough to get my 7th dan (master rank!) "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius
May 10, 201016 yr Oh yeah, getting my black belt in something would be a good one, too. It's kinda crazy since I started karate when I was 8 and got my 6th kyu, quit when I was 11, started again when I was 13 got back up to 6th kyu before quitting again when I was 14, started again when I was 22 finally got up to 5th kyu and now I'm going to have to leave again in a few months to do AmeriCorps. To actually get a black belt in something after all that would be AWESOME but seeing as how I don't plan on staying in one place for more than a few years at a time for the foreseeable future, I don't see it happening.
May 10, 201016 yr Oh yeah, getting my black belt in something would be a good one, too. It's kinda crazy since I started karate when I was 8 and got my 6th kyu, quit when I was 11, started again when I was 13 got back up to 6th kyu before quitting again when I was 14, started again when I was 22 finally got up to 5th kyu and now I'm going to have to leave again in a few months to do AmeriCorps. To actually get a black belt in something after all that would be AWESOME but seeing as how I don't plan on staying in one place for more than a few years at a time for the foreseeable future, I don't see it happening. That sucks. And I know exactly how that goes having been in the military. If I were your instructor, I'd have you keep a journal of your daily training. Then every couple of months you'd send me a video of your Kata for whatever belt (and you would have a video with how the katas should be done). And if your journal was up to date, and your kata looked right, you could be awarded a grade based on that.I did almost my entire B.Sc. through independent study. There should be some kind of true independent study for martial artists.
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