Your Martial Artists Bucket List!

[sensei8]

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?

[ps1]

I'd like to learn Portuguese and visit Brazil.

[Lupin1]

I want to fight someone MMA style. Huah!

[username13768]

I would love to train in Indonesia and Okinawa. Not necessarily in that order.

[Martialart]

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.

[sensei8]

So far so good! Thanks for the posts!

Remember....MARTIAL ARTS RELATED bucket lists!

[Jeffrey]

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.

[DWx]

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!)

[Lupin1]

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.

[Martialart]

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.