I see some new black belts continue to train and others who drift away within six months of receiving their belt. I suspect this is partly because the latter group probably viewed earning a black belt as their goal--the finish line--and moved on to other goals away from the dojang. I'm sure there are other reasons as well, but I suspect some did not develop new goals within Taekwondo, and that contributed to their departure.
I would like to know what goals you encourage your first dans to pursue, and likewise what goals were most important to you as a first dan.
Thanks,
Carl
I've seen this beefore, in my dojang the groos of the people is children and some kids, afther 3 years of training achieving belt afther belt and reaching black belt they felt a circle is closed and afther that sadly training is the same thing with little improvement, it seesm classes are designed to reach black belt level and then..... nothing new, so some kids feel boring the training, it's the same thing day afther day.
Of the last examiniation in past july several kids drop tkd are are doing something else, for example little ulio who is a 8 years old who was training soince 5 I gess, now is training soccer, Regina a nice cute 11 years old girl (very gifthed) who now is doing dancing class, and another girl who made his firsth poom too some two yeara back and dhe never returned dojang.
Yes yjhere some kids that keep coming to training like the Tapia brothers, very dedicated kids but as you mention something hapes with others kids that they got boreda baout the same thing afther 3-4 years of training.
Bailando solo says something interesting, we must see another goals like maybe weapons training, os competing training or self defense, in my case I have put my goals in teaching men my way of doing TKD and doing some judgin in the tournaments and offcourse learning new stuff from another sources like crosstraining,internet and meeting another martial arts students or senseis.
One of my goals is to train in poomse and compete in my city in poomsae oe even go to regionals, this is something I want to do sadly sambonim is to dedicated to kids that as no time to coach me in the poomsae.
There are sometimes we need to adjunst or make changes inthe way we train to stay in TKD training and make this funny and try to enhance our capabilities.
I would like to have inside my dojang poomsae/self defense only classes and some kind of weapon classes too but this is something I know won't happen so I will see in another places where I can find whay I'm loooking for.
Manny