I'm gonna come from the heart here, so if anyone is going to flame me or ridicule me for it, I ask you to please think about it before you do it.
I remember when I was a white belt and I had a red belt teaching me my first set of one-step sparrings. My instructor came over to him and corrected him on something. Then, two minutes later, he did it again. Now granted, the corrections were deserved, but I will never forget when he looked up at me in choon bi and said, "being a red belt is really hard."
I heard him, but I didn't really understand.
When I received my 4th gup promotion, my Sah Bum Nim said to me, as he was placing the second piece of tape on my green belt, "I'd tell you to come more, but you come every night. I'd tell you to try harder, but you try your hardest every night! All I can say is slow down....you're a red belt for a long time and being a red belt is tough."
Again, I heard him, but I really didn't understand.
.........I'm starting to understand now........
It is getting hard to keep motivated and I am finding flaws in nearly everything I do. I do not know if that is the "negative energy" that is surrounding me because of my frustration, or if doing the same thing over and over again is taking its toll on me. I completely understand that this is the rank where I am supposed to get all of my skills up to the point where I deserve to be a black belt, and I have all intentions of hanging in there....
But it IS tough! I was just wondering if there was anyone else out there that is currently experienced feeling this way, or if anyone out there got their black belt and remember feeling this way and if anyone had any advice on how to help me get thru it.
I am sure I will get thru it, I just know there are some wise people out there.
Thank you!
I remember when I was a white belt and I had a red belt teaching me my first set of one-step sparrings. My instructor came over to him and corrected him on something. Then, two minutes later, he did it again. Now granted, the corrections were deserved, but I will never forget when he looked up at me in choon bi and said, "being a red belt is really hard."
I heard him, but I didn't really understand.
When I received my 4th gup promotion, my Sah Bum Nim said to me, as he was placing the second piece of tape on my green belt, "I'd tell you to come more, but you come every night. I'd tell you to try harder, but you try your hardest every night! All I can say is slow down....you're a red belt for a long time and being a red belt is tough."
Again, I heard him, but I really didn't understand.
.........I'm starting to understand now........
It is getting hard to keep motivated and I am finding flaws in nearly everything I do. I do not know if that is the "negative energy" that is surrounding me because of my frustration, or if doing the same thing over and over again is taking its toll on me. I completely understand that this is the rank where I am supposed to get all of my skills up to the point where I deserve to be a black belt, and I have all intentions of hanging in there....
But it IS tough! I was just wondering if there was anyone else out there that is currently experienced feeling this way, or if anyone out there got their black belt and remember feeling this way and if anyone had any advice on how to help me get thru it.
I am sure I will get thru it, I just know there are some wise people out there.
Thank you!
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