andyjeffries
Senior Master
I'm canvassing opinions from my Taekwondo friends on here (amongst other places as there are people I respect in many venues).
This year I hope to be promoting students to poom rank for the first time ever. They will only get official poom certificates from the Kukkiwon, but I wondered - do you make your poom students wear poom collars and belts, or let them wear a full black belt. I'm leaning towards giving them the official Kukkiwon style half-red/half-black belts, but I see that the official WTF MNA in the UK (along with a lot of schools in the USA) gives out full black belts.
I don't want my students to feel that they are getting something less than they would get elsewhere (and a black belt is an obvious achievement to their friends and family whereas a half-red/half-black belt take more explaining - particular when compared to a red belt with a black stripe through the middle which is 1st Kup). Thoughts/opinions please...
This year I hope to be promoting students to poom rank for the first time ever. They will only get official poom certificates from the Kukkiwon, but I wondered - do you make your poom students wear poom collars and belts, or let them wear a full black belt. I'm leaning towards giving them the official Kukkiwon style half-red/half-black belts, but I see that the official WTF MNA in the UK (along with a lot of schools in the USA) gives out full black belts.
I don't want my students to feel that they are getting something less than they would get elsewhere (and a black belt is an obvious achievement to their friends and family whereas a half-red/half-black belt take more explaining - particular when compared to a red belt with a black stripe through the middle which is 1st Kup). Thoughts/opinions please...