WHY DO SOME LEAVE WHEN THEY REACH... SBN Ramón Navarro

WHY DO SOME LEAVE WHEN THEY REACH THE BLACK BELT?

Sbn Ramón Navarro

Hello everyone and my greatest wish is that everyone is well as well as their family and their students, well what seems to be that the pandemic will not go away at all so we have to continue taking care of ourselves. I hope you enjoy not only the magazine this month but my article as well. All of us who read this magazine are people interested in martial art without learning it or we are instructors or teachers. There are many who will not read this magazine, El Camino, which we know is about martial arts since they do not know it, but in general, all of us who for A or B reason have started to learn a martial art generally did not know about that martial art. Over time we begin to like what we are learning and we decide to endure the hard training of each lesson or class and we already know that to get to the Black Belt there are other tests to pass. How do you pass that exam? Learning what is due and polishing it enough that, even if it is not perfect, you must be able to act well enough that in addition to being able to use what you have learned in combat, these are in classes or in competitions, in addition to the forms if that martial art has them. or if it does not have them, what is indicated must be learned. Many students want to continue learning their martial art but they are not willing to propose to fully comply with what they are learning and if they do not abandon, they lose focus with the excuse that they have a lot of time in the rank in which they are and they do not include them to do test. What turns out to happen? What are they leaving? What happens when they leave? Well, they usually go to another martial arts school and join that school to see if they can rank up fast there to get the Black Belt. What can happen? Well normally they are still there and if not then they continue in this cycle until they get accepted as these students want and if not then they leave the martial artist way of life. The truth is that they focus on making an effort as they should, time will pass and they will obtain that blessed Black Belt that is the maximum belt to achieve. This is how in school I will use my case to give it as an example: there are 6 years in primary school and then there are 6 more years to graduate from secondary school and that is how I graduated. In order to continue growing, or rather, to progress, I must go to university, and at university I find that almost all careers last 4 or 5 years, plus an additional year

to prepare my thesis and be examined on everything I have learned up to now. finish my degree by obtaining my bachelor's degree. Well, there are now technical careers that take less time, but let's say they all last two years. At the end of those two years I have the option of changing careers at the university but we will not approach it that way for martial arts. But we can say that when one finishes those two years well, I have never known that in universities throughout Latin America or anywhere else except in the United States of America they call it College and this indicates that if you pass the third year of your degree, it means that

You will complete the course without specialties, that is, you reach the Second Dan and when you manage to continue and finish the course you are a graduate of that course and in martial art you were a Third Dan. I will not dwell on names of titles etc. About martial arts since in this article we are not going further to talk about there being more Dan ranks. So in many Academies they are from KungFu, Karate or Koreanas since I am a Black Belt or Dan Degree in TaeKwonDo as well as TangSooDo as in HapKiDo I will not specify a specific one. Well, I believe the student who, when he enters a martial school, was born that day on the path that should be for life, but that student focused that the maximum is to reach the Black Belt and when he arrived, he did not really focus correctly on what a martial art nor do I value all the time, effort and commitment to which I dedicate all that because it ends up being like in school that when you graduate it is goodbye forever. I don't know, but I think if those students would have been taught that the Black Belt is only the true beginning of learning in the martial art it is from the first Dan not to reach this degree. They should have been taught that this learning is not for competitions but for self-defense and this is good for life on the street since the street is the way of life. That self-defense will be learned is something additional despite the fact that it is the first thing that is learned and it seems to be the only thing that there is in this principle, but it is like when children are children who, growing up when they reach the age of teenagers, already believe that they are big and we all know that this is not the case until they themselves realize how much of this at the time and the bad thing can be if they reason about it late as it happens in life that there are 40-year-olds who have the attitude of adolescents. Let's teach this topic to our students that if, for example, a person from the beginning of teaching and the number of students over time reaches 10,000 and of these those who reach the Black Belt without giving that degree or any other before From that stage they have managed to be, let's say, 450, but after 40 or 50 years with that number of Dan degree students they will focus on what these levels mean in life, they will not be like 75 active ones. This is not like it is said that only an approximate number is the one that manages to reach the Black Belt, but it teaches that the student who makes an effort and participates as much as possible on a daily basis, if possible, per week, each month and adding many years is sure to reach that stage. For how things are today regarding the transition we went through due to the Pandemic, the good thing is not to let ourselves stop, follow the path of the Do and progress focused on sharing this approach with our students. Blessings. I am expanding the HapKiDo Song Moo Kwan style through the International Song Moo HapKiDo Federation in the area of Latin America and the United States of America. If you want to learn this HapKiDo method, you can write to me on WhatsApp +507 67808222 and let's see if we can achieve what you want.