I train Tae Kwon Do for 13 years now and I am finally moving to the black belt. My exam is within 15 days and I am pretty nervous, because I will have to break a stack of seven tiles with a punch, a wooden board with a jumping side kick (jumping over three colleagues bending over) and another wooden board with a jumping front kick (the board will be around 7.5 feet / 2.3 meters high). I will have also to perform all forms (poom sae) from all belts, two-step sparring (16 drills), three-step sparring (25 drills), knell sparring (9 drills), demonstrate advanced hand and leg techniques and also several matches, including at least one 1x2 match (i.e. I’ll have to fight against two other guys) and one 2x2 match (i.e. me and a colleague fighting against two other guys). The whole exam will take 2 hours or more.

This week my master gave me the picture below, the quality isn’t so good because it was taken with one of these cheap analog cameras. But the technique is really awesome. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it. This kick is called kawi tchagui (“flying scissor”) and I am performing a front punch at the same time.

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I’ll try to take some pictures during my training and also of my exam, of course, with my digital camera and post here.

By the way, I destroyed my lousy DVD player using Tae Kwon Do kicks and punches.