Tae Kwon Do

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Benn doing Tae Kwon do for over 4 years now and am getting ready to grade for my red-black stripe belt, this means in 6 months I'll be grading for my black belt. Thing is a lot of the guys who I train with love MMA and as such the instructor spends a lot of time teaching ground fighting, along with some of other Tae Kwon Do drills that I can't stand. The best thing we do is one night a week is just purely devoted to boxing training and a fitness circuit, both of which I love.

I pay £50 per month to train and it will be £20 for my red-black belt, then to grade for my black belt it costs £200. So to get my black belt it's going to cost a grand total of £520.

On top of Tae Kwon Do I'm into weight lifting and absolutley love it, so I'll have one sport to do, but I'm thinking of joining a boxing gym as I love boxing training and the fitness that comes with it.

One thing it stopping me though I hate leaving things unfinished and if I pack it in before I get my black belt thats exactly how I'll feel, but I'm loathe to fork out over £500 for something I'm not bothered about.

Come OcUK opinionize me! what would you do?

 

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Bingo.

If you have no desire to continue training after you have your black belt then this suggests to me that it doens't really mean that much to you other than a convenient point to stop whereas it should be the complete opposite.

If I were you I would just stop now before you waste any more money on it.

I'm staring down the barrel of my TKD 4th degree black belt grading next year...

You and the other guys who've said the same are correct it's not the end at all, and is pretty much a convienient place to call it a day. Our training T shirt have the saying "A black belt is just a white belt that didn't quit" on them

Ideally I'd like to get to the black belt so I can say to myself I've reached a certain standard, but it's just it's going to cost £520 to do it. :/