Officially a 3rd dan!
The congratulatory announcement went up today, and two of the candidates who tested for 1st dan/poom were presented their interim black belts. The way we do it is that when a student is promoted to black belt, they are given an instructor’s old belt to wear until their personally embroidered black belt is presented to them. It is a neat tradition.
Anyhow, within our dojang, my title is now Sa Bum. 1st dan title is Kyosa, 2nd is Kyosa Nim. 3rd is Sabum, and 4th is Sa Bum Nim. It’ll be at least 5 years before I get to 4th dan.
But as far as my training went today, we’ve got a phrase: “Sometimes you are the windshield, and sometimes you are the bug”. Today I was the bug. I wasn’t feeling great at the start of Hapkido, just tired and creaky. During class, I wasn’t doing things well. Teaching the intermediate class went fine. But in the advanced TKD I didn’t do as well as I should. And now my back is locked up. Oh, well.