03/16/2020
“The Martial Arts” “What Motivated You?” “Your Perception” “Black Belt Fact” At the age of 15, my journey began studying TKD from Master Kim, and was enamored by Bruce Lee movies in the 70’s. From the beginning my goal was to earn a black belt. 15 years later after studying TKD, Jujitsu & Kempo, my journey was still drawn to other Black Belts at seminars and the different systems and culture taught. Like many others in our training, the love for many martial art movies only grew, to recently discover that many of these martial art actors were only actors, many of which never reached the black belt rank. I will share some short facts but encourage you to enjoy your training journey for all the facts and culture you can get. My 1st influence Bruce Lee studied under IP Man, the Wing Chun system doesn’t attain rank, but Lee’s skills were at a stratospheric level. The Wushu Guru, Jet Li was a child prodigy he began training at a very young age, at 8 years of age was defeating adults. Wushu systems don’t attain rank. These were the exceptions the Famed Jim Kelly, Steven Seagal, & Chuck Norris trained in recognized systems attaining Black Belt Ranks. Keanu Reeves, Jason Statham among others were great athletes in hockey, wrestling and even dance and became actors that love the martial arts. Find your passion learn everything you can and keep training
