do'nt you think learning Taekwondo kills a lot of time?

Question

my instructor says- 3 yrs

Answer 1

3 year blacbelt? Definitely a McDojo.

My Grandmaster said that the colored belt ranks are where you learn to learn. You start really learning when you reach 1st Dan.

It was time I never regretted.

Oh for those who have noticed my past-tense references, I am not currently training. I have the knees of a 60 year old from my training (I was a bit enthusiastic and not that intelligent for my early years) and I am currently looking for an art that can accomodate joint deterioration in my area. My lovely part of Ohio has zilch in the Dojo department.

Answer 2

Taekwondo does take up a lot of time. It really depends on how much progress you make and sometimes health and other issues get in the way like work or even exams. Nevertheless, investing three years could get you a black belt if you progress quickly and work hard. Traditional Taekwondo is slightly different from the kind of Taekwondo you see being practised in say the Olympics. The traditional folks and methods tend to build their skills from the "inside-out" i.e they place emphasis on ethics, personal development, values and self control. The Olympics or competitive type of Taekwondo tends to focus on sparring. My feeling is that both routes would require you to invest some time; but I guess the rewards would be immense.

Answer 3

u don't think like that taekwondo has a lot of skill spending time in
learning taekwondo is like a self defenses . each person in this world need to know some kind of self defenses .so spending time on taekwondo . think if tomorrow u are walking on the street a pick
picket takes away the peruse from u if u know any self defenses
it will be helpful to u it don"t mean 2yrs or 3yrs learn it

Answer 4

Kills a lot of time or Takes a lot of time to learn? Everything kills time.

Anyway, I took Taekwondo when I was stationed (in the Army) in Korea. I took it for 7 months and left a Blue Belt. Three years to Black Belt sounds kinda long, but depends on how aggressive you are I guess.
Good Luck.

Answer 5

I don't see it as "killing" time. To me killing time implies that you are doing nothing useful with your time. My son has been taking TKD for 2 1/2 years. He is now a deputy one black belt. I can't tell you how much its done for him in terms of confidence, self-respect, attitude, respect for others, reslience, determination, concentration, etc. in ALL areas of his life. And, I'll tell you what, when people find out that he's a deputy 1, nobody messes with him or his friends. My son is very short for his age and kids pick on him until he busts out a few moves. About 3 months ago the school bully tried to put him in a choke hold. Guess who ended up in the choke hold (hint: it wasn't my son). The bully isn't so much of a bully since that incident.

Yes, it takes time to learn TKD. But in 3 years, your going to be three years older anyway. You can either decide to do it and be a high ranking belt by then or you can decide to spend your 3 years another way and NOT have a high ranking belt. The choice is yours.

Answer 6

Without trying to sound all philisophical, you are simply looking for and end to training. There is not end, for most of us. There is only the journey. In three years you might achieve your black belt but then you have 10 more degrees above that and it will take a lot longer than 3 years. Few people make it past 3rd Dan and even fewer get past 5th. One you achieve you black belt, strat thinking in terms of decades, not years.

Good luck.

Answer 7

it doesn't "kill" time, as you say, it takes time....

even although i have never obtained a black belt, i can say this. if you are really good and put your effort into it, you will get a black belt in less than 3 years. i use mine example.

i started it when i was in secondary 4, continued on,even in ITE.

i even joined the ITE TKD CCA.

but after a while, i quit due to personal reasons. i had attempted to pass the black belt exam, but failed the grading.

i am a black tip(1/2 belt from black). it took me about 2 years to reach this standard. and it has helped me a lot.

Answer 8

yeah..it kills a lot of time so you can quickly start kicking some ***,man!!
...ok,now back to what martial arts are...if you don't love it then just save your money and time.Art is something you love to learn and improve along your life,it is something that is never over and can always get better because you do in your mind as well as your body.This as far as judo and wu shu kwan (chinese kickboxing) are concerned.If for Ttaekwondo it does not work like this,then I wonder if it s a martial art at all

Answer 9

It takes a lot longer than that if you actually want to get good. It's usually 3 years until your black belt, and that's actually where you just begin "really" learning. Contrary to popular perception, a black belt is simply showing that you're proficient in the basics, the different dans (or ranks) within the black belt lineup denote your actual experience and capability.

Answer 10

3 yrs? you would be REALLY good if you didnt sleep and trained every second of it. there are 36 months in 3 years, and you only train one month in 3 years.
lets see why I say that:
so, if you train 5 hours a week

thats 260 hours per year.
thats only 10.8 days of straight training per year.

over a period of 3 years you only have trained the equivalent of 32.5 days.

so you have only killed a month of your life in those 3 years by doing TKD (or anything else for that matter)

you would have to train about 30 years to ensure you had 3 years of solid training in there.