1st Dan...

[hemi]

Well I’m 33 now, I will be testing for purple on the 19th, so I am guessing I will test for 1st Dan about the time I hit 36. I really hope to test for 2nd before I hit the big 40. (I have to be ready for these young wiper snappers that will be coming around to pick up my daughters) LOL

 

[TimoS]

(I have to be ready for these young wiper snappers that will be coming around to pick up my daughters) LOL

You mean this isn't a scene from your home?

 

[pstarr]

I started outas a child - but I had one student who achieved the grade of first-grade black belt at age 60!

 

[Flying Crane]

I was 16 when I received my first black in Tracy's kenpo, the only system in which I have earned a black belt. That was about 19 years ago, and I am still first black, having drifted to other systems and not trained in Tracys in any way that would justify additional rank beyond that.

In retrospect, I think I earned it too young and too soon, but that is the way of it. My instructors made a decision, and that is that. I hope that with the training I have received since then, I have made up for any deficiencies in skill and understanding that I had at the time and deserve the rank now.

 

[Brandon Fisher]

I was 18 started training at 8 years old have been training 22 years this year and will start my 23rd year in November.

 

[bluemtn]

I'm 30 now and just got my brown belt (just below black) a month ago. I have another year to go to test for my black belt, so I'll be 31.

 

[karatekid1975]

I didn't test for it last fall (as I thought in my last post). I had surgery last fall, two injuries and failed my 1st gup test (the first time around). So I'm skipping the next BB test (just recently came back to training after the recent injury). So, I might test in Dec or April. Depends on how my leg heals, and if the timing is right. So that will make 6 years (in dec) training and I'll be pushing 32 (Jan).

 

[IcemanSK]

So that will make 6 years (in dec) training and I'll be pushing 32 (Jan).[/quote]

Do ya ever notice, that the older ya get ya say things like "pushing 32" rather than "almost" or "nearly" or "turning". I'm Andy Rooney

 

[tradrockrat]

3 months after I turned 20 and it caused a scandal even though I had been training since age 8. As Bando (as per the ABA) did not give belts to children (at least when I was one) I officially went throught the ranks in two years - three years faster than the minimum required to test for black. These rules no longer exist as Bando has become more prevalent (read - comercial) in America. This summer marks my 26th year in martial arts.

 

[Ceicei]

I don't have mine yet, but I am guessing I will get it in a year or two.

- Ceicei

 

[morph4me]

Got mine in 1993 when I was 39, now my goal is to be the longest continuing practicing shodan in my association.

 

[The Kidd]

Got mine at 41, I started training back in my 20's took a 15 year lay off and then got back into it full force in my late 30's with my kids and am still going strong.

 

[TraditionalTKD]

Started training in Tae Kwon Do at age 14, and received 1st Dan at age 16. From what I've read of Won Kuk Lee's opinions about proper age to train, this is about right. I think the teen years are the best time to start, because your body has not yet stopped growing, and Tae Kwon Do can help mold it into the way it should be.

 

[matt.m]

I was awarded my honorary black belt a few weeks ago. I have my dan in Judo. I easily passed the oral part of the test. I am physically not able to do the physical aspect. However I was a brown, dan promotable when I retired from Judo competition.