Hell, what's the point of being on an Internet discussion board if you can't indulge the pleasure of one-upsmanship every so often!
So assuming the standard 'test for X dan X years after the test for X-1 dan', she should, at say 17yo, be getting ready to test for her 5th dan. Time marches on eh?
. She'll have her 7th dan when she's 34... nothing like an early start, eh? No surprise there—boxers train for very close range fighting, which is where most streetfights happen to start, if a ton of research on what Pat McCarthy labelled 'habitual acts of violence' is on the money. Of all practitioners of combat activities, they seem to be the main ones who accept the unpleasant but realistic presmise that your attacker will be close in, and striking at your head and other high-valued targets with the intention of rendering you unconscious or dead, if possible. If more TKD schools organized their curricula around that premise, as advocated by 'applied karate' advocates like Iain Abernethy, Geoff Thompson, Peter Consterdine and other high ranking karateka some of whom also happen to have extensive experience as professional bouncers, the nature of TKD training would, I'd predict, lead to a lot fewer BBs for practitioners who can't tied their own shoe laces yet, let alone the belt itself. I think the McDojang belt-mill phenomenon, while separate from, is still linked to the dilution of the TKD curriculum to the point where its roots in hardcore street defense have become completely lost in many schools.
