GUP #14&13 together - White Belt to Yellow Stripe I and II

At Tuesday night's class, April 23rd, 2013, I was presented with my Double yellow Stripe Belt.

The "Ceremony" (lack of better words) is that you bow to the instructor, then turn away facing the class, go on one knee, remove the belt. Once the belt is removed, you then face the instructor (Sir / Sabum Nim), and he puts the new belt on you. You are then presented with your certificate of Achievement, shake hands, and bow. You are then asked to face your class, and he announces your new belt rank. The class then bows to you - an acknowledgement /respect of sorts.

The warm ups then began, and we started with patterns again.  Once we got to Chon-ji... I did the pattern, and Sir joked again with me, "only did this once eh?" .  I was asked to join Shane again to fine tune the pattern. 

I'm very happy knowing that I am able to go forward and do this martial art. I think its because of have alot of determination, (in everything in life) and yes I'm very hard on myself, but I'm a sponge right now... and I need this outlet.

I will told at the end of this class that I would be testing for full Yellow belt in June (beginning). 
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PATTERN (POOMSE or TUL):  SAJU-JIRUGI 4 corner punch (7 X 2 = 14 movements) and SAJU-MAKGI 4 corner block (8 X 2 = 16 movements)

DEFINITION:

4 corner punch & 4 corner block

STANCES (SOGI):

Attention stance (charyot)
Ready stance (jun-bi)
Sitting stance (choom-si or annum sogi)
Walking/front stance (gunnun sogi)
Fighting stance
L-stance (Niunja sogi)

BLOCKS/STRIKES:

Punch (jirugi or charugi) low, middle, high
Low outer forearm block
Low knife hand block
Inner forearm middle block
High rising block- outer forearm

KICKS:

Front snap kick (ball of foot)
Roundhouse kick (top of foot)
Side kick (foot sword/blade or heel)
 Axe (pick-shape) kick- back of heel
Double roundhouse kick
Double side kick

THEORY:

Pattern definition
Ho w to make a proper fist
How to bow
Count to 10 in Korean
Know tenets
Basic commands
Know oath
Definition of Taekwon-Do
Explain positions & weight distribution on basic stances

(est. time on white belt rank - 1-2 mths for each pattern)