Tae Kwon Do Black Belt Essay
(June 3, 2000)

The School

Luke’s Tae Kwon Do is the only martial arts school I have ever attended. I know people who attended other Tae Kwon Do schools, or study different martial arts’ and everyone has a different opinion over what is good and what is not. Since it is obvious that we would have different opinions about which school is better and which teacher is better, it is very hard to speak the truth. I think the main idea in any school would be the same, to get the most out of students who attend and try to make better people out of everyone because that is the meaning behind Tae Kwon Do, and all other martial arts.

How other schools or training centers do it is a complete mystery to me. Every school is bound to be different, and there is nothing wrong with that, because people are different and different people teach different methods. What would be wrong is if a school only taught hatred and the need to hurt others, or didn’t teach at all. Thankfully I was never taught to hate or to hurt someone else while sparring, and I know that Master Luke would never let anything like that be taught in the school. I know that there will be differences, and similarities between schools; I may even find out what they are in the future. But for now I do not know that the differences are because I have not had the chance to have been taught anywhere else.

In the perfect world, every school would be allowed to be different, yet still be the same. We do not live in a perfect world, but maybe this would still apply.

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