Black Belt

Black Belt

What it means to be a 3T Black Belt

It means many things to be a black let alone a 3T black belt. The most important ones to me are the dedication of everyone from black belt to white belt, another is the patience it takes to be a good instructor which all 3T black belts have, and the enthusiasm it takes to be there and do your best everyday.

The first thing I want to talk about of 3T black belts is the dedication. This very important and present in all black belts at 3T. This is important because without dedication almost no one would be able to reach the frontier of black belt. This is incredibly amazing thing because it also shows your students what should be present at all times and can give them the drive to keep moving up in the belt system. Another reason dedication is important is through the prep cycle it is very very easy just to give up and say you have to many things going on in your life and I can do it again in six months, I feel though that anyone can sacrifice enough time to be able to do prep if they are dedicated enough to do it. Some people feel they never have time for there social life while going through school and prep, but I can tell you it is very hard to hang out with your friends and do all the things you used to do. I feel this way at times to though because throughout the school year so far I haven’t hung out with my friends as much as I have wanted as being a Freshman in High School along with my honors classes and playing football, but I sacrifice my social life for now because I realize what I really want isn’t going to all the parties and   going to the varsity football games on Friday nights it is doing something I’ve been working on the last three and a half years. Getting my Black Belt. I realize to be a black belt I have to give a up some stuff to gain a lot. Another thing about dedication is having it ever present in all the black belts. An example would be always there to help lower belts and even higher belts how to...