When you're a beginner, you start with a white belt. As you accomplish certain skills you earn stripes and then finally you move on to the next color belt which for me will be yellow.
This past month I earned a red stripe for working on Intensity skills. You have to do the moves and techniques strong and with focus. You just can't throw your arms and legs around like wet noodles.
We are also training with weapons already. I'm learning how to use nunchucks. The beginner ones are foam and plastic but I found out the hard way (like when I popped myself in the mouth) that foam and plastic can still hurt.
Man, I felt like crying but I was able to suck it up and keep going.
Everyone says I'll laugh about it someday but right now I don't find my big, fat, swollen lip very funny!
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