Posted on 12/23/2009 3:57:24 PM PST by civilwar2
Apparently, when the President was in South Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak handed him a dobok (Taekwon-do outfit) and presented him with a blackbelt. This is an honor that takes the average student at least a year and a half. It took me around two years for my first degree of blackbelt and ten years to achieve my current rank of fourth degree blackbelt.
The original Taekwon-do started by General Choi splintered into two main groups: the World Tae Kwon Do Federation(WTF) and the International Tawkwon-do Federation (ITF). I belong to the ITF, which is the traditional group and follows down from General Choi. It has a focus on the art of Taekwon-do. The WTF is the sports version of Tae Kwon Do and is the type you see when watching the Olympics. It follows
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Black belt?
That’s very insensitive and racist.
Yes, LOL, Eddie the Eagle.
But I was thinking more like this kind of fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-amNJqWpEo&feature=related
Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys reminds me of Eddie the Eagle.
Too bad it too is fake. Black belts are not given, they are earned
I sure wouldn't give him any lip.
Nice tag line, by the way.
October 25, 2000 At a press conference, Maddy Albright hands Kim Jong Il a basketball autographed by Michael Jordan. They then pick up champagne glasses and do a photo session.
To this day, any foreigner who receives a visa from the North Korean government for the reason of tourism, is forced to go to this shrine museum of Kim Jong Il where this basketball is prominently displayed.
No doubt the American taxpayers will be spending millions to house this black belt in the Obama memorial library in Chicagoland or Hawaii.
Yoinked from Travis McGee!
And like it.
So could I. (wink!)
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