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I understand you're looking for active practicioners, so I apologize if this post upsets you. But I thought I'd post about my experience.
About 15 years ago I started studying Tae Kwon Do. Spent about three years as a student, going to class twice a week for about 2-3 hours per session. I also went to summer sessions which were 8 hours a day for 5 days. We'd get up at 3am and practice. By the time I finished, I'd earned the third gup (blue belt, red stripe), only about 18 months away from a black belt.
I ended up quitting to become more active in Boy Scouts (through which I later became an Eagle Scout). But TKD taught me two great things: stamina (physical and mental) and ethics. I'll never take back the years I spent studying it for anything. I even go back to the school I studied at occasionally to say hello to the masters and tell them how they affected my life.
That said, I don't remember the moves we had to perform at our rank tests, or any of that stuff. I don't think that was the point, anyhow.
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