Grand Master's Rhee Ki Ha, Hae Man Park, Edward Sell (founder of U.S. Chung Do Kwan), Charles Serriff, Hwang Kwang Sung, Jhoon Rhee,
Nam Tae Hi, Kong Young Il, Park Jhoong Soo, Bin Sing Huan, Kim Bok Man, Hwang Chae Pok, Lee Beom Jhoo - to name just a few, there are many, many others.
a grandmaster of the art and extremly dangerous
No, i am a first degree black belt and it actually promotes your growth as long as you practice on a regular basis.
Black Belt
It is called Shim Jun and translates to begin planting seeds for the future.
There are 10 dans or black belt levels in Taekwondo. There are a few people who hold the rank of 9th dan, but being promoted to 10th dan is nearly unheard of, at least in modern time.
Bodan is a rank of skill and experience just before black belt. The bodan belt is half red and half black. It sometimes called a temporary black belt.
H. U. LeeI'm not quite sure.... but I do know that my taekwondo teacher is a 9th degree black belt. I don't know if he's the first though; I doubt it. There are about 10 - 20 (guess) 9th degrees in the world, maybe even less.
red belt means 'Danger, cautioning the student to excersise control and the opponent to stay away'. Btw, this is correct because i am a black tag in tae kwon do.
Myong Namkung Mayes earned her ninth-degree black belt in December 2007 at the age of 53. She is the highest ranking woman by kukkiwon. In 1987, she founded the U.S. Taekwondo Center in Springlake, North Carolina.
Chuck Norris has a tenth degree black belt in Tang Soo Doo and an 9th degree black belt in taekwondo from the Kukkiwon (world Taekwondo headquarters in Seoul, South Korea) and a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu!
Elvis held a Blackbelt in American Kempo from Ed Parker.Elvis started in shotokan, earned his first black belt in chito-ryu, would dabble in tae kwon do.
Yes especcially when you get to weaponsPartially, i am a Black belt double gold stripe and my opinion is that it is boring until you are at least green belt