the reasons I study are much more than the obvious: the feeling of victory leaving the ring with your hand held high, the health benifits, the feeling of power that comes from the rank. No there is much more to me than that. There is that feeling of acomplishment that comes after you ask youself "wow did I really do that?" I love fighting not beacause I like to hurt but beacause I like to perservere, knowing that you have to push through the pain and keep on keeping on to win, I look at my injuries as a testimony to how far I would go to get what I want. I love how that has appliet to my life even getting my current girlfreind I saw her and did all I could to get her just like I would to get that victory. I am proud to look at myself in the mirror wearing my traditional Taekwondo dogi and seeing that same gi covered in sweat after a hard days training. I love to help others learn and love to  spread this way of life which is what it is. I see my arts in everything I do no matter what it is patience pereserverance respect self control and confidence all have come from my arts and have changed my life forever I have gone from a punk to a kid you'd trust with your daughter lol. I have become a role model for my brother and sister and younger students but mst important of all I have evolved as a person.