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Tae kwon do for Girls

By: Kalynn Amadio One evening, I was changing in the women's locker room before my adult tae kwon do lesson.

The final kid's lesson had just finished so there were two girls in the locker room changing to go home. I'm an instructor so I recognized them as they have been in my own kid's tae kwon do class. It just so happened that one of the girls is in the same grade as my son. They go to school together.

We were the only people in the room and she was watching me get ready. I pulled my things together, smiled at her and she started talking to me.

"Are you DJ's mom?"

"I am," I said.

She waited a few moments and I thought that might be the end of our discussion, when suddenly she said,

"Man is he lucky."

Okay, now I was interested. Like most boys, my son doesn't tell me very much about his school day. So I assumed she had some terrific piece of gossip that I just had to know.

"Why is he lucky?" I couldn't help but ask.

"He's lucky his mom is so strong."

It took me a moment to process what she was saying. You see, this girl had been at my 3rd dan black belt test last October. She witnessed my break test where I was the only woman in our school to break 2 concrete paving blocks standing on end like dominoes, no one holding them. It was a pretty amazing thing that I practiced with pads for weeks in advance. I didn't try the real thing until the moment of my test, so even I didn't know if I could pull it off until it happened.

She was at the test because she'd worked to the bodan level which is just before black belt. She was participating in the test to earn her first black belt, a great achievement for anyone. But at that moment, she looked at me as if I walked on water.

And for just a moment I think I could have.

I don't think of myself as a hero. In fact, it makes me uncomfortable when my skills in martial arts are applauded. And yet, as I think upon my childhood, there were so few female competitors a girl could worship.

Good role models are hard to find. That's why I'm modestly willing to tolerate a bit of hero worship if it means helping a girl make her dreams come true.

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