For Huy, Hai, Wu, and Kim Every sport has its unsung heroes, and though I am new to the way of Taekwon-Do, I have found those heroes among the brown belt students. They are, in my opinion, subjected to the most stress, doing the hardest work, and getting far less credit than they deserve.
Brown belt is a difficult rank to hold.
By that point, the student knows he is in love with his craft, but is not yet certain it will reciprocate. Of course this is not the highest rank he could achieve, but such emphasis is placed on it, especially in American culture, that it almost seems like a test for adulthood, the dividing line between those who are worthy and those who are not. In the martial arts scale, the brown belt is like a teenager, given many of the responsibilities of an adult, but few of the rewards. Complicating this for the brown belts I am acquainted with is the fact that they are teenagers, with all the confusion that is common to the age. Brown belts are seldom given the luxury of concentrating on their own skills.