Swift Current Christian Taekwondo promotes new black belts

Swift Current Christian Taekwondo promoted five students as new black belts on May 13. It takes hundreds of hours of training and dedication to get to these various milestones.

From left to right: Tate Unger (2nd Dan), Callie and Logan Ebner (3rd Dan), Jeremy Widdup (2nd Dan), Lucas Bulin (1st Dan).

The term “Dan” is commonly used in Korean martial arts to denote a black belt.

Literally, the word translates as “level” or “stage”. The highest belt level in the World Taekwondo system awarded to living people is 9th Dan.