Notebook Tips
Here are a few tips to keep in mind about the content of your notebook. Remember, your notebook isn't just for your notebook's sake—it will help you to keep track of things.

• Anything an instructor says 3 times must be put in your notebook—this is a class rule.
• Keep you notebook up to date. You never know when the instructors might want it. Red belts—high red belts in particular—this is must.
• It's probably a good idea to divide your notebook into sections, so that you or an instructor can easily find something.
• A rule at Flyers is that red belts should always have a question written down on a 3x5 card and kept in their notebooks for future use.
• Keep track of how many hours you teach, as this is important for black belt testings. Whenever you teach, write down the date and how long you taught on a 3x5 card and put it in your notebook.
• It's a very good idea—especially for upper ranks—to always have a few class routines written down on a 3x5 card in your notebook.
• Use your notebook when teaching. If you have kept up with it, it will prove to be your lifesaver.
• If a black belt makes a specific correction to your technique, write down a reminder in your notebook.
• Any answers to questions you ask in class should be put in immediately.
• Be sure to keep track of everything that's required of you for testing by writing it in your notebook. Not only will all 5 of your step sparring routines be in safe keeping, but for the rest of your TaeKwon-Do career, you will have step sparring ideas for all of the belt levels. (This is more important than you think.)
• If you see something you like in class, like a Ho Sin Sul move or a step sparring routine, go ahead and write it down in your notebook. It will make future creative processes a lot quicker.
  

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