General Choi Hong-Hi reccomends walking barefoot in snow and doing cold water training. He writes: "By taking cold showers and baths or exercising on snow-covered ground in bare feet, students build tenacity and pride." And next to these words are an image of a man doing a heaven hand behind a waterfall and three boys standing waist-deep in a lake, both of course, cold. I hope walking barefoot through snow to get to a freezing cold lake to do a side kick in front of a waterfall on top of a wet log that's halfway in a stream is considered doing cold water training! With the extra benefit of walking barefoot through snow three times! I didn't really do it to build tenacity and pride; in fact I'd actually forgot what the benefit of cold water training was; I actually did it more for the cool picture at first. But after doing that, I was pretty proud of myself! The water didn't seem too bad, and though the snow was really cold, I managed to walk through it!(But if my toes could talk, they probably would have yelled at me for letting me get them so cold!) Here are some pictures. Also, I want to make sure that I don't scare off any potential students- cold water training is absolutely NOT REQUIRED to take Taekwon-Do -it is not like we go out with Master Bosse to train in waterfalls every class! So if you want to take Taekwon-Do but don't want to make your feet cold, it's okay, the cold water training is just an optional thing that individuals can do for fun if they so choose.
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