Her progression in 90 days makes the Karate Kid and Cobra Kai Beginners to Blackbelt level training timelines a lot more realistic.

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For anyone interested, she finally managed to break the brick and achieve her blackbelt on day 264

If you invest 10h a day you can get to 900h in 90 days. If you invest 3h a week you need 6 years to get to this number.

She's a beast.  I love how seriously she's taking this.  It's not insulting to the art, or anyone else who has gotten their black belt.  If someone feels threatened that their belt's integrity is in danger by this, they haven't watched the whole video.

THE REAL BLACK BELT WAS THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY

Michelle needs to be Protected an all cost 😅 She really is one of the gems of youtube. She went from youtube creator to straight up making movies now lol

"The belt don't define you. You define the belt" I like that quote Seth. Especially that I often see black belts who doesn't act like black belts. So you can either see a white belt with a skill level of a green belt or a black belt with a skill level of a yellow belt. The color doesn't defy your skills but you yourself does and how much effort you put into earning that belt

You need to react to her recent “I trained like a samurai” video. About 1/3rd of the way in, there’s a short clip of her FINALLY breaking the brick and earning her black belt. The clip caught me off guard, I cried like a baby.

spoiler: the fact she made it to grading before or on day 90 proves the theory alone some one with the same dedication could totally do that so she proved concept alone which is really all she needed to do. Apart from being exceedingly proud of herself and getting the belt on day 264 her efforts show with dedication and hard work anything is possible

Seth, please, I really need to go to bed right now. A 1:30 hour video? There goes my sleep. Thanks a lot

She did everything but break that brick... give her enough time and she will do so. She really did put full effort into trying to reach black belt but was humble about what happened.

When I did my 1st Dan test, the brick break was the scariest thing to me. But when the moment came, I figured the only thing between me and earning my black belt was the brick so either it would break or my hand would. There really is a big mental aspect to it. Now I can break multiple bricks no problem.

Me at the beginning..."Who is this girl? How disrespectful for trying to get a Black Belt in 90 days!?!"🙄
Me at the end of the video...."What? She didn't get it? 😭

Funny story about my yellow belt test. A few black belts were in attendance, helping judge the tests. They had brought a few bricks, with a couple left over afterwards. The black belts were all taking turns trying to break on one try, and none of them did. I'm pretty cocky at the time, having just passed my test, and half-heartedly jokingly asked if I could try. They said ok. I broke that friggin brick with a hammer fist my first attempt. After the initial shock, my teacher started taking my training a lot more serious, private lessons, and overall grooming to become a teacher myself. I am currently president of our federation. My point being, confidence is key. My teacher always said repetition builds confidence, practice does make perfect. And stick with it! Don't give up because its difficult.

She placed the judges staring into the sunlight during the test. That's a 100% Budo move.

For the record yes she has incredible commitment however I just wanna point out how impressive her main instructor’s commitment to train her is. All I gotta say is I’ve never seen an instructor get down on the floor with us when he says to do pushups lol

As a Taekwondo black belt and a purple/brown shotokan black belt I very much enjoyed this video and her process as well. She showed so much understanding of the beauty of martial arts and the journey. I do feel it was fast but also agree with you sensei seth that she has crammed so much into the 90 days but also that she has the understanding of what shes doing and like you said. Some people who have done this for years still struggle to have the understanding and knowledge shes obtained in 90 days.

This woman is amazing.  After watching a few of her videos she 100% commits herself to everything she does.

In a study at Japan University in 1986, they found that kiai during a punch resulted in 10% more power. Interestingly, they found that using kiai after the arm/elbow had been extended, rather than before, gave the greatest results. It seems intention to kiai activates the motor neurons.
- 📚 Source: [I Investigated If The "Karate Shout" Is Really Necessary｜Kiai 気合](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gA-Y1LMmo)

For the breaking, she should have been conditioning her hand from the beginning