# 90 Days to Black Belt — What It Actually Takes

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Tim Ferriss
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tzbz3Bzco
- **Дата:** 21.04.2026
- **Длительность:** 5:08
- **Просмотры:** 3,287
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/49442

## Описание

Daredevil Michelle Khare lives life to the extreme in Challenge Accepted, amassing more than 6 million followers and more than 1 billion views. Across the show, you'll see Michelle attempt everything from Tom Cruise’s Deadliest stunt to Harry Houdini’s water torture cell to trying to earn a black belt in taekwondo in only 90 days.

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of your episodes when you look back — and you can't say all of them. That's disallowed. That answer is no. No, no good. No fly. Which if you were starting, if you did not have a YouTube channel, but you had a thriving career, so you had some money, which of those you can like pick two or three of the experiences that you would pay to have looking back — that I would do again in a heartbeat? — Do again. Or you're like, okay, I only get to pick two or three. But like I would absolutely pay for these. — Okay. — If I had to — I would pick first of all the black belt challenge. So as this video I had 90 days to try and get a black belt in taekwondo. Part of this came from a personal passion of having done all of these stunts and working with a lot of stunt performers. All of them come from worldclass martial arts backgrounds. And I realized I had never actually taken the time to learn a martial art from the ground up and that it was lacking in my performance and mental fortitude and I wanted to experience that. So what do I do? I make it a challenge so that I can devote my whole life to it. — And that experience changed me. When I look at clear before and after, you know, from having put your body through a lot, there are moments when you have a photo before and after. My body changed. But there are moments in life when you as a person change before and after. And that can be captured by a photo always. — That was one of those for me. getting to study with master Grandmaster Simon Ray, one of the greatest martial artists on planet Earth, took me under his wing and did what most instructors would have never done, which is believe in me and push me to try and actually get a black belt in 90 days. And we're talking about politeness. I think martial arts has taught me all of that. when you bow to the mat before you step on when you yes sir yes ma'am everything it might sound gimmicky to someone on the outside but it does become a practice and an automation and a way of life and that's something I'm really proud of as a now black belt and grateful for it I would pay to do that again and in fact I am because we're doing a sequel so I am paying to do it again trying to qualify for nationals this year with mastery so I'm very excited about it. I would recommend it to anybody. The other one I was going to say that I would pay to do again for the experience I had ultimately, not when I was going through it, is the Houdini challenge. — Yeah. So for that I had six weeks to learn how to hold my breath and pick locks to attempt Houdini's water torture cell which famously is hanging upside down in a glass box filled to the brim with water escaping a series of lockpicks with one breath of air. And that I would say is probably among the most physically challenging — challenges I've done. Free diving, breath holding is a level of athleticism that is so bizarre to me because when you're in a workout class and it gets hard, they say, "Keep breathing. This is the one time you can't do that. — You're holding your breath. " So, I was having to learn how to push through that. Ultimately, I got to 3:30 and most Navy Seals is like 2 3 minutes is pretty good. Houdini's was best time was also 3:30. But on the production side, it was a really fascinating challenge because it was the first time we creatively designed our own obstacle and solution. So in the beginning, we spent months trying to connect with other magicians on Earth who own a water torture cell. There are not many. — Yeah. And ultimately we came to the conclusion of designing our own which was really incredible and creatively challenging. How do you create a glass box that can f be filled with so many gallons of water and maintain the structural integrity when there's a person inside and function with all the locks and the hinges with water as an involved substance. It was a huge engineering challenge for our team and I'm really proud of the final result because both of those things are things I would have never guessed that like 2016 me would have been able to do. First of all, holding my breath that long. Second of all, taking the creative liberty to design something that was inspired by a work of history but also our own.