Conscious Competence

Consciously competent people are students who have the knowledge to perform particular skills, have extensively trained at performing the skills, and are proficient at the skills. However, the skills do not yet come automatically; they still require conscious thought to perform correctly.

These are senior color belts and junior black belts who have trained enough to be confident in their ability to perform techniques properly, but still have to concentrate to perform the techniques properly. Still using the punching example, some aspects of their punching technique have become automatic, but they still need to think about some things, such as hip snap.

Consciously competent people need years of intense training to move to the next level.

Unconscious Competence

Unconscious competent people are students have developed their skills to the point that they can perform them without conscious thought. The skills have become instinctive.

Unconsciously competent students are senior black belts who have years of training under their belts. They instantly execute technically perfect punches automatically without thinking about the process. They have achieved the "do" of Taekwondo, the true goal of every black belt.

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