If things get too tough, just stick near the facilities surrounded by adults.
Stay with peaceful friends and generally people who are assertive but quiet enough to not provoke unnecessary attentions. That will also help you to integrate more. The more lonelier you are, the more grouped people will try to pick on you. Ideally you should run to the very end. It doesn't matter about humiliation and other stuff, if you can physically run, then do so. Fight without fear when you can't run. Physically. Not emotionally.
You quote 'if' they follow you. Have you tried it? Sometimes our imagination protects us but sometimes it worsens things. They must have something in stakes to be that fixed on you. Normally they only choose the weakest targets. e.g. if you walk away, they'll pick the next guy closest around. He/she may be smaller and more vulnerable than you are. If that person also gets away or the incident sparks the school do give consequences that's balancing the deed. They get tired.
Modify the way your communicate. Do not be head on confrontational and saying the opposite of what they say without monitoring their emotional responses. Try to bend the topic to make it sound like you are not willing to be engaged or change the topic altogether as an excuse to leave the situation.
They may follow but after a while bullies will get tired.
Give me a break. You sound like a character from a cartoon or an anime. "I'm so powerful but I don't want to hurt the innocent".
Why don't you just act like a normal person? That usually works for most people. And trust me when I say that you are not invincible or some supreme @sskicker. You don't have skill or power. My best educated guess is that your head and your ego is so bloated because you've spent time in a crappy McDojo. Had you been in an actual good school you would have gotten your @ss kicked a few times and that would have put you back on planet Earth.
My tip for you. Find a new school.
Well the idea of a black-belt not having much control is a little foreign to me in some ways but I also realize that is one of the problems that plagues martial arts today is the standards under which students are taught and promoted. I will tell you one of the traditional methods for developing control that we used in Japan. In the dojo they had a four inch steel pipe embedded in the floor in concrete. At different times in class it would be one of the stations that students would circulate through and students would practice strikes, punches, and kicks at ever increasing speed and power and that post had a way of being very unforgiving if you were not careful and did not exercise control and just touch or graze it rather than make hard, direct contact. You can take the same approach with your heavy bag workouts also-you don't need to hit the bag full force every time, making hard, solid contact. Instead after hitting it full force then see if you can repeat the same technique at full speed and only touch it or only land with maybe 50% of the power on that technique. Going back and forth from full speed and power to something less and then something even lesser still like just touching it and then going back to making hard solid contact is one of the ways you learn to control your techniques and really judging your distance better also. I would start with incorporating this into my training and workouts for developing my power and control better if I were you.
Your quote: "...and I'm a little worried that there are going to be lots of fights, and I might be involved in one of them...." In school? Where do you go to school? You must be fighting over every stupid little thing you can find. Are all you guys that insecure anymore that you have to slug out everything? Anytime you throw the first punch when someone follows you, you assaulted someone. That is very different from self defense and is against the law and can end you in a heap of trouble. As a black belt they should have taught you that at your martial arts school. Ask your Taek Won Do teacher to have a class about the legal ramifications that come with fighting and when something is really self defense.
Talk to your guidance counselor and suggest they incorporate some special classes at your school about how to be secure enough so you don't have to slug out everything. After all once you are out of school and have a job you won't be able to resort to slugging out everything anymore.
If, and that's a huge IF, yu are a black belt in anything, the training you have done will give you the strength to walk away from any confrontation. You have been trained to protect yourself, but you seem to indicate that you will be the instigator just to show off how good you think you are.
If you don't know how to control yourself now, you should hand back your black belt until you can prove you can control yourself.
You are just aware of all of the reasons to not fight. Yes, you can seriously hurt or kill someone with Taekwondo or any martial art. That is why you only fight if absolutely necessary.
Do not fight out of ego or rep. Avoid violent people, arrogant people, instigators, and scoffers. Stay with the positive crowd. Avoid the drunkards and druggers. Be aware without being afraid. Do that and things should be easier in high school.
And pray.
First of all, you're not "invincible" no matter what fighting style you study or how long you have been a black belt. High school is difficult for a lot of young people because they have "adult" teachers and principals trying to impose adult rules, regulations, policies, and values on young people whose brains are not as developed or mature. When you are under 25, the prefrontal cortex of your brain (responsible for your decision to take risks or to choose good judgment) is not fully developed. Regardless of how physically "mature" the guys and girls at your school may "look", their brains are still very much like children's. In fact, risk taking behavior among teens whether it takes the form of sex, drugs, or fighting is particularly troubling to parents, teachers, and other adults because many high school students are like "overgrown children" and when they fight amongst themselves, a teacher can get injured trying to break up a fight (which they are required to do by law). Several teachers have gotten suspended or even "fired" for putting their hands on a teen to break up a fight in middle schools or high schools.
I have friends and family who are teachers and principals. Their jobs are hard enough when the students "aren't" getting into fights which can cost the teachers their jobs. If the teacher does "nothing" they get in trouble, but at the same time, if the teacher breaks up the fight, they "also" get in trouble. It's a lose/lose for any teacher or adult employee at a school as far as "student fighting" is concerned. I am asking you to exercise good judgment when you're at school. Don't look for fights, even if some big, dumb bully is "just asking" for you to bust his nose into the back of his skull.
Troll alert!
Even as a "junior "black belt" (you are only 15 years of age at best), you should have learned some control after 4 years of training even at the McDojo you studied at.....
win the war with words. if they come after you try talking your way out first.
I'm going into the ninth grade, and I'm a little worried that there are going to be lots of fights, and I might be involved in one of them. Right now I am a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and I have been training for four years. I know that I can take on most people, I'm just worried because I don't know my own strength. I spar in class and it is very hard for me control my power. I'm just afraid I can seriously injure someone or worse, kill them. I know killing them sounds a little bit exaggerated but I'm serious. I'm a big person and I'm afraid of what I can cause with my own power. All I need is some tips on controlling. If there are any experienced fighters out there who know anything, please help me out. Also I would like to know how to avoid a fight. I was already taught to walk away, but what if when I walk away they follow me? What do I do then? Run? I don't think so, I would use my martial arts because I was put in a state were I have to use it. But is there anything I could do before using my skills?
