Fall 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!

Today I he...

Today I helped out with testing as well as filled in all my extra credits so that's why there is high number on class on Friday 10/17/2014 :-)

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Today I we...

Today I went to Master Bercart's school (excuse my spelling) and had my first class there which was a sparing class, that I enjoyed because I met someone name Charley who was really good at sparing. :-)

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with a class and retaught this girl kwan sool and she was really fast learner so I was really proud. :-)

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Today I ha...

Today I had my last mentee session and my second to last mentor session with Amanda. I also helped out witwith the little tigers cladclass.

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with class, did a mentee session, took hyper pro as well as got a leadership two credit by leading warm ups. :-)

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile with my dog chip to the park and he kept sniffing everything he possibly could :-)

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Today I to...

Today I took the fiscal and written tests today for the black belt cycle. Yay! :-) Then I went and did the kicks for kids thing and had fun.

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Today I to...

Today I took a sparing class and got a leadership two credit

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with class, took a mentee session, a BBC class, and a mentor session: -) I am determined

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Today I to...

Today I took hyper pro and tried to help out with a class but it didn't necissaraly work out. O well tomorrow I do believe I have a mentor session to attend so wish me luck. :-)

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with the family class. As well as did a mentee session with Rachel. :-)

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile, wrote an essay, and did a lot of random acts of kindness.

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I couldnt ...

I couldnt talk all day as apart of my requirement for disability and I got really frustrated not being able to speak

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Today I ha...

Today I had a mentee session and this time I didn't miss my mentee :-) as well as a hyper pro, Saturday BBC, and sparing class.

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Today I ha...

Today I had a sparing class. It was nice and VERY tiring: -)

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Today in b...

Today in black belt class we were giving each other painful massages and we worked slot on staff form one :-)

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with class. I also had a mentee session but I was missing the mentee. Rachel didn't come so I don't think it counted : -(

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Toady I wo...

Toady I worked with my mentee Rachel and it was awesome. We worked on a lot of kicks and I think she can be tested on the kicks: -) I am proud

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Today I wo...

Today I worked on making duck tape wallets and phone cases to sell to raise money for the Levine's Children's Hospital, I am personally proud of them they are Halloween themed. :-)

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Today I ha...

Today I had a sparing class, hyper pro class, and Saturday BBC class. I also arranged for a mentee session with Rachel which I look forward to and did warm ups twice :-)

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Today I to...

Today I took a sparing class and it was really fun I spared Elizabeth and Ryan (my brother of course) and I got two sparing rounds : -)

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Today I ha...

Today I had my mentor session and we went over staff form (sorry if that's not what it is really called) as well as short stick. We even went over staff attack and deffened and I can't wait to teach Ryan (my brother) it cause I have a feeling he will enjoy it. :-)

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with the family class. I also did a member session with Rachel. It was really fun: -)

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile and decided it would be fun to walk around selling cotton candy for the charity money. Too bad there aren't many kids in my neighborhood so it dinidn't work. :-(

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile and decided it would be fun to walk around selling cotton candy for the charity money. Too bad there aren't many kids in my neighborhood so it dinidn't work. :-(

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile and decided it would be fun to walk around selling cotton candy for the charity money. Too bad there aren't many kids in my neighborhood so it didn't work. :-(

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile and decided it would be fun to walk around selling cotton candy for the charity money. Too bad there aren't many kids in my neighborhood so it didn't work. :-(

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Today I ra...

Today I ran two miles with my dog chip who has majorly been teaching respobsiblity, funny what u can learn from a pet. :-)

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Today real...

Today really enjoyed the seminar, it was a nice way to start of the day considering I have a huge pile of chores to do after. Anyway, I also had a mentee session with Rachel right before and I look forward to the next :-)

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Today I ha...

Today I had a sparing class and saw some pictures being taken. It was a rush to get there cause I had to run from my bus stop to my house to get to my moms car quick enough. Tomorrow I will have a mentee session with Rachel and I look forward to it though :-)

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Today I ha...

Today I had a mentor session and helped out with the little tigers class. I also got a leadership 2 credit and took BBC. I look forward to hopefully having a mentee meeting with Rachel this Saturday. :-)

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with class, I also took my second mentee session with Rachel. I hope I will be able to have another mentee session this Saturday. So that I will be able to have all the sessions soon:-)

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Today I ra...

Today I ran a mile and then ran around with my dog chip. I look forward to tomorrow because I should have another mentee session with Rachel. :-)

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Yesterday ...

Yesterday at the defy gravity thing it was AWSOME! I enjoyed a lot of it and the rest was just even more fun :-) I got to jump on things, and off things then ballence on other things. It was great and I would do it again.

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Today I we...

Today I went over Wong ho 1, staff form, basic form 3, korio, and my self defense in my mentee session. And I look forward to the defy gravity thing we are doing over the week end. :-)

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Tomorrow I...

Tomorrow I have my mentee session. I hope to review a lot. Such as Wong ho one and basic form 3. Looking forward to it. :-)

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Today I di...

Today I did have my first mentee session with Rachel and it was awesome! :-) We worked on the sparing combonations and a little with kicking. To me it was extremely fun because after the mentee session she started showing her parents what she learnt. :'-) I look forward to my next one hopefully next week.

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Tomorrow I...

Tomorrow I hope to have my first mentee session. I really do look forward to it, kind of want to see how it goes. Any way I need to ask for help on Wong ho 1 and special 3 but that's for my mentor. Which I might have tomorrow but I'm not too sure, but if we don't then I know I do on Thursday :-)

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Yesterday ...

Yesterday I had my first hyper pro class. :-) I then took a black belt class and a sparing class. I also got a leadership 2 credit for doing warm ups. We went over how we are going to do our self defenses; yellow through high red belt number one then in the same order we will do number 2 and so on. I also found out that I need someone to attack me for self defenses at testing. But now I am looking forward to my first mentee session. :-)

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Today I ha...

Today I had another mentor session with my mentor and we went over hopkito 1-10 and basic forms 1-3 as well as other things. I also got to help out with the little tiger's class; for the first time! I look forward to working with my mentee this Tuesday hopefully.:-)

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Today I ha...

Today I had another mentor session with my mentor and we went over hopkito 1-10 and basic forms 1-3 as well as other things. I also got to help out with the little tiger's class; for the first time! I look forward to working with my mentee this Tuesday hopefully.:-)

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Yesterday ...

Yesterday in BBC we reviewed the color belt self defences and I can garentee I need ALOT more practice. I also just ran a mile (up to the park and back) and saw my friend Ashly who thought it was cool I was selling cotton candy for Laviens Children's hospital. :-)

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This weeke...

This weekend I went on vacation in the Smokey Mountains and saw my friend Erin and her brother Ryan who we met on our last vacation. So me and Erin sold cottoncandy for 50¢ each by the bouncy house and we raised 11$ for Lavines Children's hospital :-)

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I took my ...

I took my retake written test today and got a 100! (happy dance) :-) I also had my second mentoring session and we went over high red and red belt self defense as well as Pal Chong. I still really need to practice though.

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Today I ra...

Today I ran my usual mile run with my brother. I also took my dog Chip for a walk and found out about someone in my neighbor hood losing their dog. :-(

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with class and technically got my first leadership 1 credit. I also took BBC and I to work on Pow Chong and red+ high red belt self defense. I got my mentee, think its called, and I really look forward to working with her. :-)

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Yesterday ...

Yesterday we had our black belt pretest. And today my legs were sore. :-) So me and my brother went over red belt self defense as well as what we didn't know on the written test. Hopefully we'll get it next time.

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Today my b...

Today my brother was doing soo many rolls we ended up doing a competition "who could role the most". I didn't exactly win. Oh well failing is just another reason to try harder. I shall win!!!!!!

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Today in B...

Today in BBC I learnt that I have been doing a self defense completely wrong. Though the good news is that I found out before the black belt pre test, so hopefully I wont make that mistake there. Then at the family class I had my first white belt challenge day and it wasn't exactly the same as I thought. (I thought I was just going to keep doing bochadon stuff and the only difference was I had to line up in the back) But it was different, all I could work on was white belt things. Don't get me wrong I really enjoyed pretending to be white belt all over again, I just didn't think that is what was going to happen. :-)

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Today I he...

Today I helped out with the class before BBC, I held the target for this group of kids working on their sparing combinations and then I went aside and helped another girl with her sparing combinations 1-14. And of course Black Belt Class came and I took it. A new person came today and she was already my friend so I hope she felt welcome, we were even self defense partners! We also worked a lot on Pogue ill and ee (excuse my spelling please) I should practice it some more but I feel pretty comfortable with it. :-)

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Todays cla...

Todays class, that I helped out in, I really enjoyed working with these two girls during kicking; drop kicks and ladder kicking up to 10 and back down. Then I worked with one of them for the sparing combinations. I felt really proud about helping; her she caught on super fast :-)I also officially have Single Stick Form One down. We must have done it 20 something times. :-D

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Today in B...

Today in Black Belt class we went over the Bo cho dan one step self defense which was great cause I realized that I managed to kick with the wrong foot on 2 and 3. we also went over some poomsaes which I cant remember the name of :-(

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Today in B...

Today in Black Belt class we went over the Bo cho dan one step self defense which was great cause I realized that I managed to kick with the wrong foot on 2 and 3. we also went over some poomsaes which I cant remember the name of :-(

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Yesterday ...

Yesterday I did my first Help out with class but I couldn't do my running. Sorry about my last post it was my first time and I didn't know what to put cause I couldn't see any one else's, cause my internet kept on failing so again, sorry.

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today I sa...

today I sat and watched T.V. then my parents did what the normally do: scream at me to get off my lazy butt and do some tae kwon do requirements, then my dad yelled at me to get up to date on logging in what we've done and then my brother yelled at me to start my journal entries. Were would we be without family?

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