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!

10-2 Tuesday

Today in my mentor session we I went over brick breaking and got some practice for testing as it has been around 3 years since i last broke a brick. 

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10-1 Monday

Today was another back to school after the weekend day, after school I practiced on my forms to prepare for testing this weekend.

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9-30 Sunday

Today I didn't do much, i worked on some math homework and watched Jurassic world. Back to school tomorrow.

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9-29 Saturday

Today my grandparents came down for my grand dad's birthday. I spent some time with them and had fun. I wish i could see them more often.

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9-28 Friday

Today at school in English I am starting the beginning of my senior exit project which will be a big project that I will be doing for the rest of high school. Right now I am in the beginning of choosing a topic to do my research paper on.

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9-27 Thursday

Today 2 of my teachers at school were out so i didn't do much. I did have an English test that I got a 93 on so i'm happy about that. 

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9-26 Wednesday

Nothing much happened today, school back home to do requirements and a little bit of homework. 

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9-25 Tuesday

Today in class we worked on some color belt forms and self defenses, along with a few combinations of kicks to help us prepare for black belt testing in 2 weeks. 

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9-23 Sunday

Today I finished up some things for school and worked on my pull-ups, I really want to be able to do one arm pull-ups soon so i have been working on those a lot lately.

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9-21 Friday

Today i went to school, and mowed the yard when i got home, I have been Studying and preparing for the written and physical test tomorrow. Community service is also tomorrow, not gonna be bored tomorrow. 

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9-20

Today I was busy for most of the day. After school I went to the bank with my mom do to some things, after that we went to get something to eat and when we got home i had a few things to do and then i had to go to Tae Kwon Do after that.

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9-18 Tuesday

Today was my first day back to school in five days. It felt weird but i have tomorrow off also. In class we went over staff forms and black belt forms.

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9-16 Sunday

Today wasn't very productive. I mostly stayed inside all day because there wasn't much else to do. I did my requirements  and that was about it. not much to do when you've been home for many with no school because of a hurricane.

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9-15 Saturday

Today was fun, we had a last minute black belt class with Master Evins. We went over sticks and self defense, it was only 8 people but we had a lot of fun during our "Hurricane Training."

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9-14 Friday

Today was another day that i didn't have school because of the Hurricane on route to our area. Didn't do much today just cleaned up around the house some and mowed the yard. Hope tomorrow will be a little more fun.  

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9-13 Thursday

Today i didn't have school, I also wont have school for the next few days because of the hurricane. Today in class we went over the 4 strikes for single stick which was fun and I haven't done those in a long time.

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9-12 Wednesday

Today was an early release day at school so i got at about 2 hours early. Also i don't have school Thursday or Friday because of hurricane Florence. 

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9-11 Tuesday

Today I went to school didn't do much was, was pretty easy going. Tonight we worked on forms and went over our written test during our mentor session.

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9-10 Monday

Today is the first day in a few days i have been able to journal on the black belt web site, i was having some problems but they have been fixed. I didn't do much today, i went to school, went home did some work and requirements and that was about it.

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9-4 Tuesday

Today was a good day, school was good, i didn't have any homework to do so i was able to get some extra things done. Black belt class was good we went over hapkido forms and self defense. 

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8-24 Friday

Today was the last day of summer camp i have been working all summer there helping out with all the kids. I start school next week which wont be very fun.

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8-23 Thursday

Today me and Ms. Melissa put up snipe signs for the King Tiger after school program which was fun and then I leaned hopkido form 4 during my mentor session with Master Cavasos.           

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8-21 Tuesday

Today i went and got my parking pass for school. This is the first year I will be able to drive to school. Today in class we worked on Hopkido form 1 and other things we can add to it. 

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3-1 Thursday

Today I packed for Instructors camp and can't wait to go. Had fun in class, to bad a lot of people are not going.

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Tuesday 2-27

Today i went to black belt class and had fun with others in a friendly competition with Ryan and others, had a tie with Ryan will have to see who's better later.

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Nothing special

today g special happened my eye still has a mark from when i got kicked in the eye saturday

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AAU

Today i competed in the AAU tournament. For sparring i sparred the 15_17 year olds thankfully the one i spared was only fifteen. I don't know whey i got put in that group when I'm 13 me and John Gray tried to tell them but it took no effect. I got kicked in the right eye and then in the left one. Ill probably have a mark there for a couple of days i had to get an ice pack for my eye. There was a couple of tears but i made it through 

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AAU tomorrow

Today i was practicing A LOT for the AAU tomorrow. I did a lost of sparring and forms and other stuff to help me get caught up 

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new place

Today was the day we moved to a new place but i didn't go to class so i don't know what its like 

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Last day at old kta

Today was the last day i will be at the old king tiger place. I've been going there for 9 years and its really made an impact on me. Im going to  miss that place 

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class tomorrow

Tomorrow is the last day i will be at the old tae kwon do place before we go to a temporary location 

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Another day

Today was a relaxing day i didn't do anything school tomorrow and tuesday will be the last day at king tiger

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Today i we...

Today i went to black belt class got a mentor session and a leadership 2

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Today we h...

Today we had a half day at school yay ably there for 5 hours so not rally a half day

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today i we...

today i went to black belt class and we worked on self defense and poomsaes i also got another mentor session

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today i di...

today i didn't really do anything i wonder what the retreat is going to be like

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Today I di...

Today I did the physical and written test. I passed them thankfully. Hopefully i will make it through

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Today i we...

Today i went to black belt class we went over some self defence and distance for kicks

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Today i we...

Today i went to school and came home nothing interesting won't be here Thursday or friday because ill be in Pittsburgh

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today i di...

today i didn't do anything and won't be doing anything this weekend because I'm not going to the pmaa myrtle beach training

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Today i we...

Today i went to black belt class but i didn't feel to good. my head hurt a bit but i made it through

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Today i wa...

Today i want to black belt class and got another Mentee session and had fun in class

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Today noth...

Today nothing happened going to black belt class tomorrow though

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Today i di...

Today i didn't do anything really but i have school tomorrow yay...

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Today i we...

Today i went to sparring class and black belt class and used my new sparring gear. Its a lot better

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today i ha...

today i had another mentor session with master Cavasos and i worked on hopkido 1-19

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Today i we...

Today i went to school and thats really it going to black belt class tomorrow and going to get a menthe session

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Today i we...

Today i went to black belt class worked on some hopkedo learned some new stuff

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Today i di...

Today i didn't do much i`ll most likely be going to black belt class tonight.

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Today i di...

Today i didn't really do anything but I'm getting really close to being done with my requirements

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Today i ha...

Today i had a mentor session with master Cavasoss. Lois Matthew and Joshua Were there for it to

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Today i we...

Today i went to black belt class glad i have no more pmaa to do. now i can get home earlier

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Today I we...

Today I went back to get another leadership credit, haven't gotten one of those in a while but only need 1 more. Cant say the same about the leadership credit 2`s though

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Today was ...

Today was the first day of school for me it was better than i thought it would be yay

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today i we...

today i went to the master Hama seminar I had a lot of fun glad that i am back

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TodAy I pl...

TodAy I played golf with my granddad that's reAlly all I did today be back on Saturday

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TodAy I pl...

TodAy I played golf with my granddad that's reAlly all I did today be back on Saturday

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TodAy I pl...

TodAy I played golf with my granddad that's reAlly all I did today be back on Saturday

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TodAy I pl...

TodAy I played golf with my granddad that's reAlly all I did today be back on Saturday

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today i we...

today i went 6 miles almost done with some stuff for the cycle yay

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Today i ra...

Today i ran 18 miles so "fun" I'm soon tired and its only 7:50

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Today i we...

Today i went with my granddad to work it was really fun thats really all

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Today i di...

Today i didn't do much just ran 1.7 miles and some pushups and sit-ups not much going on

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this week ...

this week i won't be able to go to class because I'm at my grandparents but i still did some of my requirements

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Today i we...

Today i went to bb class and pmaa we learned disarms and other things was was fun

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Today i we...

Today i went to summer camp and then left early to go to the dentist so thats really all for today

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Today I di...

Today I didn't go to summer camp but i helped out in class and bb class and pmaa

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today all ...

today all i really did was go to summer camp do my requirements and other stuff nothin much

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Today i re...

Today i really didn't do too much because i didn't go to class tonight but i still went to summer camp

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Today i wa...

Today i was at king tiger for 9 hour for summer camp and other classes it was pretty fun

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another day

Today i went to summer camp helped out and did all that i usually do

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Not Much

Today i was at a friends house so i didn't get much done but I'm ready to keep going

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long morning

this morning i mowed the yard did other stuff went to class the next bb class and sparring class and I'm going over to my friends house a , done a lot today

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Another day

Today I went to summer camp again just like every weekday and we did normal stuff. there was no class today since it was friday and i had some fun

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thursday

Today i went to sumer camp for about 6 hours today went home ate ran and did some requirements then went back to king tiger and helped out with another class took black belt class and a pmaa class fun day

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Fun Day

Today i helped out in summer camp when to black belt class and combative class the combative class was very fun today i learned connectors and some escapes and got in a mentor sesion

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Monday

Today i went to sumer camp and got another leadership credit. i will thankfully get many of those since i help out almost all week i am glad i am helping out with all those classes

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hello

i finally have been able to get on the site and i can input everything and i can start journaling and i don't have to wait anymore. I'm so glad

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worried about testing

lately ive been worried about testing its the only thing i can worry about besides school and im stressed out i really hope i pass

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last miles

today i ran my last 2.58 miles before school when i got back there was these huge peppers and i said where'd you get those and my dad said there the ones that we grew and i said wow

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almost there

today i went to help out with class and took class we did some poomsaes and a lot of self defense also went on a field trip at school 

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no requirements

toda i didn't do anything but i still got to run 5.58 miles but went to a friends house this morning i have been bored out of my mind school field trip tomorrow learned about a lot of thins the past couple of days i wonder if people still  journal ill check tomorrow im ganna go make me a milkshake  

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bored

today i woke up and ran not much to do i cant play video games and nothing to do 

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not much

late ley theres not been much to talk about since stuff has been finished except for the test i hope i make it   

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just got home

today i got home from my grandparents i didn't run so i got to ketch up 

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10-12 failed to save

on saturday 10-12 I did my pre test it was better than last time all I need to retake is my v-situps But i don't know what i got on my written test but I fell good about it 

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almost done

today i finished a bit more requirements pretest tomorrow a bit stressed if i don't pass i wont pass my dad so i better make my pretest and my test or im dead :/

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10-10-13 failed to save

on thursday 10-10 I ran and went to black belt class I also helped out to class in black belt class we worked on different strikes and kicks it was alot of fun

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getting on top of my requirements

today i did extra on my remaining requirements because i finished a lot of the others im really close to finishing, getting a bit of homework though now 

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weekday class

today I went to the tuesday black belt class we did tae Kwan do jeopardy we went over our tests and we played it was fun almost done with requirements 

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mentor no show

today I went to leadership class and we worked on demo stuff before master Michel was going to show up but didn't I got a mentee session with tiger and still ran 2 miles its very very annoying 

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4 miles

today I had to run 4 miles because i didn't run yesterday because of the AAU tournament my dad told me yesterday i din`t have to run because of the tournament so i had to make it up

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AAU

Today i went to the AAU tournament and did both sparring and forms i got 3rd place on sparring and 2nd on forms on sparring i did 2 matches because there was 4 people in my group the first match was 2 other people in my group in the middle of 1 round 1 kid threw up i had the last  and 3rd  to last matches master Kim was my coach when i did my last match the judge said i was blocking with my nee because the kid screamed and i happened twice i had no idea was she was talking about but then i figured out that it was because me and him kicked at the same time after my last match master Kim and master Michel said i was really good im happy im home and i can rest still got to figure out what classes i got...

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today was ok

today was ok its a friday so it has to be at least ok i had an ok day at school i ran 2 miles in the mourning again i did my requirements and logged them in my sister lost the remote my dad found it finally some free time i still got 3 pages on the kwans 

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master Riche class

today i went to black belt class and master Riche tout  it we worked on stretching out our kicks and proper distance i learned a lot today and it was fun

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9-7-13 failed to save

on saturday 9-7 i went to black belt class and sparring class i got there early and did some requirements sparring class we did alott of kicking partners down the dojang it was fun sorta after that I went home and ran it was an ok day 

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bb class

Today I went and helped out with class i also got a white belt for the challenge the class was more like a staff class because that was all we did was use staffs it was really fun i also got in a mentoring session with master Michel we worked on hopkido he didn't really remember 14 and up so well do it thursday but we worked on first dawn self defense instead of hopkido over all it was a really good day still working on history of the Kwans pretty long essay compared to the others i hope i can do it in time 

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9-14-13 failed to save

on saturday 9-14 i went to black belt class and sparring class I got a mentor session in but I never go up to do warm ups in front of a big class its just too much pressure on me with that kind of thing 

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9-26 failed to save

on thursday 9-26 I went to black belt class and I helped out with class and got a leadership credit 1and 2 and got a class and the mentee mentor things all i really need is running

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tired

today i ran 2 miles before school ugh i felt really tired after requirements and im still tired not really any homework at all so no stress on work i still got to right a couple essays 

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