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!

kick-a-thon

Today it was the kick-a-thon and black belt class. so tired bye

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delicious

Today it was school { booooring } then went to black belt class and had Panera for dinner with crumble cookies for dessert then I went home and did my requirements and watched a movie.

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Hmmmmmmmmmm

  I don't know what to call this journal as you can see but I'm not here to talk about the title. Today I went to school and came to TKD then came home did some requirements, played, outside then ate dinner and went.

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again

Today I worked on two essay. did some requirements then was done 

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ESSAY day

Today I mainly worked on essays today because I don't have a lot done. did enough requirements so i'm don't get behind.

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essays

Today Im going to do a lot of essays. because the due date is approaching.

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mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Today after sparring I felt so sluggish. I did not want to do anything. 

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second day of school

Today was my second day of school. After school I went to TKD. then came home and did some requirements.

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school

Today was my first day of fifth grade. Yay. then I went to king tiger and did some requirements. helped out with a class. then came home and did some requirements.

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road trip

Today I left Cincinnati. The hotel I was staying at had bad wi-fi so I couldn't get any journals or log my requirements. tomorrow is my first day of school.

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sparring

Today I had sparring we worked on some foot work.  then I had pizza for dinner.

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north Charlotte

Today I went to black belt class at north Charlotte with Grand master Evans, because I'm going out of town on Friday.

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written test

Today day I did some of the written test with some help from Instructor Jen. then I went to my brothers football practice. that's all

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blank

Today I went to the library after doing some requirements. I got two books one is called "Racc pack" and the other is called "Gamerville".

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class

At black belt class yesterday we worked on bocho self defense and kicks.

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black belt class

Today I went to black belt class. we worked on red and high red self defense. after class I had a mentor session with master Natasya. For dinner I had chick fil a. I got a cookies and cream milk shake. 

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sparring

Today I went to Sparring class. I sparred against Bryce and Kasey. When I sparred against Bryce he kicked me in the knee and it hurt a lot. Then I came home and had breakfast for dinner.

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doctors

Today I went to camp and did class then at eleven I left for my doctors appointment and stayed home doing requirements.

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black belt class

Today I went to black belt class. We worked on kicking defense 1 and 2. Then I came home and watched a movie.

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the storm

Today when I woke up it was storming really hard. My backyard was flooded. When the rain slowed down, we saw a turtle in our backyard. I think it was an alligator snapping turtle. Then I did a lot of requirements and went to sparring class.

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helper

Today I went to camp and helped with the little kids all day. they had parkour. It was fun to help out.

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yesterday

yesterday was my dad's birthday and one of my digital detox days. I did a lot of requirements. I also did a lot of things for my dad like making beaded bracelets.

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friday

Today I did some requirements then planned my first digital detox. I watched a movie then wrote this now I'm probably asleep.

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black belt class

Today I went to black belt and rolls and falls class. In black belt class we did singuwalli.

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sparring class

Today I had Sparring class. I sparred with Henry and Jack. I think I won both times but It was close against Jack. Then I had Chipotle for dinner.

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Requirements

Today I went to camp and got some requirements done. Then I came home and did some more requirements. Now I'm doing this requirement.

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basketball practice

Today Me and my brother both had basketball practice Which was super lucky because I got to do a lot of requirements at the track and workout playground then I had practice

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practice

I did some requirements before heading to my brothers basketball practice but the rec center had volleyball tryouts so no practice so we came home and I'm about to do some requirements after I finish this journal.

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grandma's house

Yesterday I went to my grandma's house and forgot to do any requirements so today I'm going to double up on my requirements bye

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Outside

Hi guys today I will be talking about today and how I played outside. first I ran my mile of course. after that I played tag with my friends then came inside to write this journal

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Camp

I went to camp today and we did a contest with exercises so I got some requirements done. In like an hour I have basketball practice. 

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Night

Went to my brothers basketball practice and ran 3 miles super sore going to do some requirements then go to bed

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the morning

I just woke up this morning and started this journal. I'm waiting till my parents wake up so I can run a few miles to catch up. Yesterday after my basketball game I only did requirements like push ups, sit ups, burpees, jump rope, poomsaes, self defense, and kicks.

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pretest

Just came back from the pretest. did pretty good, held plank for +3 minutes. Got most of the written test right but still need to work on the poomsaes. Going to do some requirements then head to my basketball game at noon

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Starting Late

Even though I started late I feel like I'm catching up. I did some pull ups, push ups and sit ups. I ran a mile in 8 minutes and I did burpees. I took my first Black Belt class today and my first sparring class yesterday. I chose my mentee this week and am still working on scheduling a mentor session.

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