Candidate Journals

Today is the day im starting my diet! i decided that eating more protein would be good for me especially when im on the cycle. im excited to see how it effects me!!!

Yesterday was pretty chill in class. we learned about locks and how to get out of some grabs. other than that, i worked with my mentee today and that was pretty fun. she's really funny so it's never boring mentoring her. im just really excited for the weekend.

Today i helped with our senior tiger class today. i helped the white belts and i really hope that i could be as encouraging to them as people were to me when i was a white belt. but i guess i have to turn in to them soon (for a week). im honestly really excited to see what happens when i turn into a white belt. that's all!!!

today i got 2 out of 10 (i think) essays done. im going to start a new diet soon. i want my new diet to be getting more protein so im excited to see what that diet does to me. i also went to a black belt class today and did a lot of kicking. so it was a pretty chill day

Yesterday was the first day that the requirements were stepped up a notch. For the kicks section, i usually already to more than 5 minutes but i was for sure more tired because of the other things. one thing im going to start doing is running more than a mile a day. its summer and i'm like really really free so, why not?

Today during sparring, sadly i couldn’t spar because i was dizzy. but i think it was a blessing because i could really see how other people sparred and how different the styles were. some people have strong kick some have fast some have good front kick and so on.

today was my dojung's belt testing so i helped out. it was kind of weird being the one helping instead of the one testing. usually i envy the helpers because they're not stressing about getting the next belt. turns out i was wrong and most of them still are. but it was great telling people that they did a good job and watch their face light up. so anyways, until next time!!!(probably tomorrow)

Today, when I was doing my mentor session I realized that mentoring someone else really gave me a deeper understanding on what I was doing too. I mean I've read somewhere that teaching other people is what helps people remember best. Plus, I think that mentoring is a requirement BECAUSE it gives us a deeper understanding. (Also it helps with your people skills too>)

Today was pretty fun! I went to the mall with my friends and that was great. Somehow the conversation we had shifted to me being in Taekwondo  thrice which is strange but, I'm not complaining. They had many questions though. For example, "Do you beat people up?", "Is it hard?", "Don't you get hurt?". The answer to all of the questions was "sometimes" but I'm just glad they were asking me questions about something I'm so passionate about.

Today was the first time I went to sparring during the black belt cycle!!! I think there's this feeling that when you're on the cycle, every class you go to, you try 10 times harder than you usually would. Or maybe it's just me. Either way,  I'm proud of all the new effort I'm putting into classes. Plus, I'm getting into the hang of the cycle with all the requirements and classes I have to go to. Bye!

Today was the first day I assisted a class and went to the front of the class for a leadership credit!!! I felt really good making other people feel better about their self defense and hop step kicks. I was a little nervous for the leadership part though. While I can usually remember all the warm ups while I'm taking classes, when I'm in front I'm a little less confident. But I'll get more confident as the cycle goes on. Good luck again everyone!!!

Yesterday was the first day that I incorporated all the requirements for the cycle into my daily routine. I'm used to doing them all on different days but it was strange doing them all on the same day. But today, I made a set time frame that i should do my workout and runs during. I'm sure that as the days go on, I'll make it a habit to do the excercises instead of having to be reminded.

I just did my first black belt pretest today! I'm super excited (but really nervous) to go on this journey. My baselines for workouts were alright but I know that if I put in the time and effort, I'll do a lot better on the final physical test. Good luck everyone!