Fall 2026 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!

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30 Today was a pretty normal day. I didnt do much. I woke up and did school work. It took me about an hour to finish. After that I had a fairly normal day. I said my goodbyes to my grand parents that were leaving my house. After that I played videogames with some of my friends and went outside.    Overall a pretty good day. 6.7893298/10

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It finnaly is here, the best part I of the week. I had so much time to do my tkd requirments today, I actually enjoyed it in a long time. After my shower, I went out to go play soccer with some friends. After that I played videogames with them and overall had a great day. Have a great day everyone.

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28 Today I did my tkd requirments after school. After I went to tkd class and was so excited for sparring. The sparring drills. I learned many new things today and used them during sparring. I felt the drills were very innovative and exciting. After class, I went home and ok a shower.     overall a decent day.

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27 Today was my math test. It seemed very hard at first, but I thought it through and think I did pretty well on it. After that, I went to tkd volunteering and helped others. Helping others not only made me feel good but also it made me learn from my mistakes and correct my forms. After that, from my mentor session, I finnaly got red and high red belt down.   Over all a 7/10 day

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26 Today is a wednesday. I was informed that I have and Ap math test tommorrow and I'm both panicking and not panicking at the same time. In computer science ap class we did coding with python to make a physical hardware piece light up. It was pretty cool.   Overall it is a 5/10 day.  

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25   Today was a slighty better day from yesterday. I felt more energized after school, but still took a nap. After tkd class, I did my tkd requirments and went to thew airport to pick up grandparents. I haven't seen them in a long time, they are so amazing.     Overall a 6/10 day  

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24 Today is a monday, like always its very hard for me to wake up in the morning. I woke up at 5:30 to finish up a project and get ready for school. After school and I come back home, I was very tired so I went to take a nap. I used to think naps were so lame and boring when I was younger and my parents were taking some. I finally understood the meaning behind it, thanked my parents and said sorry for thinking that is wasn't smart. I actually enjoyed that nap so much, I overslept by about 24 minuites, making me late for finishing homework and practicing for the SAT. I finished it and went to tkd. After Tkd class, I finished my requirments and felt very tired and now heading to bed. The more and more I grow up, I feel more and more that going...

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23 Today was a great day. I woke up and felt energized for my tkd requirments. I ran extra miles today. After the rest of my Tkd requirments, I showered and after, felt like practicing my sparing. I watched some olympic sparing videos and learned some cool moves and counters to various moves. After, I finished my school AP project and studied for my SAT. After all of that, I finally went outside and got to play pickleball and basketball with some friends. Overall it was a very productive and fun Sunday. 8/10

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22 Today I woke up early and did my tkd requirments. After my run, I went and took a shower which after my parents told me we were invited by another family over for lunch. I was so excited and did school homework.   Overall it was a fun day.

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21 today I was finally so happy it was friday because I could finaly get some sleep. I came home, did my tkd requirments and then went to sleep for an hour. Then I had to go to volunteering at the local blood drive for the red cross, and sadly have to miss the tkd class. It ok because I stall mad it to sparring class. Sparring class was so great because I learned many lessons about sparring. Overall it was a 7/10 day.

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Ive had 3 hours of sleep. I worked so hard for this weekend. It was an average day like any other. I did my tkd after school then practiced for the sat after my homework. Ive been so tired throught the day and jus would love some sleep. -1/10

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19  Today was a very bad day. Each of my ap classes kept on giving so much work. I couldnt breathe. Not only that, Im running on 5 hours of sleep, homework from 3 ap classses and have 2 tests to study and take tomorrow. I just wish I can get some sleep. 2/10 day.

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18 Today was such a boring day. I had to wake up early to finish a project I started for a non-profit. I had to spend an extra hour at 5 in the morning to finish volunteer work. This made me verrrrrryyyy tired. I was so tired throught the school day I felt like falling asleep. Atlast, came the final period of the day and I was so excited to leave school, that I fell asleep. Nobody woke me up so I missed out on notes. Luckily, when I got home, I took a nap and after my amazing nap, I did notes and learned the topic. 6.3/10 day

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Today was a pretty normal day. As always returning back to school after a weekday is a hastle. Carpooling with my friend was fun because we got to talk to eachother during the time in the car. After I went to school, we did all classes like normal, but today, in Ap Comp Sci,  we played IMPOSTER. It was so fun because when I was the imposter no one could guess that is was me.   Overall it was a fun day.

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16 today was very fun. I woke up, very excited knowing I have a function planned. I did my tkd requirments and actually did extra because I was so excited and need to burn off the extra energy. After hitting a nice workout, I took a shower and got ready to go to the function. The function had so many of my friends and the food was so good. Overall a 7/10 day. very fun

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Pretty Normal day Today I woke up early and did my tkd requirments. then took a shower and my friend came back from his vacation from out of country. So, me and him hung out played videogames, then later enjoyed playing soccer outside. I took another shower and once it was time I went to a baby shower. IT WAS A BABY GIRL!! Overall a pretty fun day.

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Today was pretty normal. I went to school pretty normaly and felt as if nothing was wrong. I did my tkd once I got home. Overall was a normal day

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Day 2 of school felt pretty tiring. Almost fell asleep during my classes but I powerd through. Though soon things seemed to get better because I found my textbook and phone that I lost. I thought they were gone for good but I am happy to see them again. doing leadership class for taekwondo for the first time felt amazing. Teaching other people not only made me feel better on my forms, but it was fun because I was doing something nice for other people. Great day

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12 Today was the first day of school. I meet some of my friends I haven't met in a while. Overall I felt my classes are pretty good except for one. AP Precalculus. As a sophomore, this feels almost like a nightmare. But I really do feel If I put my mind to it and focus, I think I can finish it off well. The hardest and worst part of my day was running right after school. I was already sweaty from walking home in the schorching hot weather. Overall it was anm interesting and not avery desirable day. 

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10 Today was a little difficult to run as I felt irritation in my lower knee area, but I pushed through and ran my early morning mile. After tkd requirments, I took a shower and got ready to go meet my grandma after a long time. It was so fun hanging out with her. She is so sweet and she cooks amazing food. She is the best thing I was ever introduced to. Overall it was very fun .

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9 Today was pretty hard to wake up, I woke up very sore with body aches all over. Nevertheless, I still went and ran 2 miles this morning. It felt like the running helped me ease my pain a little. A warm shower followed right after, for, soon I was off to a family friend's house to share a lunch together. It was quite fun to be at there house and the food was amazing. We made brownies with them and they turned out amazing. Overall the day was pretty fun and I had a blast at my friend's house.

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Aug 8

8   Today I woke up feeling AMAZING. I was so motivated and energized when I went on my morning run. I was so full of energy I went for 2 miles instead of 1. I took a shower and felt like doing extra for my tkd requirments. I was so happy of myself and felt progression throught my mind and body throught since the cycle started. We later went to the mall with my friends and we had a fun time watching the spiderman movie there. Overall it was a great day.

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Aug 6

Aug 6 Early morning went for my mile run. Was very foggy. It really did help though, as I would normaly feel heated from running, the fog felt like it helped me cool down. When I was done, I took a shower then went out to a local red cross group meeting, to help a blood drive and help volunteer for the needy. I felt so good seeing people smile and thanking me and my group.

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7  Today was very calm. We were on the way to Virginia as our first desination of the trip. It was so crammed in the back because we had to put extra luggage at our feet. I Mostly fell asleep for the 7 our drive. Once we got to the hotel, I did my tkd requirments. I was hard finding a spot for my poomse and running in an unfimiliar place.

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6 Today was very boring. Today was the day we had to get packing. The whole day we were packing our bags to get to go on a big trip with some ouf our family friends. We packed for so long I barely had time for my tkd. as  a

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5   Today was very fun. After my taekwondo requirments, I was very excited to go to a friends birthday. We went to the Concord Mills Mall and were having so much fun. We watched a movie that day too.

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4 I woke up early for my morning run and then while running I saw a deer. The deer looked like it very young. when I went closer it ran away. I went back home after finishing and worked on my requirments.

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3 Today was a good day. I woke up feeling very energized. I went early for a mile run today. Once I came back I was feeling as I need to work more on my poomse. I spent more time on the poomses and then did the rest of my requirments.

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2 Today was a pretty boring day. I just did my tkd requirments then went around walking for enjoyment. When I came back, I went out with some friends then went back home.

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Today was the the black belt pre test. We went on a run for 1 mile. I was pretty fun, it was exhausting but once i stopped, it felt as if i was a machine that is cooling down. Then we went into the dojan, did the requirment and then did the poomsae. I had trouble on the poomsae, but was determined to use my mistakes to learn. Over all, it was a very fun, yet tiring day.

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July 26th

July 26th.

Im on my road trip from VA to NY.

After I finish my road trip, at my destination I still try to complete my requirements and do so. After im done, we leave the hotel and go on our first trip in NY. We go to the edge building. The glass building was scary to look

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