Spring 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!
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A lot on my plate

Just realized that I have a lot going on from now to the end of the year. Not just auditing this black belt cycle, but planning my parents' 50th anniversary, a monastery retreat , as well as the end of year bottleneck of office work. Trying not to get anticipatory anxiety. Good thing the future only comes one moment at a time.

Our adult free mat class was productive today. Master Evins left us with a list of tasks. It helped my requirements quite a bit. I'll feel it tomorrow. We went through all the color belt poomsae twice. As work gets busier, my schedule will change.  I may not be able to make the class as often. I'll really miss my adult classmates. We work hard, sweat, and laugh together. I like how we make sure we all get it. We help and teach each other. I haven't had this much fun in a class since grade school :-). Today, Master Knight had to shoo us out the class because we had gone overtime.

Thursday
My day has...