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!
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Daily dose of TKD

Boy oh boy do I have stuff to write about with the final physical test. It all started at Lake Norman when me and my dad pulled into the parking lot at exactly 6:40 am only to see the King Tiger party bus pulling out the other side! I was upset because I was looking forward to riding the party bus. Not that my dad's car smells bad or anything... but then a wonderful thing happened. The bus, as Master Chelley (aka Queen Tiger) said, "pulled a Uie" and came back to get me. I said my thank yous and hopped on the bus. On the way there, one of my TKD friends, Caleb, was playing games on his phone and turned the volume up really loud to make it sound funny. We laughed really hard. 

At North Charlotte I beat all of my pre-test numbers except for burpees but in my defense, I had just done a 5:35 plank so my arms were currently non-existent. Since we did the written test right after the physical test my hands were really shaky at first, but I got the hang of the pen. After class I got back on the party bus and drove back to my home away from home and my dad showed up in his smelly car with some donuts for the testers. We hung out for a couple of hours and then filled the Bags of Hope. It was fun. After Bags of Hope me and my dad took Peter to his house. Crazily enough, Peter was locked out but then he came up with the perfectly humanly possible idea of prying the garage door open. Once he was in the house we were able to head home.

Anyway, there are two more weeks left of the cycle. Make sure everyone knows their stuff and I'll see you next week for the running or I'll see in class this week if you go to lake Norman. PS - my dog is sleeping with a plastic cup on his head.

 

Journal for Saturday
3/9/2024