Spring 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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First day back to school

Today was the first day back to school after winter break. To start off with my morning, I woke up, got ready for school, got a mini froot loops box, then left. When I got to school, I didn't get breakfast there because I had the froot loops box. I ate the cereal then I got an idea to make the box into a mailbox. I did but, I cut my finger in the process...it was worth it though. Math class, easy. Reading, normal. Lunch, good. Recess, in the middle. I fell hard on my legs, increasing the pain I had from Saturday. AIG, happy. Encore (went to the library), easy. Science, easy. Dismissal, very happy.  I'm always happy when it is the end of the school day. When I got in the car, I showed my mom the mailbox I made and told her about taking it to class with me tonight. Today was also the first day I got to mentor my mentee, Faith. She is a red belt. Today we worked on her self-defense, rolls and falls. I made up a game that is based on the game Pizza that we do occasionally at the end of taekwondo class. If you don't know what Pizza is, it is a game where you have a square target in your hand. Your goal is to knock other people's targets out of their hand, while keeping your target on your hand. I changed it up a bit so that the point is to defend your target, by throwing it to another place on the mat, then do a roll to it before the other players kick it away from your reach. If your target gets knocked out of your hand before you're able to throw it away in order to do your roll, you either do 3 front rolls or 1 back roll, but you can only throw your target away every 30 seconds. After I got home from taekwondo, I ate dinner, wrote this and, watched TV.

 

Lousy Monday
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