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 in Black Belt cycle!

Today, I woke up happy to start my first day of Black Belt cycle. I did my morning routine and got ready to go to taekwondo. When I got there, I started to work on my fitness requirements since I asked to go in an hour earlier than originally planned. My mom also brought me breakfast since I didn't eat prior to leaving this morning. While doing my kicks, I hurt myself on the bag because I kept hitting the same area on the top of my foot repeatedly. I don't usually kick on the hanging bags, but I feel that was the cause, so next time I will use the ones for class instead. I had my friend Ryker help make sure I was doing my rolls and falls correctly since I can't see myself when I'm doing it. He gave me good feedback and now I know I need to focus a lot on doing the back rolls better. It was hard for the first day because I'm not used to doing so many things in one day for taekwondo, especially the workout stuff. I also helped out with the junior class with their obstacle course, played a bit with my friend Tolby, attended leadership, then left to get lunch. When I got home from taekwondo, I worked on some coding for a traffic light I'm making on Roblox Studio. The reason I was working on the code for a traffic light was because I am working on a game that needs a lot of traffic lights. After that, I played some games on my computer in my free time since it wasn't ideal weather out today. We got my "simple shrub" yesterday called a Fire Chief (since we would have had to order the Japanese Boxwood) and so my mom ordered me a moisture meter to keep track of when to water it! We also ordered some Bento boxes so that when I start the nutrition portion, I can take my lunch to school since I always eat school lunch instead. For dinner we had Panda Express because we didn't feel like cooking today. I got the orange chicken with chow mien which is my go-to from there. 

Day 1
Getting Started!