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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First day of Physical Requirements

Today was the first day that I did a full workout. I'm a little bit tired and its weird having to do a certain amount of pushups and situps. Today one of my masters, Master Justin Laloan, got back from a trip to New York. Also one of his students from New York came down for a tournament. He is a black belt and a really good martial artists from what I have seen. I'm hoping to pick up a few tricks from him. Mainly beginning to work on the 540 kick. I saw him do it today and it was really cool. Its good to have Master Justin back. It was different last week without him, just like its different when Master Burkhart or Master Thamn isn't around. I got my leadership credit today and I will get another tomorrow as well as a leadership 2 credit. We worked on combination kicks and forms for the most of senior belt class. Everyone seems to know their stuff and are ready for testing this weekend. With all of my physical requirements out of the way I think I'm gonna meditate for a little bit then watch American Ninja Warrior.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim ...
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