Spring 2025 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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March 26th - March 27th

I spent the evening at my twin sisters house. It was very nice to spend time with her play her video games eat her food and pet Fin while she worked hard teaching children at school. I got to the Dojang and enjoyed my lunch before classes got started for the evening. I got to help out Instructor Garrett with classes and then I got to help teach the kids class and help them work on earning their yellow stripe for teamwork. Then I had sparring class and black belt class which both went excellent its always great to learn from a newer different perspective. Master Opey has been my mentor throughout the black belt cycle and it's been great getting to know him. He still surprises me with new ways to learn and improve my taekwondo with stretching and specific techniques designed for TKD sparring. He always make thing enjoyable and challenging. Master Burkurt taught our Black Belt class this evening. I've gotten the pleasure and honor of really getting to know him better since I have been back at King Tiger. He has been instructing a lot of the Black Belt class and he is always able to teach the class in a way that makes you wonder where the time has gone. We spent time focusing on slowing down the techniques within our poomsaes then worked on the blocks and we also got some weapons training. I'm definitely appreciative of his time and willingness to share his knowledge and experience us students. I'm finally writing this late in the evening I spent a couple hours on the phone with my lil sister Aly we our on opposite coast and different work schedules so when get the chance to talk anytime we always chat forever. I'm finally typing this up at 2:01 am and going to eat something quick then hop in bed. See y'all tomorrow.

Thursday March 27th
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