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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Missed classes

Week before last we had bad weather and missed classes. Then I became ill and missed classes, now more bad weather and more missed classes.   I've had an unfortunate event in my family and we have lost two young family members so I have a visitation and a funeral to attend on Saturday so even though the weather will probably permit and I do feel better I am still going to have to miss classes.  It all feels a bit overwhelming trying to figure out how is it going to be possible to reach the required numbers now.
While I'm not a big fan of the snow, I did get out in it a little bit.  Took a few photos for memories sake.  I've been working on my requirements, trying to catch up on some things. I can tell there are some positive changes. After too many temper tantrums and frustrated attempts I have finally got a little better with the jump rope. Oh my goodnes I had no idea I was so bad at jump roping.  I have now managed to up my number from 10 reps to 54 before missing...AND I have actually on a couple occasions actually made 100 reps in one minute.  I am so excited about this improvement.  
I have started using a resistance band for my pullups.  I can do a few more and I feel like it is helping.  I still cant do a pullup without it.  
I can tell there have been some other positive body changes... Although something on my body always seems to hurt the soreness that I initially had when starting the cycle is not near as bad.  I think I am getting stronger in some areas.  
Dear Journ...
18th journal entry