Fall 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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Rest, Rust, Wrist

I wound up skipping Black Belt class this morning because I was feeling less than 100%.  I assumed it was allergies as I'm a couple of days behind on some medication.  I wound up just taking it easy this morning instead.  As the day has gone on, however, it hasn't resolved.  I did make it to the PMAA knife seminar and felt fine during that but it's kinda been up and down all day since.

I'm trying to keep my Cycle requirements varied, not just by changing up the style of pushups but also by focusing on different things like my stances in color belt curriculum or improving my basic kicks instead of only drilling down the 2nd Dan skills.  It's too easy to assume I'm ok with older stuff but I noticed the other day in class that my stances aren't always as correct as they should be - and there's no reason not to try to fix that.

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Surprise melons