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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staffing

Lately I've been working on a specific poomsae and I practice every time I go to King Tiger after school, every time I have spare time before class and almost every mentor session I practice this form. What is it you ask? It's staff form 2. At the beginning of the cycle I could only get through the three spins at the beginning of the poomsae. Now I know the entire form and still practice it every day. It's become my favorite form to do. I like all the spins and the new hand motions for getting the staff to the other side. And I like the feeling it gives me when I do a temple strike and the staff hits my shoulder. I think that it's an "A" tier poomsae and it's something that we need to know well. And it never hurts to practice too much. What's your favorite form to practice? P.S. - Can't wait for the nightmare of stick form 2 tomorrow. :/

2/23/24
2/23 quick.