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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Stormy Day

Stayed home today with my pets. Fun fact about me, my boyfriend and I have a dog, a kitten, 4 rats, and a rat in our hospital cage because we found her outside. Definitely not a wild rat, most likely someone released it outside, she very timid, won't bite, but hides under her bedding.

I didn't start doing requirements until later in the day. I slept in, then got some other errands done. I couldn't do jump ropes in my apartment, so I did penguin taps (you jump like a penguin and double tap your legs. I worked on them when I was learning how to do double jumps. It was actually tough to do that for 1 minute no stop. I did burpee with gorilla jumps, because I'm want to work on my jump kicks and explosiveness. Doing gorilla jumps in Master Marcus sparing class really helped with improving my jump kicks. 

My trapezius are sore from all the pull-up and pushup work required for the cycle.

1/10/24
Shaan Pattnaik - 1/9/24