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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That's it ...

That's it ! .. at least for today. I can't do anymore. Every muscle I have hurts. My back is starting to act real ugly too, so I don't think I should push any further.
I really hate that I have to 'listen to my body'. Or maybe I hate more that my body talks so often and so loudly.
Even still, I'm doing this!
I found out yesterday I passed the pre-test. Woo Hoo! I really was terrified about the whole thing.
The mile was freezing. My time was actually better than I had expected. I'm sure wanting to get out of the cold helped my motivation. That and I kept telling myself,
"it's black and has one gold bar". Visualize your goal. ...
I found out areas I need to work on too; the form I scored the lowest on is probably my least favorite, it must show. I also can't pull my own body weight up and I can't touch my toes in a v-position. On a positive note, the number of push-ups I did wasn't tremendous, but I did do one more than I had been doing at home it sets. I was thrilled!


Well that's it tonight. I'm beat and have an early start tomorrow.


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