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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Tuesday

Today I started my day off by doing my morning chores then went out for a run. Today I increased my daily run up to 1.5 miles so it felt great to start increasing so I will be prepared for my physical requirements. Then I came home and worked on my exercises. After I finished my exercises I called my great-grandmother to check on her and her and see if she needed help with anything. She had some yard work she needed done so I rode my bike up to her house and spread mulch and did other things she needed done. After I finished helping her I met my friend from taekwondo at the park in my neighborhood and we played basketball until time to go to taekwondo class then we just rode to class together. I did 2 regular classes tonight and then black belt class. We had fun again with costume week at taekwondo and my new uniform came in tonight so that really made me happy. I am excited to get to wear it to class tomorrow. Then I came home and had my favorite dinner which is chicken wings then I did some meditation time and played basketball at my house with some friends for a few minutes. I start tennis lessons in the morning since I chose tennis as my new skill. I'm happy to be working towards 1 more test requirement.
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