Back In Action

Alright! TKD and Kickboxing is back after a roughly three month break. It's absolutely fantastic and exiting starting this up again. I'm really excited that there are three TKD classes and two Kick Boxing classes for adults every week now. I could use the extra class time with TKD since I will (hopefully) be getting my Black Belt this winter. Kickboxing is great because it's a great workout and really makes you sweat. Tons of fun! I woke up really sore today and it feels great. I'll be back in shape in no time.

If anyone IS interested in joining, get a hold of me! I'm also trying to assemble a website for the whole deal, so once I have a decent template and more information on everything, I'll post that at a later date.

Tags: Diet, Excersize, Kick Boxing, Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do

posted at 8/13/2007 Open this article in a new window. 0 Comments


Take One For Me

Out with my wife taking pics with our Holga and Lubitel medium format cameras:



Take One For Me



For more summery-photo fun, check out my Flickr set: Part VII: Summer Fun
 

Tags: Archive_Blogger, Holga, Jacinda, Martial Arts, Minnesota, Nick, Pictures, Summer

posted at 6/25/2007 Open this article in a new window. 0 Comments


Bbalgong Tdi

Last night I successfully passed my Red Belt test in Tae Kwon Do! w00t! It was an intense test, most intense I've experienced since I started. For material, I needed to know:

Korean Terminology
Korean Counting
Korean History
American and Korean Flags information
Other Korean Oral testing stuff
30 Series (30 different combination-kicks) in three minutes
Red Belt Form

I buzzed through terminology pretty fast and without much hesitation. I kept cool and remained confident in what I could present. History is where I was lacking, but managed to remember enough! Phew!

30 series was very intense. I had to do 30 different combination kicks in three minutes. The first go-round, I was focusing too much on being fast that I made too many errors and timed out. Master gave me a 20 second breather, which from there I was to try a second time. By the time I reached the 10th combination, I was dead tired, I could hardly breathe because my mouth was so dry. Ahhh! It was nerve-wracking. I managed to make it all the way through with 2:44 on the clock, which Master Jon gave me a thumbs-up on. I was relieved, because I was kind of worried about this section.

Finally, onto the break. We had to do a double jumping front kick and break two separate boards doing so. I was able to get this completed first try. OMG it was great. I loved it. haha. In the end, I was given a Red Belt, yay.





dude doing a double front-kick

Tags: Archive_Blogger, Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do

posted at 3/20/2007 Open this article in a new window. 0 Comments


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