Sunday, October 26, 2008

The tournament in Dayton last Saturday went well. It was the best run tkd tournament outside of our school I've ever been to. We were done by 4:30. I won forms after tying for first with My Tien. We had to do our forms again at the same time and I ended up winning. Good that CTC people went 1 and 2. Sparing for most people didn't go that well. I didn't spar, but I was coaching. Most of us that went either didn't have much experience or hadn't been doing any serious sparing training recently. No one got hurt, and no one embarrassed themselves, though. Simply ran into some good competitors who were obviously training and going to lots of tournaments. I think it was kind of hard for a couple of the kids who hadn't been to a tournament before, but it was a good experience for them. All together it was a pretty good day.

Steve had his fast and meditation this week. He started the fast Wed. morning and meditated for two hours this morning. I know he's glad to have that over with. He did a good job (no cheating).

Only a few weeks until his test.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

I'm going to a tournament next Saturday in Dayton. Just doing forms...I don't train enough to spar right now. Steve has his second pretest for his black belt test tonight. The focus is on sparing and breaking. I don't know if I'll be judging or not.

Last night I had my first class as the official Wednesday night teacher. I made it relatively hard since people show up to Wed nights to get a good workout. Everyone was sweating, so I guess I accomplished the goal.

Hopefully Max and I will get a chance to run through our two person staff form. We are going to try to get it on video so the next time we forget a piece we have something to look at. At one point this summer we forgot part, and since we've changed it from the original, no one else could help us out so we just had to keep doing it until one of us remembered.