Got my blue belt today. More importantly signed and paid for my 2 year contract and, once I return from Pittsburgh, get to start weapons and sparring! Now I have shiny blue swingie sticks (nunchaku) and a foam helmet.


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So here's my delema.

Taekwondo:

• is good for me physically: I'm feeling less pain and more ease of movement
• makes me happy: I look forward to it and usually come home feeling good
• costs money

Taiko:

• was physically damaging: both my arm issue and hearing loss
• was causing me tons of stress: I still watch them not getting enough help from people, the ( Read more... )

My Taekwondo school has been talking a lot about completions lately. With the exception of demo team, I do not want to compete. One of the things I hated when I was fencing was we would be required to compete as women, even if there were only two women who show up. Once we had only two sabre women's teams and to keep us from getting bored they ( Read more... )

I feel I should post an update, because it's been a while an many things have been happening ( Read more... )

I feel like such a bag of excuses at TKD because of my knees and wrists (luckily my back and neck haven't really factored into it and my shoulder has bugged me, but not enough to really change anything) but the truth is TKD is actually bothering my knees less than just flat out running was and my pushup bars mostly make the wrists mute (I tried ( Read more... )

I took a trial class with CWTKD tonight ( Read more... )