Difference between the present and the past

Me about to do a tornado kick as a Bodan belt

Punching as a white belt: Before and After

These pictures are from when I was in kindergarten.  I have changed alot.  So has Kim's White Tiger.   


Look at the picture on the middle right. Look at Master Mark in the mirror, his hair is so different now! Kim's White Tiger has totally changed too.  There are now white tiger stripes on the wall and the mats are now blue and red.   Look at the picture on the bottom right...Grrr, Master B. S. Lee is pretending to fall down! Masters are more silly with young kids, like they pretend to fall down when holding targets. Now that I'm older, the masters don't pretend to fall down when holding targets. I'm glad because they know I'm actually strong, so they take me seriously.

The previous poomsaes I have done and my confidence has grown stronger since I was a white belt.  Now I need to do all of the previous poomsaes so I can teach other people how to do them.  That's different than before because I was the one who was being taught. Before I didn't need to know all of the poomsaes because I wasn't teaching anybody else. I feel excited to teach others because if I show confidence and show strong poomsaes the people who I'll teach will also have alot of confidence and have strong poomsaes.

My past is way different than now.  My confidence and my strength has grown stronger as I get older and spend more time in Tae Kwon Do.  I like the present because I am more skilled.

Me as a white belt

Me holding my card

Me as a high white belt

Black Belt Life Skill...Sacrifice

Sacrifice

             To me, sacrifice means that you give up what you want to do or do what you don't want to do because it could help yourself or others. I showed sacrifice this week when I really wanted to play video games, but my sister needed help spelling some words. I helped my sister even though I wanted to play video games. I helped my sister because I know since she's only a kindergartner, practicing spelling words will let her memorize how to spell the words, so then her grades would improve.  Sacrifice is important because if nobody gave up what was less important, they would not be able to accomplish what they want to accomplish.

Demonstration Team

DEMO TEAM                 

                                                                

We practice a lot for the demo team. We do birthday performances at the Kim's White Tiger studio (where we practice). We do performances at University Mall. Master B.S. Lee (the demo team teacher) helps me with my jumping high snap kick. I practiced so much, I was able to do it as a performance at a birthday party and at University Mall (that's the video below). I am proud that I have learned to do a jumping high snap kick because I will be able to teach other people how to do it. 

Sometimes we get hurt, like I did in this video. I put all my weight on the foot I landed on instead of both feet. My foot was literally trembling after I landed. I went off stage before I was supposed to because I didn't want my foot to be seen.  Even though it hurt, I ignored it and went on with the performance. Even though we get hurt sometimes we still continue with demo team because we can accomplish a lot.  If we practice more before the next time we do it, we won't get hurt.  

Around six months after I joined the demo team, my little sister Eri joined demo team because she thought it was really cool.  I help her with things that she needs to catch up on because I already know it. She likes the forms I teach her and I like teaching her the forms.  I am also starting to practice back handsprings and once I know that I would be very happy to teach her how to improve what she has already accomplished.