Right Shoulder Injury :(

I didn't know that i would be walking out of my dojang with a kinda major injury well to me it is! I when to class on 12/6/10 i made it through the beginners class fine but it was the advance class that did go to good intill the last few minutes of class! We were grapplin gon the floor & some how i got out of it but then we when for it again as this little dude somehow turned me my right shoulder / arm went into a totally weird position & he was putting all hes weight on my right side then of a sudden i heard a crack!!! i was yelling in a very soft voice to stop but he kept on going intill i said it for the second time! good thing my KJN was right there! He's studying sports therapy & he checked it out! I couldn't hardly drive home it was soo painful!! i then tried to go to work the next day but once i got there i realized that i needed to go to the docs & rest this shoulder. The doc ordered X-rays & i didn't have a dislocated shoulder nether did i fracture the bone. Then i went to this other doc & he told me that i didn't tear anything but i would be out for a good 6 wks or more! He gave me some exercises to do. Im been doing some of them & i can see the improvement!! but hopefully i can test on Jan 15th if not when i get back they are going to allow me to do a make up test! During that 1st couple of weeks i kinda got into a light depression cause i wanted to go to class but i knew i can't! :( But that has passed. Now my shoulder still hurts but not like a few weeks ago! I wonder how do i know that it is all healed up? of course the pain will be gone tho but still how do i know! i guess im gonna have to call the doc's nurse & ask her to talk to the doc himself!
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Injury / Blue Belt Test Preparation

Its been awhile since I have posted & though I would give ya'll an up-to-date on what ive been up to in kuk sool!!! Well the last post that I had injured myself by doing an inside kick. Well it took a few days to heal & was totally fine buy the time Monday rounded around.


I kept my main focus on my sohn Mohk Soo’s & my spin kick as well but now im more focused on my blue belt form more than anything! For I have to do the FULL FORM but the only thing is I don’t know at least half of it.!!! My testing is less or equal to a month’s time away!!! Im still kinda worried about the spin kick in general but that’s only one of 2 things that I have to do perfectly to get my blue belt! The 1of 1 is that super hard spin kick! I don’t care what anyone says about that one kick. Its different for everyone what I mean is it could be super easy for some & super hard for others & well im one in the super hard group but im trying though. The thing that is im discovering that my left is better then my right kinda I think. But im still searching & still discover which leg is my strongest leg for this one specific kick in general! For when I do find it then that one leg right or left would be the one in which I will do the break on.

Im not even yet worried or even started studying the terminology part of the test yet! But it may start catching up to me.

I hurt my left wrist again! I did it by actually I have no idea well maybe it had something to do with the techniques that we were going over for an whole week! BUT the good news is that its returning to normal on a fast pace! Hopefully in 2 or less days I wouldn’t have to wear this wrist bandage on it! Well tonite’s class & for the rest of the week is all Sparring & Grappling!   In which I sometimes don’t really enjoy but im beginning to do a transaction into actually liking sparring & all that good stuff! But for sure im going to be wearing a forearm pad & a everlast gel hand pad that is for grappling.

The Good thing is Ive got all the sohn mohk soo’s down & now I have to just get them in it memory / muscle memory as well!!!

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Monster + KSW Class = Hyperness Disaster

What a crazy nite in class i had! I tell ya it was loco ( 미친 )!!!
So we did our warm ups & one of them was a full bridge but i thought i would go a step farther & go for an advanced bridge like in the book that im reading that has stretches - Ultimate Flexibility a complete guide to stretching for martial arts! So i did!

So they paired us up & well i was paired up with a person that has a lot of humor!! Mix that with a person thats SUPER HYPER and u get a hilarious partner team that at one moment makes u laugh & then next they make you laugh ! We were still doing all the drills that the PSBN was telling us to do. But the hyper thing only lasted for a little bit! But it would come back now & then.

That nite i learned alot of  new material that i never got into like weapon training - wooden sword! After JKN had shown us the steps & told us to put them together. I did the steps slowly & then i started to put it all together like a mini dance! & i tell ya i was flowing i could sense that the JKN was watching me closely but i didn't mind at. It looked pretty darn good if u asked me since it was my 1st time i had ever trained with such a weapon! That was soo much fun. I totally enjoyed that part about class besides all the jumping , kicking & gymastic material that nite.That nite i when straght home & after changing out of my KSW outfit i immdeity when on the internet to start the search for the perfect wooden sword for training during & out!!!
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Injured Hand OMG!

I just can't believe that i  ''self-injured " myself just by doing a left inside kick last Friday nite in Kuk Sool!!! Plus thats not the worst thing that happened that nite either!!! It happened after we did our warm ups & then it happened when we were doing our kicks!!! After all that kicking drills PSBN was telling us what we were going to do that nite & where we were to go but I was drowning all that out & focusing on my injured hand. Evaluate the damage that was done & see how bad it was also thinking about a plan to get through the class since that nite was techniques & forms! As i was looking at it & feeling the swollen palm & vein that seemed to ( to me) poped out of place in which was totally werid looking & disgusting !!! But it didn't look that bad but after i finished the class u can see the vein it was raised up & it was burised too! like purpleish & blackish & blueish!!!


So we were paired up or I was paired up with William the little hyper dude! LOL so the PSBN told us that techniques to start working on. So William grips my wrist / hand real tight! Im like “ don’t grip my hand that tight my hand is injured!”

We were doing Sohng Mohk Soo !!!  I got through the class! But now my palm & vein are healed!

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Fake Nails In KSW??

Im just wondering if anyone out there that is in Kuk Sool Won that had wore ( or is wearing) fake nails in class & was able to do everything like u could if u didn’t have them on. The only reason why im asking this is because I would like to get my nails done for my birthday but like a week before. Is it a totally bad idea to do so because I wouldnt like to hurt myself if we were doing takedowns ~ falls ~ rolls ~ Jump rolls ~ grappling etc??? Anyone have advice on this???
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Creativity In Kuk Sool Won

So I finally turned in my dobok or my jacket for the patches to be sewn on to the it! I got the last set of the old patches yippee!!! See the school is now wearing the new ones but in my terms I don’t really like them at all no offense or anything!! ( even though they are to make the school to stand out above all the other Kuk Sool Won Schools. But I know for Christmas I will be getting a new dobok & the patches ( new ones) work too!! The instructors told us that when our doboks or jackets are being worked on or if its too hot we will have to wear a black t-shirt. They don’t mind any design as long as its not religious So while my dobok is being worked on I decided to design a few t-shirts ok well 6 of them! I love designing t-shirts!!! Its just one of my other things that I do! They are very cute ! I can’t wait intill tonite when I go to class!!! Im gonna be wearing the Kuk Sool Won Princess one that I designed last nite. Well I designed all of them during Tuesday but later that nite I actually went to work on it. It didn’t take me about one hour to do it that’s because I was using a sharpie !!! But for my other ones im gonna go to hobby lobby & get some fabric pens or something better then the sharpies! Cause I don’t know if they are going to fade in the wash! But how many times am I actually going to wear them??? Well we will see what happens & if in deed they fade I will go & get some fabric pens & just go over that I had already done with the sharpie!


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Unforgettable Yellow Belt Blue Stripe Testing!

The Nite before I was practicing all the things that I thought was going to be on the test . After I finished previewing my ki bohn soo & sohn mohk soo I went into my white belt forms & was fine all intill the last one! I tend to over kick & sometimes miss the target completely (aka my hand!) but this time I hit my knuckle joins & man did that hurt!! But I still did my final form which was my yellow belt form The testing wasn’t as hard or as bad as I thought it would be! I thought PSBN Joe was going to drill me on the terminology part of the test! There was only one thing that I got half right. But what really killed my brain in the testing was the Ki Bohn Soo’s !!! I knew all of them I studied hard core all last week even the nite before I did a overview of everything I though was going to be on the test! I did all the Ki Bohn Soo’s right but when I was in the testing my mind is blanketed on me as well as froze up too!!! He told me that I can miss 3 but I if I miss 4 or more then I can still go through the testing but would have to reschedule it for next’s months testing. So im thinking oh boy! So I started & I knew that I missed about 3 or more but he allowed me to do them in order & I only missed about 2! Plus I did all my sonh mohk soo’s perfect! Then he surprised me by telling me Miss Lu now do a front hand spring & I can remember saying out loud oh boy!


But I gave it my best! We also did Dee Nak Bob with a back shoulder roll outs as well as front rolls, kicks, pyramid kicking , cartwheels _ He also surprised me with Miss Lu now do 3 one handed cartwheels –( im not that great at them but like the front hand spring I gave it my best!)& forms. It was weird that my instructor told me that I would only have to do the first part of the yellow form but another time he said the whole thing. So when I did my yellow form there was this one small part in it that I didn’t get but after that small part I knew the rest of the form so I made up my mind the nite before that I would just make up a move then go on with the rest of the form & that’s what I did!

But the fun part was when I had to spar ! There was this other guy there which he was small & not as tall as I am! I had such an awesome time sparring with him!!! I did some awesome kicks as well as a spin kick! But the funniest thing was that he didn’t have the gear & had to use some of the schools gear which the gloves were PINK yes I said PINK I was laughing off my head even though I had my mouth guard in! lol plus I got it on video too which makes it even more funnier! SO everything was over & PSBN Joe told us to take off our jackets & fold it up the traditional way which I never was teach at all since I started Kuk Sool Won! But I did get a lesson that day. So I took it off trying to remember that one day when I was waiting for the kids class to get out. They were teaching them how to fold up their jackets the traditional way. SO I started to make it the way I remembered that day. SO the other guy starts copying what im doing. Then PSBN Joe comes out of the office & was helping hem with the jacket & im trying to watch as well as do it too! So I finally got it. Then he did the ceremony & now I am a yellow belt blue stripe!!!

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YellowBelt Blue Stripe Testing - Execited~Nervous~Scared

Im Studying hard core for my up coming Testin in which is TOMORROW!!! Im excited, nervous & scared!

For i have been studying hard core ever since Monday! I have no clue of to what to except even though i have went through 2 other testings but now there are added on requirements - Terminology & Sparring!



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Yellow Belt - Last Day

This is the last day that i will be a yellow belt just looking back on my yellow belt training even though it was just like a 4 month period.  There were some good moments , Funny moments & some times of feeling like giving up but always pressing on!  Even though I would say that I feel like giving up but in my heart I know I will press on even though some times might seem tough & rough to the point were I don’t think I can make it through!
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Pre-Test Thoughts

Well there I am again panicky studying out my heart again at the last minute! I tell ya its been one of the most craziest couple of weeks before my testing! So had that I forgot everything but even though I had come to training last week it seemed to me like I wasn’t all there due to a situation that I was in & those of you how do know knew what I went through!

But im preparing the best that I can prepare myself for the test this Saturday!


The one thing that I can’t find out is how to say uniform in Korean for Kuk Sool Won = Dobok !
Do ya know how to say it????
I feel like im buggin my instructor a lot but im glad im asking all of these questions cause im finding out more & more requirements that are going to take place in my testing!!! OMG!!!!
So I did a little research ( correct me if im wrong ) & found out that the reason why we wear black uniforms is because in Korea white represents / associated with death.

I also found out that our uniforms are much stronger than TKD but lighter than Judo!
I found out of this out on this website : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_Sool_Won
Now The other question that remains unanswered as of right now is this :
Kuk Sool Won translates is National Martial Arts Association or is it Korean National Arts Association. Which one is the right one??

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OMG back to training

Ive been a little bit lazy i have to admit ! I didn't go to Kuk Sool for well to be a long time it felt like but it was like about a week & 3 dayz. But im right back into training again thanks to one of my co-worker who is also taking a korean martial arts & he kicked some sense into me ~ talkingwise!!! I have seen the effectives of NOT GOING FOR A LONG TIME WHAT IT CAN DO TO YA!    I have almost lost every thing that i have learned!!! OMG!! But the good thing is that the forms are starting to come back to my memory but its going to be a little bit tougher for the techniques like the ki bohn so 1-15 all the way up to the yellow belt techniques. But im going to have to belt up & get serious about it since my teacher found out that i went to schlitterbahn the day of my testing. He made me a deal i could come in early & work with some of the other teachers just on the things i will be tested on & then i would test on Oct 16th!!!But the school that i go to made a new rule that was in effect way before my testing time. So i really didn't get in trouble about it. See we have to fill out a sheet & turn that i with the $20 a week before our testing weekend . So the result is that we have the power to either wait & test later or test on time.
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Change Is a Comin!

My school is going through a lot of changes going from making new rules to changing - new requirements for testing - new uniforms!


Last nite was awesome at the middle of the advanced class the instructor told us to go get our staffs so I bowed out & got it as I reentered with a bow I did noticed that some ppl were looking at my totally cool staff. We were just warming up & there wasn’t any part of the warm up that was a big changllen intill later. After we were all done. He asked everyone & I told him I knew 1-5 & just the very beginning of it plus I demonstrated it for him cause he asked to see it.

So I got most of the stuff that they were doing then at one point he asked me to join the other 2 in the back of the class who were just spinning the staff in form 1.



After class I was approached & asked a question from a lower belt so I answered his question & we talked about the new testing requirements. In which I almost flipped out about it cause it showed that I had to do 11 of the yellow belt techniques & a few weeks before all this started to happened the PSBN Joe told me that I just had to do 1-5. So afterwards I asked one of the 3 instructors if this new requirements are in effect now or after my next testing? Which he told me it would be for the next one. Now my stress level is like a 8 vs. above a 10!

I still don’t know all the stances & I do know some of the strikes & just need to learn about 3 for the kicks! I know ahp cha ki / yup cha ki / dee cha ki but I can’t say them the right way thought.

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Terminology OMG!!!

If im correct which i will find out to nite i will have to memorize & try my best to pronounce 18-20 korean terms correctly! OMG! I don't really know if i can! cause of all the over stress of the different parts of the test! Good EX : i knew & still know the student creed but last time when i was in my testing & i felt all eyes on me (which i found out later was true) my mind when totally blank on me! Then the instructor just said one word of the starting creeds ( which there is 3) asfter that i was totally fine! BUt i don't know about this new part of the testing in which i will be testing in about a month an 3 weeks!!!!
What are some good tips/tricks for learning the kicks / strikes/ stances in korean??
Any good websites that are for korean martial arts terminology????
HELP Please thanks.
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Stress Level

Right now im tightening my belt & getting down to business on learning what I need to know to pass my testing in September. My stress level was at a 10 but now its like at 8 ½ now cause my PSBN Instructor told me that I only have to know 1-5 Sohn Mohk Soo to pass. Then he had me do my Ki Cho Hyung in the right stance!!! It took me awhile to get it all done all 6 plus I went ahead & did the yellow belt form as well. After I was done he told me that this would be on my test as well & now my stress level is at a 9! OMG!!!




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1st Time Sparring!

I though that it was going to be very painful & all but i was soo wrong. I guess i was in the thinking mode of the worst case scenario. But when they would be just teaching us basic sparring its totally different from grappling but this is more fast pace! & for one I get out of breath very easy! But I beared through the class & listened to the instructors on what they had to say as of advice & teaching wise for me as a newie to sparring!!! I was just a tad bit nervous & all. But the overall I did great for a 1st timer!!! Im real good at the kicks then the punching but as time goes on I will get better at it. But one thing that I have noticed is I have a killer kick but I just got to learn how to use it in sparring as well as other kicks too! Plus condition it as well!!




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Me Teaching OMG!!!!

Tuesday nite I drove to class like normal went in & started doing my regular routine which is put my bag in a cubbie hole & got out my scrunchie & pulled my hair had in a ponytail then took my hair band & put it on. Then I would put my jacket on next & was I was tying the inside tie & noticed I had my pants on inside out! OMG!!! So I walked causally to the women’s restroom & put them on correctly ( on the right side)! So I was waiting for my other fellow yellow belt to come in but there wasn’t any of them that showed up by the time 8:15 rounded around. So I knew almost all do the 4 white belts that were there that nite. SO I go into class like usual warmed up just by running around the practice area. & after we were done with our regular warm ups after doing a light jog he spilt up the class & all the white belts came over & so did I & he was arranging every one & he told me to come to the front center X & of course like usual I didn’t know what was going on intill he told us & he asked me if I knew all my white belt forms & I responded yes sir! Then it hit me that I was going to teach them all the forms or just 1 or 2 so I was a little nervous cause he was watching us well more me then them!!!! All in all I did ok guiding or instructing them. & after class was let out he came over to me & asked me how I liked it. & I told him something like this : It was ok or something like that. He told me not to be shy & that I did great!!!!



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Bo Staff

2 weeks ago I asked my sensei when I could order my Bo Staff . He said I could order it anytime! So what I like to do is always ask or double check with my sensei before I go ordering something. But that’s just me lol. As he was talking to me another question popped into my mind so I asked him. I though I would have to wait intill im a blue belt to order my bo staff. He told me that is just for the kids. Its kinda funny that im the only yellow belt that has a bo staff. I guess that one Saturday morning class when he saw me spinning the bo staff & saw the potential that I had plus my background ability to spin different things – baton , twirling flags, & of course the big push broom that something when outside & bored when sweeping leafs would spin that big thing around. Well last Thursday I got my Bo Staff in the mail via UPS . It’s the most beautiful bo staff ive ever saw! But it’s the fanciest in my class cause others just have plain ones 7 others have the rattan bo staff that have the starry design on it. My bo staff is kinda heavy I guess a medium heaviness .


I just can’t wait to bring it to class!!! Yahooo!!! Yea!

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PUT ON THE SPOT

Tuesday nite at class ( techniques & forms)  my sensei divided up the class which were white belts & yellow belts come with me & blue belts & up go to the other side of the practice area. So the minority of the class was all white belts & of course 2 yellow belts. So he placed me in the front row . We were doing the warm ups that we always do then HE made me count in Korean 1-10!!! OMG I think I actually said double words but then again after I was finished counting he said good job Lu. So I guess I actually counted in Korean right. Yea!!! Then after doing some more warm ups he left the dojan & told me to continue &  like froze up! But I had the group keep rotating their ankles then strengthening it out. When he walked back in he told me good job Lu. & continued the warm ups. Then he put me on the spot again! He told me to do a round house kick. & of course I did an outside kick. Then I did a round house kick! For some reason I keep getting those 2 kicks mixed up! OMG!!! Plus I refreshen on the 1st form of Cho Geup Hyung. The class was fun!!! Ever since I have passed my testing for my yellow belt all I want to do is go to class 24 \ 7 !!!!




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Yellow Belt TESTING 6/19/10

The Week of the testing I was studying hardcore & some how I managed to learn the 1st part of Cho Geup Hyung ( yellow belt form) & got it memorized too!!! I also learned some Sohn Mohk Soo which are wrist techniques yellow belt level!!!


I went to all my classes that week!

Friday Evening : I came home and I was on my laptop trying to get the internet to work & decided to go outdoors & tan. There were still some sun rays in the back yard so I hurried & got my tanning lotion on & my swim suite on. & got outdoors. I relaxed outdoors for almost an hour. Tanning relaxes me & I forget about my troubles & problems that imp facing right now this moment or then. So I when in got the internet to work then chilled for a while when on face book & other sites. Then decided to have someone drill me so that I will be ready for the testing tomorrow ( Saturday 19th ). So they drilled me on my forms & then my techniques & even mixed them up & all.

In the real early morning I woke up at 6:10am! So I when to the restroom & went back to bed but little did I know that I was going to get woken up off & on for about an hour & a half!!! By my mom opening & slamming the door to her room which my room is at the end of the hallway & hers is to the left. So after about 1 ½ hours of flipping & turning I just though forget it trying to get some more sleep so I just got up! I did my usual routine which is to check my e-mail go onto facebook update my status & go onto yoville . Then I took a bath & got ready & ate something then was waiting & waiting around the house for my mom to get ready but it was drawing closer & closer to the testing time!!! I only live about 5 mins way but it takes her forever to get ready! So my grandma was ready & I was ready so I told her that we will see ya down there. So we left. & I had to fly down there cause of the time. So when I walked in I didn’t see the other white belt yellow stripe people that were supposed to be testing!!! I knew my one friend wasn’t going to test but I asked this other one & he told me he would be there. The other people that were there for testing was 2 red belts! OMG!! I was thinking now I have to depend on my own knowledge that I have in Kuk Sool. I didn’t even have time to tape my toes. But I did set up my tripod & put my digital camcorder on it. I was real nervous & was dropping everything & was a little bit shakily like a leaf kinda. So I pressed the record button on my camcorder & bowed in & started to jog lightly around the practice area. We started to do our warm-ups & after that we had to get in a horse stance & do palm strikes as well as knife strikes then standing in a left stance we had to do a knife barrel & of course I was all nervous so much that I was messing up when he said left over right I had right over left! OMG at that point I was thinking that I wasn’t going to pass / belt up for sure & have to retake the test!! But I still pressed on though I was messing up. Then we had to do a back fall from a sitting position on the floor & he told me just to do the back fall & he told the 2 red belts to do the back fall & a back shoulder roll. Well I did just the back fall but since I did know how to do a back shoulder roll I thought I would go ahead & show them what I can do!!! I don’t know if that was a good thing to go ahead & do that when he only instructed me to just do the back fall & not back shoulder roll. But oh well. The next thing we had to do was doing cartwheels continuous from front to back ! I did great going one way & I saw that the guy next to me switched feet & I didn’t so it resulted in looking like a kid first learning how to do a cartwheel!!! Then we had to do our Ki Cho Hyung 1-6 so I did then the other guys where doing something else then one of the JKN Thomas told me to go over to the window facing the parking lot & do my Ki Cho Hyung 1-6 in that direction then he had me do it the left wall then to the right wall then he pulled me over to the side & had me do my techniques. He asked me how many I knew ( I knew & know all 15) but for some totally odd reason 6 came out of my mouth!

Gee I guess u can really tell I was nervous ! yipes!! So after I did all my techniques or up intill 6 I was waiting on him to tell me to go & do #7 but then he when back to KSN Joe & he was talking to him. So JKN Thomas came back & told me what we were going to do. Before we started once more on the techniques I told him I knew all 15 of Ki Bohn Soo. So he randomly called out a number & I would have to do the technique . I think I heard KSN Joe tell JKN Thomas that if I miss 3 or something then I would have to retake the test. ! I did confused 3 up with 4 but I got it right !! Then he asked me of I knew any of the Sohn Mohk Soo I told I knew 3. ( but I got that mixed up with another wrist techniques!) so I did what I thought was them which it wasn’t at all! Then everyone sat down & was tested on the breathing part was well as the breathing positions which I barely knew at all! Then KSN Joe asked me how many steps are in form 1 & I gave him a guessed number & he went on to ask the red belts how many steps ate in the red belt form then asked me how many steps are in the 3rd form & once again I gave him a guessed number. Then he made us get up a count the steps of form3 when we did it & of course I just repeated the number that the guy next to me said. Then came time for the student creed reciting ! my mind when completely blink on me so JKN helped me out just the first two words of the first part of it & then my mind turned on & I said it all! JKN Thomas & I walked over to the padded poll & he was teaching me on how to do a palm strike so I practiced a few times then he led out his hand as if it was the board & practiced a few times like that. Then he when & got the board. & of course my mom & my aunt were nervous & worried that I wasn’t ready or able to do it. So I got into a left stance I a tried to break it a few times just like he instructed me to. But KSN Joe noticed something that I was doing that was wrong so he came over & told me what I was doing wrong & showed me what was the correct way to do it. After a few practice runs the very 1st try I did break it! Oh and by the way the 2 red belts was in a kneeling attention watching me!! Then came time for the ceremony ! JKN Thomas told me to take off my belt so I did he gave it to KSN Joe & as he as tying it JKN was putting the new belt on me then KSN Joe came over & put the old belt on my left shoulder. Then I bowed out. So everyone there what was supporting me was soo amazed that I actually broke the board! Aunt Sandy told me that I should have the to instructors sign it. So my mom got KSN Joe & JKN Thomas to sign it!

In the end result I got the yellow belt & a hoarse voice !  :( Which im NOT to happy about!!




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Thoughts on Yellow Belt Testing

Ok so I'm not really nervous but i have all the forms covering & memorize but i need to certain moves in the beginning of form 4 & 5 !!! BUT the techniques are a totally different thing!!! I kinda know the pattern of which the techniques fall under but not some of them!! i know 1-7. But i have to work on memorizing 8-15 the way they fall under  (EX 8-15) . Im kinda nervous about the techniques & what if i get a mind blanket during the testing in the technique part!!!! I have to do it in order cause i wouldn't know that was next if i have to skip it & come back later to that one that i skipped!!!!! OMG!!! I get the reality is starting to set in!!! & i guess I'm getting testing butterflies now!!! I guess i will be memorizing drilling on the techniques let alone the student creed!!!!
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Good Advice From A Friend

I took up some advice from my friend so now i am making my own notebook. I have 2 actually 1st for forms & the 2nd one is for Techniques! Its a really great idea to do this! You can write the forms & techniques by memory & that is another way to memorize the techniques & forms!!

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More awesome class moments

So i decided to go to class & i was glad i did.  So i had enough time to get there but then i had a problem with the crash can truck. After getting through with that trash truck problem i had to really fly down the road!! I only had about 3 mins to get the class!! Then i get  stuck behind this person driving like 30mph when it was like 40 mph! I go to the light & i couldn't have made it through if the slow poke wasn't driving soo slow! so the light at the intersection had to wait out the intersection rotation or flowation! So finally when the red light turned green it was 9:59am So i flew into the parking lot & ran into the doja! When i was rushing into the doja i noticed that everyone had their sparring gear as well as their training weapons! I felt soo uneasy cause i though we were going to sparr that day. But when i saw this one guy walk in & saw that he didn't have his sparring gear i felt alittle bit relieved. After we bowed in to class & after warm-drills & then the senei told us to get our bo staff & once again i froze in total awesomeness that he was talking to everyone in the room! ( i though i had to be at a specific belt to be able to start training with that one weapon!) I grabbed a bo staff & as he gave the instructions. He pulled me & the other guy over & started to teach us the basics of bo staff spinning then he teach us how to spar with the staff! We were doing awesome then i saw my other senei which he was watching us constantly & finally came over & told us that we had rhythm & our height was almost the same height as my other partner! & on top of everything he told us that he wants us to come to Saturday practices every weekend & he was going to use us as a demo!!!!!

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surprising awesomeness in class

I had the most fun tonite then ever before!!! There were only 3 ladies including me. So my senei told us to go & get a staff & I just kinda stood there in total awesomeness thinking ok is he really talking to me to besides the other 2 ladies there!! My sensei teach me 1-4 staff forms which is super easy to remember!!!  It was supper fun!!!
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From Stressed - Mind At Ease

After last nite at Kuk Sool Won im soo pumped up as well as my confidence about the testing that’s going to take place June 19th 2010. We went over Hyung(s) all assorted ones for different belt ranks. For me though it was Ki Cho Hyung 1-6 . I have 6 pretty much down now all I have to do is just go over , over , over & OVER them so that when its time I can just automatically start doing the forms my sensei calls out! & not have to double think ok what step is next! I did my first ever hip throw! Yea :p . I can’t wait to see the expressions on my familys’ faces when I do the hip throws as well as the 6th form!! Gee 1st I was all stressed out about this coming up testing & now im like soo excited about it now. I just have to buckle down & get those techniques learned & memorized! I do think I have enough time to do it!

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Stressin About Testin

The past week ive been stressing out as well as freaking out how I was going to be prepared for the test that is just around the corner for me. As Im testing on the 3rd weekend in June. The one thing that’s stressing me out is the number of the techniques I have to do by memory! I have to know all 15 techniques & well I should know them by now but like I was 3 months ago I had them down & packed but the one thing about that was that I only had to do 5 of Ki Bohn Soo techniques but now I have to do all of them! Even now I still have 3 weeks to go & I guess I was overwhelming myself too much!!! But I got a plan after talking to a friend of mine. I will take 3 at a time & study them real hard & all. I guess the only reason why im stressing about the test is cause I had 2 dreams of my test that well didn’t go so good.

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Time To get Serious

As time winds down i can hear the invisible clock's hands noise counting down the time intill my testing once more. This time over a 2 week period i had 2 dramatic dreams!!! The 1st one went like this :
Dream 1:
It was a big open room with many many kids in there of all ages and all dressed in their Kuk Sool Won uniforms & then they gathered us up & into the practice area we went and as we were going in there i was thinking in my head omg i don't know everything that i need to know to pass. my group got up & started to do the forms & i could remember the forms so i was looking parallel in a way that the senseis couldn't tell. Also i could feel the presents of my family & friends watching as we were being tested!
Dream 2 :
I was in the practice area & doing one of the forms &after doing a few moves within that form i couldn't remember what move was next in that form. I felt the presents of one of my sensei's standing right there!!!
This has never happened to me! Having these to dreams like this! Plus i know how they are going to be testing & I'm kinda comfortable with the way they run the testing process & everything!

Anyways i went to class last nite & before my class started i was practicing my forms more specifically form 4-5 then i did a run through of 1-5.
I'm not really that worried about the forms but more so of the Techniques!!! I have to do 1-15 & well for sure i know 1-6 no brainer for that! But for the rest of them OMG i only know parts of pieces of the techniques or better just nothing at all!!! So i really have to buckle down and get serious if i want to pass!
I don't even know that technique 8 is !!! OMG
How should i study to memerize all 15 techniques?  What ways are there to remember them all when im in the testing????? Any Good Advice from the higher belts out there????
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kuk sool won lesson & Gods lesson

On Monday nite I drove to my Kuk Sool Won school for class that nite & as I drove to my class I noticed grayish clouds moving in & didn’t think twice about it. I was getting ready for class & my sensei had me meet someone new but later did I know she was a returning student! We talked up a storm. Before the class started I noticed the once gray clouds now a dark navy blueish grayish clouds as it was coming in. So we were warming up & a lighting blot shot through the sky. We were doing a light jog & I couldn’t keep my eyes off the storm clouds & I almost ran in the to poll! Now we have mirrors on one wall which shows the parking lot. & through the class I saw every so often lighting shooting through the clouds. By the end of class there were more lighting strikes then when we were warming up!! It was very pretty to watch. So I decided that when I got home I would try to capture the lighting in a photo. The end results weren’t what I though they would be. Its more difficult then fireworks!
I have some ideas of what to try next but i DO need a storm like on Monday nite! I asked God to help me out on this part how to capture the lighting using a DSLR & well im kinda getting there.
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KSW HomeWork While Out Of Town

As many of ya know I have to drive up to a small town outside of Dallas TX. For family medical reasons. But that will put me out of one weeks’ (or my 3 day week classes) Kuk Sool Won school. Its getting closer to the testing time for me again. Which will be in the 3rd weekend in June. Even tho its about a month away I like to start getting serious (buckle down) about learning everything that will be on the test about a month before. So I planned on practicing my forms while up there. I got this idea that just maybe my sensei will lend me his textbook vol. 1 so that I can study up here. Well it happened that he did allow me to take it with me.

So yesterday I went to class & after class was over I asked the sensei for homework. I also told him about the situation & y I wasn’t going to be at class next week. So he gave me some homework . But not was expecting tho.

I was planning on having one of my sensei’s show me ki cho hyung #6 but I was totally off guard when he told me to show him 4 -5 & I did. But he told me that for homework that he wanted me to be more patient instead of wanting to learn this & that all the time. He also told me y he wasn’t going to show me the 6th form of Ki Cho Hyung. I totally understand now.

My home work is to practice my horse stance as well as the palm striking ( to know what each one is used for etc) . Plus work on my forms 4-5 (not just a walk through but believe in every strike step in the form do it slow.).



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I though THIS NITEMARE was OVER?!?

(A Few Weeks Ago = Some Time in April)

I though the nightmare was over !! As I walked into my school I saw this guy there just watching the other class non-blinkingly & I though to myself as I walked pass him. Man he does look familiar to me. Where did I see him before. Then I though he was the guy from that one class that had an guest instructor but I just though na that’s not him. But I kept going back & fort in my mind about him & y he looks soo familiar.


I was at class & during it I saw this guy just standing there & just watching the class then at the end of it dawned on me that it was the guest instructor that gave me hell in just one class that made me pled & begged with God to give me strength to get me through that class!!! I just couldn’t believe he was there AGAIN! That guy has NO mercy on anyone!! I feel soo sorry if he is an instructor somewhere! It took about 2 weeks for the bruise to go away!

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KSW ASSOCICATION CHANGES KUK SOOL WON!

I was informed on Monday or Tuesday of this week either before class or after class that the Kuk Sool Won association is changing somewhat of the techniques & the moves with in the forms!!!  See i had ordered a text book to help me before my 1st testing. But it didn't come & it still hasn't come & was informed like i said above before class or after class that the Kuk Sool Won association is rewriting all the text books!!!! I'm kinda outraged by this all! But my Sensei has told us everything & he explained that as a school he as the right to either stand up & say no or just go along with the changes that the Kuk Sool Won association is making in the Kuk Sool Won style. They are going soo far as to changing the uniforms too!!! But my Sensei said that he is going to be against it cause he wants to continue to teach the traditional way. For there are stories & history behind every movement within Kuk Sool Won! & I'm soo glad that he's doing that. He also explained that -that would mean he wouldn't be in the Kuk Sool Won association or the association over him. When my book comes I'm probably going to make new changes to it. so that it would be the traditional way instead of this more modern way that the Kuk Sool Won association thinks it should be teach now instead of the ancient way that it has been teach for hundreds hundreds & hundreds of years!!!! But my biggest worry or fear is would i still be able to get my black belt & if not would he just hold it in our school & not go to the main one in Tomball TX to get tested for the black belt because of the change that he is soooo against!!! 
I wonder if they are going to change the patches as well!!! For i want the traditional ones!!!
I realized at that moment after my Sensei told us that & what he is going to do that i was in the right school that God wanted me to be in!!!

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Driving to Classes

Ya know the funny thing is almost every time I’m either coming to class or going home I’m getting in almost near messes!!! Specifically Wednesday nite ( 14th of April) coming home!!! I was at a major inter selection in my city that I live in. Anyways I had the right-a-way & as I started to get into the middle of the inter selection this car comes flying out & almost hits me!! I hook my car horn but luckily we didn’t ended up face to face car wise. Plus he was suppose to me yielding me in the first place!


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Wisdom From One Of My Senseis'

Last nite at Kuk Sool Won we were broken into two groups. So my group was mostly all white belts & only 2 people out of that group were white belt yellow stripe (one of which was me! lol). We did form 1 thats all we did & some drills. But i got to improve my form . Which its almost at the state of being prefect!!! But when he asked us who here learned something. Of course some of the white belts raised their hands but I didn’t because being an upper belt I felt awkward about it so I didn’t even tho I did learned something. He had to do the form 1 20times & before that he broke us up into 2 lines or groups. We had to move together kata together count together!!!  He said something that night that I will never forget. Here he is giving is wisdom. But I can’t remember if it was said word to word like this but it was something like this. - 

Martial arts is not just another after school activity & you don't form around it. You make time for it. You let it form around your life. It a way of life!

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Not the Newie Here!

Last week we were getting some new members in.

I was preparing for class & before class my sensei said to me right after I bowed into go warm up before class. He told me that he wanted me to meet this person so I followed him out of the dojang & met this lady & he told me to be her partner through out the class & make her feel welcome. So we talked a little bit be fore ( I reentered with a bow) into the dojang & was helping her stretching as well as answering any questions that she had. Now I know how it is to train someone when the class is going a little bit ahead but luckily it was just grappling! :)

So she was asking me all kinds of questions & of course I didn't mind at all!! I told her how I found the style of martial arts & what I read online about if the style you picked is the right style but anyways. like I was saying I told her how then after settling one Kuk Sool Won & then doing the research for the school closest to me. When we were doing something & stopped & asked me Lu what is shrimpping & i showed her without the sensei noticing to much or not at all.  But even tho im a white belt yellow stripe i can still train someone! I would like to partner up with her again & train her the white belt forms!!! I can remember my first 3 months i wanted an upper belt to help me out with the form training!!

I did tell her about the testing saying that u have to learn 1-3 forms & 1-5 techniques but i reinsured her that within that amount of time she will have it down to pass! But the one thing i wished i told her was to go to a testing to see what its going to be like. Thats what i didn't do & i was all freaked out & worried to the max!!!  After class was done i asked her if she would be coming to the next one & she told me she would but never showed but you know stuff can happen but i wonder if i actually scared her? Any advice on what to do the next time my sensei wants me to partner up with a newie?? What should i say & what not to say.
Thanks

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Weight Loss Thoughs

As most of  ya'll know Easter is pretty much over!! But the candy is still around the house!!! That is due to my Aunt giving my grandma candy &chocolate!! Its always hard to resist the chocolate & candy as well as potato chips!!  I don't know if i can lost anything because of this! Cause it would be like this : pig out then work out & work off that i pigged out on! So i just i have to get some will power somewhere but where though???
But on the other hand everything around me no matter where i go people are like are you losing weight . U look great what are u doing!, Something looks different about you! I guess that Kuk Sool Won is really toning up my stomach area as well as other parts of my body! yea!!!
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Happy At Last!

The storm that I though was going to be rough turned out to dissipated & clear up!!!


What I was talking about above refers to the previous post.

When I went to class last nite everything was back to normal!! I was soo relived & happy too!!!

That class was the most fun class that i have ever been to since I started there! there were only 3 of us girls that nite. So we were practicing this one technique that u do after the person kicks to the side of u. It was soo much fun. So my sensei showed us girls a little bit more. then we were practicing on each other going around in a circle intill he told all of us to stop then he had us girls line up & then he had the boys or shall I say guys or victims lol. line up be height according to our height! Then they came & kicked & we blocked & caught the kick then we took a step forward & jammed our elbow into their thigh!!! lol it was soo much fun :) :P



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Back to class But was a real nightmare!!!

Well I felt glad to be back in my Kuk Sool Won school after about a week that felt like an enterity!!! When i got in there - there was only one student besides me & i saw another 2 walk in later but i though it was odd that we didn't start class like we always did & my sensei told us 2 to practice on our techniques then comes walking into the school this guy that i never saw before in my life well since i started there.
He asked my sensei if we were ready for him & then he went & changed & surprise he was ( I hope) just an guest instructor for only that class & not hopefully the rest of the week!!! You’ll will find out later why im saying all of this. He told us his background in martial arts in the different styles he has studied & the years to! So he had us warm up a different way then we usually do. At first it wasn’t bad but after we did a few warm-up drills & got to this one where we were galloping like horses then that’s when my big left toe started to hurt but I pressed on. We were doing this one technique (I don’t know if its from another style like Tae Kwon Do  or not) where one person stands in a left stance & the other person is gonna kick u full force on your upper thigh ! & of all people to be paired up with I got the guest instructor!!! Well at first I didn’t think it was going to be that bad but after the first kick/hit I knew I was in trouble!! So I just gathered up my guts & when the next kick hit came I knew I couldn’t continue but I just prayed to God asking him to help me survive the class!!! So the 3rd kick hit came & it hurt sooo much!!! Then the guest instructor moved on & then I was starting to get scared of him but it wasn’t that bad he would try to kick me but I blocked (like how he showed me how to do) then I did a round house kick & he slapped my foot & man did it hurt!!! We did that for about 3 times. Then I just couldn’t take any more so I asked him if I could PLEASE get some water & he allowed me to do so & I kinda escape for alittle while intill another instructor came in & told me to get back into the class .


The one thing I didn’t like was that our instructors at my school are well more gentle & tell all their students if im hitting or whatever to hard just let me know & I will not hit as hard but this guy didn’t do that!!!! I think im gonna stick with Kuk Sool Won from now on & NOT try any other martial arts styles at least for now!!!!

He also in the beginning had us do 100 jumping jacks & 50 of this other thing & 10 of this & 25 of that!


I hope he isn’t going to be an instructor at my school cause I can barely stand this other instructor’s warm up & matter of fact its like double of that instructor’s warm up twice as bad!!!! At one point I was actually thinking if he does become a instructor at my school then im gonna quit!! But I told one of my instructor’s that my toe was hurting & he pulled everyone over to the other side of the dojang while one of the student was still being instructed by the guest instructor. I learned the 4th form of Ki Cho Hyung & I almost got it down & ready for memorization !!! Plus I learned 2 more techniques which are 7 & 8 of Ki Bohn Soo


After class I was talking to this one guy that’s in my class & I explained how I broke the box in my Pointe shoe awhile back but he said that the big toe could just be jammed!!! It really hurts a lot! I just really what the pain to go away for good! It hurts as if I just broke the box in the Pointe shoe which can be very painful & I have experienced it before (that’s how it felt last nite!) & right now my big toe kinda hurts but not as bad as last nite!!! I just hope that I don’t have to bear this pain every time I go to class which will get worse afterwards!!!!


How can I get the pain to go away??? Any advice???  If you had what im having to deal with ( big toe jammed / joint) how did u get rid of the pain for good???

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Ever Busy Week

Too much going on this week sadly I have to say that I had to not go to my kuk sool won classes!!! I only managed to go one time this week which was Monday! But it least I got to go. This week I had 2 different practices going on at the same day! I have church practice for this musical that the personal how is directing it wanted me to be at each practice which wasn't bad intill she told me it was on Monday Thursday & Saturday & the times for Monday & Thursday was 5-7pm !!! I told her that I worked in downtown that I will try to make the practices. I also told her that I will be at the Saturday one which starts at 9:30am but she told me that I didn't have to stay the whole day. I wonder if I should stay the whole day??? My part isn't intill the very end of the musical.. But after the practice im gonna get home as fast as my car can go & get into my swim top & some shorts then get outside & tan!!! So that I could get a good tan so that I would look great on the stage for the musical!!! I wonder what my sensei is going to say when I show up for class on Monday! lol
what am I going to tell him OMG!!!!

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Weight Loss

I haven’t stepped foot onto the scale but I have noticed tremense since I have started Kuk Sool Won!!! One of these days I will face my fears & get on that scale & hopefully all my hard work would paid off!!! Gee I wonder how many pounds I've loss already!!!! Well im not getting on the scale intill after I pass my next testing which is in June!
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WeekEnd & Yellow Belt Testing Thoughs & Questions

These last two days have been soo much fun . I have been shopping around via the internet looking for training equipment & other things like mats & so on I literally made a mental picture of what my Dojo would look like!! This weekend im soo excited for I will be doing step 1# which is to CLEAN THE GARAGE!!! I know that its going to take a great amount of work & power but with all this excitement that I have built up within me I think I can do it in one weekend!!! Im going to try to limited my outings this weekend but just do the important ones.


I will be posting updates on my Dojo area & when its all done I will post some pics!


For as long as I can remember I loved shrimp that day that my grandpa showed me how to get one. I loved shrimp from that day on intill now!!! When anyone even mentions the name shrimp all I can think of is the one movement in Kuk Sool Won!!! That we have to do countlessly over & over & over! So now my shrimp lovin day are finally over !!! I don’t know if I will be able to go back to loving to eat shrimp again or not!!

Im excited about monday cause i will be going back to class. We are doing techniques & forms! I can't wait!! I very eager & still are to learn the new forms & the techniques as well.

But i don't know if this is true or not so higher belts please help me out here. Before they reorganized the testing requirements chart on http://www.kuksoolwon.com/ it said for the yellow belt test that there would be one broad breaking! Which is one palm board break. Is that true??? Also have any of ya that are higher belts had to break a board with your palm in order to pass & become a yellow belt?



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The Story - How I Got Into Kuk Sool Won

It happened many yrs ago when i was parked in the parkinglot of this one Martial Arts School. God told me that i would be going to that school that i was parked outside of. I remember my reponse to what the Lord had said to me! I responed saying Lord i don't what to do martial arts cause its kinda violative but the next few of days i was praying about & then i responed again to what God told me that one day. Yes lord i will do it whatever you have called me to do I will do & whatever u tell me to go i go & I will follow you! So little did i know that it wasn't all violative & it was all about self-defensive & other things! So of coruse i did my research & found my school & it was the same school that God told me that i will be going to!! SO that is how i came into Kuk Sool Won !!!

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After Test Thoughts

After I have gone through what I though was a very hard test but it turned out very different than what I though it would be but there were times when it was a little bit hard thou even tho I did know everything that I was to know in order to pass the test. There were some surprises in the test that I didn’t think I would have to do. But if I just prepared like I did for the test that I just took & passed I will do fine in all the future tests to come!!! Now that I have gone through one! :p


Im really eager to start learning the other 3 forms & the 9 techniques more that what im going to learn tonite in class which is sparring & grappling !

After 3 months I found myself loving the forms of all the different things in Kuk sool won.

Its like once u are in something then u are getting the feel for it & then u start to like something a whole lot & that’s what I have discovering in Kuk Sool Won for me which is forms!!!! I just have to learn & memorize 3 more forms & im good on the form part to test for the yellow belt.



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Testing Time!!!

Last nite I have a very weird dream & it had to do with the Kuk Sool Won test!!! I got up at 730hours & I put on some techno music to help me & I went through all my forms & techniques as well as my kicks!!!


So I ate some meat to help me remember all that I have practiced (this helps alot & I can tell ya from experience that it does work!). So of course I was nervous!!! But I was playing it cool. I packed the car & we all left the house almost half way there I asked someone in the car if I had my belt they checked & yes I had it in the car. So as we pulled into the parking lot I saw my Aunt's car & I saw KSN Joe's truck as well.

So we got out and greeted each other & Aunt told me I will do fine & good luck!!! So after talking awhile I went into the martial arts studio or academy. Joe said how are you Ms. Lu I told him I was fine. He also told me another white belt person called him to see if I would be testing & that she was nervous as well ( she & I are kinda friends ) so I said really! then I told him that I had this weird dream that in my weird dream I saw my Ex-fiancé!! KSN Joe said you where engaged? I said yeah just for a short time & he broke it off. Then I when to set up my tripod & put my camcorder on it. So I reviewed my notes for the last time!!! Then it was time to test! SO I started the camcorder to record the testing! yea :) It wasn't as hard as I though it would be but let me say this they throw some curve balls at us! He had use revise the forms & mixed up the forms. Plus we had to do front fall but I didn't do it right but I did the landing right! Also all the white belts go back to the back & do the first technique in a circle said sensei & we all went back there & of course I was nervous so I did the technique in right stance instead of the left so finally it hit me I was doing it in the wrong stance!!! So I told my friend sorry about that I was nervous & she understood! The rest of the test was easy!!! When he called us over & asked us a question about the techniques - what is this technique attack? So I gave my best answer!!! On Friday 19th I studied the Korean words for both techniques & forms & when he asked that question I knew it was techniques & like I said again gave my best answer! & I was right too!! The Sensei had us do the techniques on the mat as he was next to us I on the other had got it all right!!! Then he had us say the student creed (which I knew them all!) So the first guy stood up & didn't know it & the sensei said to me do u know it Ms Lu. I said yes I do so I stood up & recited it! Then he told the other girl to stand up & recite it but she didn't know it. So he told the first guy does u know the second one & he said no & then asked me do I know it & I said yes so I stood up & said it! so we were getting our stripes being put one & I didn't feel right with out saying the last one because it was the requirement to recite the student creed all 3 of them too! not just 2!!! So right after he finished putting them on my friends' belt & I saw him going over to get my stripes I said sir can I recite the last one sir. The Sensei said yes so I did & after I felt like I finished all the requirements that I had to do to pass to get to the next level! SO out of all the white belts that was testing I was the best one prepared!

Lu

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Day 1 Intill the test!

Well last nite i went a little bit earlier than normal cause i had to practice on this one part of form 3 it was a balance issuse i was having. i got in at least 15 mins of practice time! :)  So when it was getting closer to  8:15pm my sensei came over & was helping me out & i was really gald too!!! Then i don't know how he got on the subject about the testing. Then he told me that there was more requirements for the test! its little things but i wish i was more informed about it. But i studied long & hard today & i think i will pass. I know in the major requirements that will cover the test i have that down in a flash!
But we will see how i do!!!

Lu
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Day 2 Before The Test!

As i went into my class a little bit earlier so that i could have one on one with one of the instructors just to go over all the test requirements & before we got started i as her a question & i was blowin away with the answer she gave me! I was real nervours about remembering all this other things plus reciting the student creed! & here they are going to test me on the 5 kicks! I even asked the main instructor & later found out he was the one that started the school!! So i have one more class before the test which is tonite & friday there is not classes due to the youth & kids testing. So im going to go in earlier than my class so that i can practice one of my forms. Now don't get me wrong here i have them all memorized but im just having a little bit of trouble on the 3rd form. Basically i have to work on the balancing part right after you do a inside kick & hit ur hand then u have to stand still with your knee level & thats the part im kinda having the trouble at! If i can balance & step back i mess up the whole form & MIGHT NOT EVEN PASS because of that!!!!
Im a dancer & a dancer has balance! I should be able to do it!
Lu
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Testing CountDown!

Ok so i have almost everything packed down & ready for the testing that is coming up on March 20th! But i do have to say this tho im real nervous  butterfulies in my stomach & a little bit of anxiety plus some of my family & friends are coming to top it all off! im kinda scared if my mind goes blank & i can't remember any of the techniques when they are going to be mixing them up i pray that they just give me a partner & say here do 1-6 techniques!!! cause i can kinda do them fast like that plus im real comfortable doing them like that too. Since my testing is on Saturday i though that i should get the most practice in as possible so im going mon - thrusday and on friday im gonna rest up for the test!!!! Now there is one thing that im kinda of real nervous about the one part of the test where u have to recite the student creed. I pretty much got that memorized but still kinda very nervous about that part. Now the forms i have those packed down but when i go to class tonite i have one question for my Master. Which i will ask when i go. i have indeed bought a camcorder to record the testing but im not sure so i will ask again when i go to class.If not thats fine i will use it to record the fireworks & other stuff!!!!
Hopefully my textbook is in & i get a chance to review all that im testing on!!! Im gonna have to see if i can get it after class & be in it all day wen. & thrusday & friday at work!!!!

Young Warrior
Keep Kick'n It UP!

Sparring Gear

I finally got my sparring gear that I ordered last month & I was stressed & worried that everything wouldnt fit but everything within shipment 1 did!!! See they had to send my order in 2 shipments due to some items that I ordered were out or back ordered but they are to be shipped soon!!!
Young Warrior

Keep Kick'n It UP!

Sparring Gear / Class

Last nite at my Kuk Sool Won class i saved the class from being musicless!!! One of the assistant there didn't have any type of music to go with what we were doing. So i piped up & i told my master that i have my ipod with me & that i have techno too. He said that would be GREAT!!!  So i got my ipod & hooked it up to the speakers. After i rejoined my group we were doing gymnistys & then i realized that i had my ipod on repeat one that one track so i when over & i fixed it so that it would play all the way through my playlist. By the end of the class i was really close to being able to do a front hand spring!!!! But during the class i was taking kinda negaive about it like i can't do this etc.
Im finally came to a desision to ordering my sparring gear!!!! I'll just wait to order my other tanning lotions.
I didn't know that it was going to be this much though!!!! But its the look of the gear that i like! lol
Young Warrior

New Place & Test Nerves

Well we finally moved into the new place!!! I like the layout but the practice area is surrounded by glass windows!!!! Luckily my classes are at night so not to many people will be stopping & watching! OMG! But last nite I totally bombed!!! Our master had the whole class do all the forms that we know of. I guess I was nervous & everything. It's near testing for me!! I got almost every test requirement down & memorized!! I still have to work on the 2nd form just a little bit. I have the idea of how do to it but I still need a little bit more help with it though. The 3rd form I kinda know how to do it but like the 2nd form I need just a little bit of help with it. Now I know how to do all the techniques but when im nervous my mind goes blank!!! But if I just wait & think it will come back to memory!!! A few weeks ago I had ordered a book that costed a pretty penny ! But it will help me before the tests!! But I was told last nite that it might come in this week or next week!!! I need it asap! So that I can study it before my test which is the 3rd week in march! Im worried that when I have to quote the student creed my mind would go completely blank on me!!! I wonder if the my partner when im taking my test is just going to be in a right stance when im doing my techniques?????


Young Warrior

Week Off !!! - Good & bad

Well i get a week off because the academy where im going is relocating so i get to relax alittle but still practice tho. Ive got one of the 3 student creed memorized which is good cause im testing in mid march!!!!  I do hope that i do practice as if i was in class though !!!! Im doing ok with the 3 forms but its like im forgetting steps but i guess thats how we are all at one time when we all started out? right. Well i did go ahead & ordered a textbook vol1!!! So that it can help me when im out of class thats usually when i start to forget how to do the forms & more ! :( so just my reviewing the forms & other things hopefully i can get them down pack like getting a dance move perfect everytime!!!
Young Warrior

Mondays class 1-25-2010

I wasn't 100% sure I was allowed to do sparring so I had someone call my doc. & the bottom line is that I CAN!!! So I can't wait to order my gear through my KSW school!!!!


Monday's (1/25/10) class was awesome!!! we started by stretching then moving to doing a kicking excrise in which my master added a new kick after we all had done the 1st one 7xs total of 5 kicks put together & after we finished lets say the first one then adding the new on then we would have to do the 1st then the new 7x etc intill we were doing all 5 of them in 7 rips!!!!

after that we started doing continuous cartwheels down then mat but the way I saw everyone in front of me I though it was a special kind of a karate cartwheel so when I got up to the front of the line I asked my master if it was a special cart wheel or just a regular one. He replied a regular one. So I started doing the continuous cartwheels down the mat. Then the second time when I did it I didn't know but the master was watching me & when I was finished he was like " good job Lu"! & he high fived me! Then when I returned to the back of the line once again. Hearing the master's instructions this time to only notice that we are now doing one handed cartwheels down the mat! I was thinking" I don't know if I could do this." But I was watching everyone in front of me & I was trying to figure out fast how to do it. Although I do know how to do a cartwheel pickup I tricked my self thinking I was going to do a cartwheel pick up but in mid air before I put my hand down on the mat I picked up the other one. I guess that was ok to do that in order to be able to do a one handed cartwheel.? I guess I would practice just a one handed cartwheel without doing that! The Master separated the class my ranks & he teach us the white belts how to do a front roll expect that u don't roll on your head but on your back. & once again because of my little time in gymtastics I was able to get it the first time!!! but when I did it on the other side of the mat it kinda throw me off but overall I got how to do it. The Master then showed us how do to it from a stand up position & again I got it the first time! But I was kinda dizzy from all the cartwheels & front rolls. we also learned some Techniques!

Young Warrior

Sweet & Sour Moments

Last nite I have learned 2 more techniques the 3rd one was a little bit hard to learn but I still have to practice on it. I have half of it down! :) & I just learned it last nite! I've also learned something new its kinda like wrestling on the floor but the one person gets on the person that is laying on the back in a horse position or something like that. After we were doing it for at least 15 mins or 5 mins & after I went home & was in the tube relaxing I felt my knee & it kinda hurt but there was no black or blue where it was hurting when I would put my hand in that one spot on my knee. So after I took my bath & went to take to my grandma to see what she would say & told me to go ahead & call the doc. So I got in a little depressed mood & when I went to say good nite to my mom. She could tell something was wrong & she asked me so I processed to tell her what I told my grandma & she told me that if the doc told me if I could do everything before then it was ok. My mom also told me that maybe I could call his office & have him call me back. But I didn't want to go to see him cause I didn't know if he wanted to take X -rays & I don't have any idea how much that would be! Plus I don't what to just waste $50 just to go in & the doc says yes u can continue kuk sool won! Well right now im in an nervous worried & depressed mood right now. Waiting on what the doc is going to say about this?
IF i can't do it anymore what is life going to be like afterwards?!?!?! I  LOVE KUK SOOL WON!!!!! Its like right after you break up with someone & you don't know how u are going to go on well thats how i kinda feel!  My mind is filled with WHAT IFs , WHAT AM I GONNA DOs , HOWs and WHYs.


Young Warrior

Class Belt Levels?

As i was driving to work today a question rose up once again. I wonder what belt level is to be within the following classes :

Beginner
Intermediate/Advanced

The only reason why i ask this is because when i went to the beginners class there were a red , brown , black! & of course white belts there! but i don't really understand why there were other advanced belts at the beginners couse ( well maybe they are freshing their memory) but there was all different kinds of belts at both of the beginners classes that i went to this week! I thought that they would have them in a class that would suit them with the level of experience & also what they need to learn in order to move up to the next belt but how can u do that when u have them all mixed in together u wouldn't be able to just teach the whites the basics of whever & then also teach lets just say the blue belts what they need to learn before the testing?

Young Warrior

Thoughts

My School that im with right now is in the mist of moving there's a good side & a bad side to it.
The good side to it is that im glad I joined now than rather after they moved cause if they didn't update there website then I would think I would have gone to the old site rather then the new one! The bad side to it is that I will NOT have my uniform intill we are all situated over in the new location. Which to me isn't a BIG problem for me but like what I have experienced wednesday nite when my partner showed me how to tie my well loaned white belt on while she helped me put it on. I think I have the idea of how to wrap it around you but the problem comes in when u are to slide one under & the other something else & then tie it!!! Well I guess I will learn over time ! :P  But i what to get as good as possible before moving over to the new place cuase i have seen it & the practice area is where everyone can see you !!!

Young Warrior

1st class of Sparring & Grappling

1/13/10 - class experience
Well I was a little nervous before leaving for class.  I have gotten over the nervousness of going there the very 1st time (sometimes i will stay in a very light nervousness stage intill i feel comfortable like going to a friends house.)& all but the fact that my Master was teaching us sparring & grappling !! I had no idea what that was at all!!! I found out later! lol After the kids class had ended was the time to be real nervous for me but I wasn’t. So I met some more new people at the KSW Academy! I though that they were going to teach us the full 100% of it in that class & have us doing it like we were in a tournament! But my mind was racing & it never did stop! lol but I guess I was thinking to fast down the line cause they wouldn't expect us to be sparring like if we were at a tournament!!! So at the end I kinda liked it!! & I got the hang of it & all! So our master told us once we were done going against our partner that we were to switch groups. So I was blessed to have a red belt to be my partner ( I tell ya why it was a blessing in a minute) because she challenged me to learn from her moves & how she blocked! Even tho the master showed us what to do & how to do it. It was still a challenge to me but in the end I won one time & she won the first time!


Another day & a new experience of Kuk Sool Won!

Young Warrior

Soreness - Sparring & Grappling 1stie

As I look on the calendar & see that tonight’s class is on sparring & grappling im thrown into yet another nervousness not like on monday nite (1st class) but like something that I never did before with a sport or activity that im fine in ( just a tad nervous well ok maybe more that a tad more). I have no NO idea what sparring & grappling is all about but I guess I will find out tonight! :)  :(  :|  !!!! Everyone within the school is real nice & I love love the way we have to show respect before beginning & ending of the class & right when u walk into class as well as when u leave class!!! I can’t wait intill I get to the point where I wil be training with a staff!!! Now im buzy most of the week since im in kuk sool won.


But I do have a few questions for any of my fellow readers out there that had experience in Kuk Sool Won. What do I do to get the soreness to go away ? I heard on http://www.martialartsplanet.com/ ( forums( my ID on there is Young Warrior) ) that drinking a chocolate milkshake could help is that true? When you first started what did you do about your soreness & how did you get it to go away? Im open to anything. For like I said my week is now busy

Monday – KSW class
Tuesday – Dance practice
Wed. KSW class that’s somewhat how my week looks like!
Thurday - If not at a bible study i will be at KSW!!!
Friday - NONE
Saturday - NONE
Sunday - NONE

I wonder here i can fit into go to the gym? OR should i wait intill im done being sore from my KSW classes to start going to the gym? or should i go to the gym while im still sore & just do light workouts like just walking on the tradmill not to slow & not to fast. hmmm  i don't know.

Young Warrior

1st Day NEVER EVER FORGET!!!!

I was real nervous so I didn’t eat anything at all! I only drank some orange juice & ate a bite of a cracker. Then I was off to the martial arts school.! When I got to the school I saw a kid out of a car & went to the door then headed back to the car & got in & drove away. So when I was getting out of my car I accidentally set off the car alarm !!! I got it off kinda fast. when I got to the door there was a latter on it & it said that their school moved two doors down to the left after velocity & so I got back in my car & drove 2 doors down but I couldn’t find it so I parked & got out & tried to find it but I couldn’t so I got back into the car & I turned on the lights & had my seatbelt on & put the car in reverse but I didn’t have the keys in the car! Lol ( u could tell by this that I was kinda nervous eh?) Well I drove back & put my emergency lights on & I when to the door where the letter was & it had a number on it & I called it but it went right to voicemail. So I had this one number in my cell that someone from the academy had called me earlier in the day. I call the number & I told the lady that I couldn’t find it so she help me find it & while driving I accidentally hit the windshield wipers !! so I eventually got it to stop & I parked & I went in & I met her. She is a nice lady! So here I was in the class & the KSW instructor came over to me & he asked how did u find us & I told him how I find them on the internet & he asked me what kind of dancing do I do & I told him that I had 4 yrs of basic ballet , jazz, 1 or less yrs for gymnastics then I had 2 yrs of Pointe & modern lyrical.


I surprised my master when we were stretching ! Almost all the stretching he told us to do I could to completely!!!! I tell ya that dance training really came in handy!!! So as the class moved on I was teach how to do a basic high kick then a inside kick as well as an outside kick which I really surprised my master so he saw that my partner had raised the pork chop & I was still clearing it!!!!! Thanks to learning the fan kick in dance! :P

So after that excise I started to feel a little bit of dizziness & light headed so I asked where I could get some water so they told me where to go. So After I got some water I still felt kinda dizzy so I went into the restroom / locker & sat down & I was feeling dizzy & nauseous & then I started to cough & then I throw – up after that I felt fine so I got up & was slowly walking around & then I splashed some clod water on my face & made sure that I was ok to go back into the class. When I reentered the class they were doing some techniques & im thinking woo I don’t think I could do this. But then my master saw that I was back & I got back into the class & my partner teach me the 1st 2 techniques within Kuk Sool Won! & I caught on fast! The Master called everyone into a line & we did a front kick & after we kicked we had to hold it there & then start to circle the leg but course I couldn’t to that! Then we did the other side too as well! The master then instructed us to balance on one foot & strength our other foot out but the mat was slippery & of course I was losing my balance because of that! lol He lined us up agatised the wall & we did a side kick then we had to hold it there !!! We did our left side 1st but I didn’t do so good! But when we did the other side I was able to hold it up there like one of the guys that was a blue belt!!! & the Master was surprised again! That was the 1st day of training !!!! I will never forget that day ever!!!!!

Young Warrior