Sun set on 2012 sun raise on 2013

This yr has been soo amazlying awesome first off I got to the blue belt level before my wedding which was on June the 2nd 2012 I tried to stay active in Kuk Sool while prepping for the wedding but when the months grew short and the wedding coming just around the corner I had no choice but to put it on hold intil after the wedding and after we settled down . But in the mean time I'm been practicing my hyoungs and my bo staff spinning forms. Hopefully I will get a job and get righ back into my routine of going to class and all. Hope all my blog readers ar having an awesome new years eve!!! Ahn young ha ship she sho!!!!

                                                                              



Blue Blet Promotion

Im very excited about my belt promotion that is going to take place tomorrow!!! My Fiance is going to come to see me get promoted to my next belt!! He told me to make a event on FB but i was very very skeptical that anyone is going to show up just to see me get my belt inwhich it would only be a few mins & thats all. Now i can see if i was in the belt promotion ceremony thats different but because of some adults complaining to the JKNs & PSBN now we adults only get promoted in class ( at the end of class). So anyways i did make a FB event for it but i only invited my FH i don't know if i should invit others cause i can understand if they cant because its on a weekday & plus there isn't anything really we can do anyways after. cause i still have a crewfew believe it or not at the age that im at now lol. But on the serious side should i invite my friends?? or should i just totally let that go & just let it be my FH & or not my mom too.
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Blue Blue Testing

Ok So u guys are dying to hear what happened in my testing right? Well here it is:


I decided to get up @ 8:00am I took a bath washed my hair & got dressed. Then I was questioning myself if I was supposed to be up there @ 9am! I was going back & forth on that! I was to call my FH @ 9am. But then realized when looking at the clock that my testing was at 9! It was 8:50am!! So I throw everything in the car & left. Didn’t have time to call my FH. I barely made it to my Dojo I threw on my dobok & I was still tying my jacket when I heard come on in guys so I came in still tying up my jacket & putting my belt on & throwing up my semi wet hair in a pony tail. Mr. Wolf was the one giving us the test. He was always putting me first in everything in the testing! OMG. I was the first one to go for hyoungs, techniques, & board breaking!!! Even tho there was another yellow belt blue stripe! I kinda messed up some of the techniques that all due to being nervous. PSBN Joe helped me before break the board. He had us do a drill & told us what we were doing wrong and what we need to do! So I was the first one up & I didn’t break it the first time but when I tried for the 2nd time I broke the board & fall in a jazz split!!! It was too funny to see!!! OMG.

Now I am awaiting my belt promotion in class in which I asked if I could do it when my Fiancé can to my class on Thursday nite of this week & PSBN Joe told me that it was fine.

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OMG Blue Belt Testin!!!!

Its been awhile since i have posted on here. But i have a fiance now & we are getting married next june!!! So we are always busy going here & there!!! But i have my blue belt testing tomorrow morning Im scared to death cause i have to do a side kick break!! My FH has been helping me prep for this test. There is the norm test stress but even more so cause if i don't pass this test i will not be doing my demo in the dragon boat race fest next saturday in sugarland TX!! I totally want to be able to do it cause there were only 2 spots open for the whole demo show & its only my PSBN & ME that got the last spots & even more so are the only ones from my school that are in the demo ! So i have to pass this test i think i can! But to put even more stress on me after the testing i have my demo check up !!!! But it was suppose to be last nite after class tho. But wish me good luck!!!!
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Official First Nite - NOT

Tonite is the official nite that im allowed to go back to class but when i checked out what we are doing which is grappling & sparring i though i would just wait intil next week to start cause i would only have this one class & then tomorrow i have something to do after work then Friday is my date nite with my baby! So that pretty much is it. I though what would 3 more day do. But im also on the edge about what if they tell the students about the demo & start the rehearsals!!!  I guess im thinking too much about it or overthinking about it.
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Black Belt Extravaganza

Im soo exicited about this big demo show.!!!! I never did a demo before in my life!!!  Now when i had my shoulder injury at the last part before i got to go back i started to get real creative with the bo staff! I have a history of spinning things in my past so it came to me kinda easy!  I would but together combos that would totally amaze myself! So when i went back i showed PSBN Joe & he was amazed as when i first did my 1st combo! But it didn't stop there now im able to spin the bo staff & spin myself at the same time!!! Over a period of 2 days i learned 4 new tricks that i might go ahead & put in the demo routine!!! But there is one that needs work tho. but as it gets closer to the demo i will see how good the trick is coming along & if i think its good enough then i will add that in. As far as the song goes i think im going to be doing eye of the tiger remix techno. On top of the 4 that i learned within a 2 day period i have 3 more!!! I just have to play around then i start to get ideas of new tricks & all.!!! THIS is going to be soo much fun but one down sider is that i do get real bad stage fright but im going to try to overcome it once again & just have fun with my routine.!!!
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Injured Ankle

The first week back after i encountered a shoulder injury what do i do i go & injured myself again & got to be out for couple of weeks!!! & i was trying to do a trick on the front yard! BUt i learned my lesson NEVER  do any type of martial arts trick on non-even ground!  I kept checking in with KJN Omar & he would tell me what i needed to do & well last nite i went to check in with him & he told me that i can start back up again!!! Im thinking that they would want me to just do the beginners class for about a week then after that start doubling up my classes!!! Plus when i was out i was able to start to choreograph at least the beginning of the entrance of my bo staff spinning routine in the big demo!!!!
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1st Class Tonite!!! Yipppppeeee

Well im going back to Kuk Sool tonite i can't wait to see everyones expressions on their faces even the KJN Omar & Thomas & all the other instructions plus PSBN Joe!! i kinda gave it away but not really! im just soo excited that im FINALLY getting to go back!!! Even my boyfriend is going to come up & watch me in my class! So i will be taking double classes tonite! :) or not it all depends on how my shoulder feels but i really what to push for 2 classes tho. Hes soo supportive! i thats one of the many things that i love about him!  Now as far as taking the make up test i don't feel anywhere near confident to take that test to get my blue belt! plus on top of everything esle i have to break a board spin kick style! i don't think i will be ready at all!!!! BUt a few days ago i got out my bo staff & was practicing on that & now i have gained more speed on the 1sr form & the 4th form plus im almost getting the hang of form 6 to the point where im almost spinning it perfectly over my head!
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Finally Gettin Back In

After about a month & a half lonnnnnggggg break from Kuk Sool Won i can go back & start getting back into shape not like im out of it or anything lol. But so that i can prepare to test for i don't feel confident that i know all my stuff to pass the test to get my blue belt for when i was on that vc i totally lost every thing even my forms that i know how to do to the techniques! grrrrr i wish i would have practiced that stuff when tho my shoulder was killing me just in my mind tho.
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Finally Ready!

Its been a good month & a half since ive injured my right shoulder grappling in Kuk Sool Won
but im soo ready to get back into it. Ive been away from it too long the reason why i say that is beacuase i have lost everything that ive learned & was also preparing for a testing that was to take place last saturday the 22nd of January. But im sure that if i just go to class & review for a few weeks then it will all come back to memory i hope lol. So that i can do my makeup testing. But there is a good thing that came out of this injury that i got a boyfriend that was a Godsent! Now that i have him i have to figure out a way to spend time with him during the week since now that i will be going back to Kuk Sool soon hopefully.  I'll figure out something!
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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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