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!

Lu 루 Keep Kick'n It UP!

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????
Lu 루 Keep Kick'n It UP!

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.
Lu 루 Keep Kick'n It UP!

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.).



Lu 루
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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!

Lu 루
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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!!!

Lu 루
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