Songahm 3 - New Skills!

I had a great first week as an Orange Belt. It felt empowering to put on my new belt each time I prepared for going to the dojo. I did 5 classes this week. I was also just getting over being really sick, so it was a difficult week pacing myself and getting my strength back. When I went all out, my body pushed back making everything tough and truly a challenge.

I love my new poomse - Songahm 3! It's got great blocks and new kicks incorporated. I really enjoy doing my forms each day. The work and detail that I put in shows through in the dojo. For my next belt test I am only supposed to learn the first 12 or so movements; however, my goal is to perfect all 28 movements.

As far as sparring combinations goes, it feels good to move on to some new combos that incorporate new kicks and punches. This week I discovered that I'm naturally good at crescent and jump front kicks. I attribute this to years (and I mean YEARS) of aerobics, gymnastics, dance & choreographing stuff with my sister.

Speaking of my sister - I brought Mandi to a special Mother's Day cardio kickboxing class on Thursday. It turned out to be more like a high energy/cardio women's self defense class and it was so much fun! My instructor paired us up, and I tried my best to remain serious as we trained. It very difficult, though, because Mandi is so funny! She's very much like Chrissy from "Three's Company"! When we would pair up for kicking and puching drills, she would hold the targets and make all of these really funny faces. She was terrified that I was going to kick, punch or elbow her instead of the target. We would start laughing and have to stifle that when Mr. F came around. Mandi did awesome (as I knew she would) and it was really special for me to share my love of TKD with her.

May 22nd, Sr. Master Von Schmelling, the former world TKD champion and founder of Victory Martial Arts, is coming to San Antonio! He is coming to Victory schools in San Antonio to conduct training and I'll be there, for sure.

Happy Mother's Day today to all of the moms and grandmas out there! Today I am going to pamper my precious, sweet mom. She is the most amazing woman that I know and I look just like her!!! I want to be just like her - she's also one tough mama! :-)

Kihap!

Dedie!