Welcome back to my martial arts journey in this blog we will dive deep into what this month has brought me, from doing a grading to going to a competition. This blog will cover everything that we did in the months leading up to the grading and the competitions. Update on the Gradings: As mentioned in my previous blog our Sabeom (teacher) was changing how the gradings would unfold from the content that was going...
This year has been a great start to Tae Kwon Do with a lot of things happening and a lot of of things are changing about the way our Saboom (teacher) was running our lessons. This edition of the series will be long as there is quite a lot to unpack, so let’s get into it! First Week: Before we even got to our first lesson of the week we received an email from our...
In the past 4 months we have been hard at work learning Korean, our patterns and competitions, in this entry I will catch you up with everything that has happened ready for the new year! This period was a really good introduction to Martial arts and has inspired me to bring my best to every lesson, from becoming a part of the SDMA family to winning my first gold medal at the EMAP...
Ever since I was younger I've always been fascinated by action films especially ones with hand-to-hand combat i grew up on films like: karate Kid, Rush hour (any Jackie Chan film to be honest) and I'm currently watching Cobra Kai. I then moved on to Anime and fell in love with stories with a lot of action and well portrayed emotions, Anime like Tokyo Ghoul will remain favourites till the end. I had...
You’d never guess it from my curvaceous “Dad-bod” and terrible fitness, but 18 years ago I was a fitness machine! I weighed 70kg, ironically that’s more than I weight now but only 6% body fat vs the 29% I carry around my waste like an 1980s “bum bag”. My History with Tae Kwon Do I was head fitness instructor for Fitness First’s flagship branch and would cycle to work, take several classes a day, then...
