Spring 2026 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!

1/21/26

Today was normal i went to school had a test in 6th period but it is close to the end of the day so i was actually fully awake during that time and i got home did a little bit of homework then i went to taekwondo and after i went home finished the rest of my homework and the rest of my requirements

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1/20/26

Today i had nothing going on at all it was a pretty boring day I got up early for the first day back from a long weekend so i was tired of course cause I was not used to waking up really early but i made it through the school day (Seven Cruel Hours Of Our Lives) and since I had so much free time today I got to finish all my homework, do some essays, and do some extra requirements to get ahead

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1/19/26

Today was normal and I'm glad we had a long weekend but I still had to get up early to leave the mountains :( but we celebrated my uncles birthday before we left and I had to be stuck in a car for almost 3.5 hours because of traffic but after I got home I unpacked and went to taekwondo

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1/18/26

Today was great its my last day in the mountains :( so sad so in the morning I have to get up early and leave but in the house my family's at we have a VERY big amount of land and in the middle of it we have a forest with LOTS AND LOTS of trees and pathways so its easy to get lost and me, my brother, and my cousin were looking for a place in there built by our other cousins a couple years ago and we lost my brother and thought he got taken and we found the spot that they built and thought it was like stranger things cause he went missing in the forest and it was foggy so we couldn't see good and we found the place and it came crashing down out of no where and my uncle and brother came from behind a...

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1/16/26

Today was actually really good I woke up early for a school club in the morning and after school I went on a road-trip to the mountains! I had to be in a car for 3 hours but worth it and the reason we went is because my family house a house in the mountains so I go with a bunch of family members once a year for a couple days so it was a pretty good day

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1/15/26

Today was normal except it was really cold! and we had to still go outside for a walk at school but we had a substitute teacher which was good cause he let us do whatever so I got to work on some of my homework in that class and after school was nothing but homework and essays

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1/14/26

Today was another normal day I had a lot of tests today I think I had about 4 and after school I went to taekwondo for a couple classes to help out and I took a class to so its just another Wednesday

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1/13/26

Today was another normal day I got up early for school and had a test which put us in a certain group based on our score then I got home and did my requirements and homework

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1/12/26

Today was another normal Monday we were prepping for test because we have a test tomorrow and Wednesday and then after school I went to TDK and got a lot of signatures and so it just a normal Monday

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1/11/26

Today was good I woke up really late and started doing some of my essays and requirements and I was kind of sore for yesterdays pre-test then worked on some of the Poomsae's I messed up on and I also went out to an arcade place with my brother

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1/10/26 (pre-test)

Today was the pre-test I had to wake up early and went to the track for the running portion then I went to the dojan for the rest of the physical part I think I did pretty good on that then we did some Poomsae's and didn't have time for self-defense but I think I definitely have to work on that and then I went home and practiced

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1/9/26

Today was a lot of activity I woke up early for a club before school and I had a substitute in the least favorite class which was great then after school I went to taekwondo and I'm going to bed early for the pretest tomorrow (good luck everyone)

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1/8/26

Today I had some time before school and did some of my daily requirements early, went to school, did some homework, went to taekwondo, and finished my requirements

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1/7/26

Today was another normal day I had to get up early again for school had a quiz in math got home and did my homework and also did my daily requirements

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January 6th

Today was the second day back at school from winter break and I had 2 tests one in math and one in social studies I also had a lot of homework at the end of the day so it took me a while to do it then I started on my daily requirements and helped my brother with his green belt self-defense and he went over some stuff that he did in his past belts

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