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Lucas Grant: Week 47

This week I want to talk about my personal goal I’ve been developing throughout my black belt test. This goal I set for myself was to learn better responsibility and self discipline. There have been many physical challenges throughout my test but they don’t compare to the mental challenges that one will go through. Responsibility […]

Lucas Grant: Week 46

This week was a pretty normal week so I will use the blog as a progress report. I have exactly 68 days until my final test! That’s a little more than 2 month, so this is what I’ve done so far, 47,685 push-ups and sit-ups, I’ve ran biked and swam 962 miles, I have done […]

Lucas Grant: Week 45

This week I was able to attend an out of school tournament in West Sacramento, so here’s a run down of what happened. First I participated in kata, and I tied for first place in my division. A funny thing that happened is the same person I tied for first this year, I tied for […]

Lucas Grant: Week 44

This week, I completed my black belt community service project! For my service project, I went to Del Paso Heights Elementary school to put on an assembly by myself to teach pre-k to 2nd graders about anti-bullying. This was a great experience! For my assembly, I went over with the kids what bullying was, what […]

Lucas Grant: Week 43

This week I was able to attend a family weekend at Chico State University to visit my brother! It was super fun to be able to visit him especially because I don’t get to see him very often. My family and I went up to Chico on a Saturday morning, then we took the time […]

Lucas Grant: Week 42

This week I finished a book called “Three Budo Masters”. This book gave interesting perspective on 3 different types of martial arts masters in the 18-1900s. The 3 masters this books covered are Jigoro Kano a judo master, Gichin Funakoshi a karate master, and Morihei Ueshiba an Aikido master. Having 3 different masters in one […]

Lucas Grant: Week 41

Over the weekend I was able to attend a karate tournament up in Redding hosted by Scott Halsey. It was super duper fun and a great experience overall. For placement wise I did pretty well, I got 1st in weapons kata, 2nd in empty hand kata, and 2nd in point sparring. It was really cool […]

Lucas Grant: Week 40

This week was pretty normal, I did school, I went to karate, and I hung out with friends. So, I will use this blog as a check in for the number aspects of my test. As of now September 24th 2023 I have done: 42,735 push-ups and sit-ups, I have ran biked or swam 871 […]

Cooper Riegel – Week 21

This week was fun and bittersweet. One of my friends hosted a sleepover for their birthday. We did an escape room and kept our track record of not escaping before the timer. It was a creepy escape room and we managed to solve every puzzle. The only thing was we solved the last one literally […]