Another week, more rain. This week has been slow, besides a trip to the mall. The highlight of this week was Taylor Swift’s announcement of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). The only thing to report is that my test is otherwise going well, the halfway mark is approaching in a couple weeks which is exciting and … Continue reading “Cooper Riegel – Week 22”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 47”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 46”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 45”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 44”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 43”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 42”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 41”
Written by Lucas Grant
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 … Continue reading “Lucas Grant: Week 40”
Written by Cooper Riegel
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 … Continue reading “Cooper Riegel – Week 21”
