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Empathy Training

One of the requirements for the black belt challenge is empathy training.  We are to spend one day without speaking.  I choose to do it on the dojo cleaning day because I would be around many people.  It certainly was a challenge.  Every time I wanted to talk to someone I could not.  They would […]

Thank You

I am getting close to finishing my black belt challenge.  I have a few more requirements to complete.  It is hard for  me to think that over a year ago I was asked about doing this.  I would have never believed I could or would be able to do it without my Sensei Mike Oliver, […]

Family Movie Day

Every year after Thanksgiving most of the cousins in my family and their parents go to see a movie, usually a Disney movie, in the mall downtown. This year we got to watch Moana 2 which turned out to be a really good movie. I always enjoy spending time with my big family especially with […]

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is always a special time of year for me especially since I have a huge family and a lot of people I don’t usually see at family events. During Thanksgiving I’m usually at my Aunt’s house on my dad’s mom’s side of the family which is the side I don’t talk to a lot. […]

Dixon Tournament

IMG_5918 I’ve been going to this same tournament in Dixon for so many years now but this time I went it was way different. I didn’t compete in kata or point sparring like usual, I only competed in knockdown sparring. I’ve done knockdown sparring before so it wasn’t new to me but I’m still getting […]

My Service Project

At my dojo on Halloween my sensei usually runs a food drive but this year for my service project I decided to set everything and run it myself along with some dojo friends. When I asked my sensei about what I needed to do he gave me a list and at first I thought it […]

Coming to a Close

This week I finished my 50,000 push-ups and sit ups, seeking out a master, my blogs, and had a big week of kumite (40 minutes). I was fortunate enough to participate in a Brazilian jiu jitsu training session with two friends of mine to experience other forms of martial arts. While I am elated to […]