I finished my second book for my black belt test! This book is called “The Laws of Simplicity.” The book is essentially about how you take your chaotic lives and try to make them simpler. It talks about how hard it is to drop old habits in order to create new ones, but how important […]
Written by Olivia Ford
Last week was Thanksgiving Break, so I got a full week off of school. It was really nice to get a week off of school and work because it’s been pretty stressful with how many hours I’m away from home each week. I tried to take it as a way to reset a little bit […]
Written by Olivia Ford
Last week, my family and I took a trip to Disney Land! The last time I went to Disneyland, I was five years old, and now I am seventeen, so it has been a very long time since I last went. This time was much different than my last trip. It wasn’t waiting in lines […]
Written by Olivia Ford
As I approach the end of the first month of my test, I am feeling much more comfortable with my daily numbers than I did when I first started. It has still been an incredibly difficult month, because even though I was already working out before the start of this test, it was not anywhere […]
Written by Olivia Ford
This past week, I have been more focused on getting my pushup and situp numbers in. Very quickly into the test, I fell behind on my pushup and situp numbers, so I have been working towards getting them back up. Assuming that I stay on track with what I am doing now, I should be […]
Written by Olivia Ford
After finishing my second week of this test, I feel a little better about how I am doing on this test than I was last week. The first week was hard with trying to find the balance between school, teaching classes, regular karate classes, homework, and also getting in all of my numbers. I think […]
Written by Olivia Ford
A week ago, I started my first day of my year-long black belt test. I don’t think it has fully sunk in yet that I am actually doing this. I started karate over eight years ago, and this has been my goal ever since I started, so actually beginning this test is surreal. There were […]
Written by Elizabeth Clark
Background- For those who don’t know my background, I trained in the 1990’s under Masters Ron and Dave Joslin. Back then, I tested and received my Jr. Black Belt back in 1998. I stopped training in 1999 when my family and I moved to Utah. I have kept in touch with Sensei Oliver over the […]
Written by Elizabeth Clark
I finished reading “You Are Here.” It walks you through the concept of mediation. I feel like even after a year of meditating every day, I still struggle. I have a hard time shutting down my thoughts. Some days are better than others. Overall, I believe I am making progress, but its slow lol. Everything […]
Written by Elizabeth Clark
I spent a week in Grand Cayman for a scuba diving trip. It was great weather. The diving was as good a 6 out of 10. I have been very spoiled with my diving lol, I’m a dive snob 😅 There was things to see, we did see the usual, rays, turtles, sharks (Nurse and […]
