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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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This weekend my brother came back from college to visit for a few days. In those few days I had the opportunity to attend a UC Berkeley Football game! One of our family friends’ son goes to UC Berkeley so my family, including my brother, had a chance to go see the Cal Bears football […]
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This week was very nice. It was a perfectly normal week and everything went smoothly. I got to see how the school/work/karate balance would feel, and it’s not too bad. So hopefully school doesn’t get too stressful so I will be able to continue working for the dojo. Something fun I did over the weekend […]
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This week was back to school week. All of summer led up to this, and it never really feels real until you sit down at your desk in your first class. It suddenly all sinks in and for the next 9 months you will be sitting at that same desk almost everyday every morning. But […]
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