I passed my black belt test! I am so grateful to be a part of this amazing community and had the privilege to participate in such a test. Out of the 13 months there were some ups but there definitely was their fair share of downs. The test itself was brutal, I’ve never been too […]

Happy Holidays! These past two weeks have been very busy but very fun. On my first week of Christmas break I went down to Huntington Beach California to visit family for the Holidays. My family and I do this every year and it’s always nice to see them. I had a great time in Southern […]

Over the weekend I attended our in-school “absolute” tournament! It was a really good experience, and it was a great little test run before my final black belt test. How an “absolute” tournament works is you are put with a partner and you have top perforce kata, who even wins that gets a point, then […]

This week was Thanksgiving! My family always hosts Thanksgiving, so this year was the same as the rest. It was a great time with lots of super good food. My dad is always the grill master so he makes the turkeys and any other projects he wants to experiment with. This year we had 2 […]

School this year has been going very well, I ended the first quarter with a 4.4 GPA! But challenges of a few big research projects are soon to come. Coming up with research projects in 11th grade is really tough. It’s like trying to find your way through a big maze. Picking a good topic […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]