This week I was able to go camping with one of my friends! I went for 5 days and it was a lot of fun. I may have gotten a lot of bug bites and my back might be red as a lobster, but those are just normal camping side effects. We were camping up […]

We are now around half way through summer, and overall it has been really good. As of now I have done 34,000 pushups and situps, I have gone almost 700 miles, I have done over 600 acts of kindness, I have done 650 rounds of kata, I have done almost 600 rounds of sparring, I […]

This is a video from back in March when I went down to San Francisco to compete in a tournament. This is my first round, which happens to be against a person named Lucas. We also crossed paths at a tournament in Dixon. Even though the video is poor quality (it was the best I […]

I recently finished my second book called “Zen in the Martial Arts’ ‘. This has quickly become one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. There was so much content I could take out of it. This book was about a man named Joe Hyams and his journey through the martial arts in his lifetime. […]

This week I was able to go on a family trip down to Huntington Beach southern California to visit some family. It was super fun being able to reconnect with people I haven’t seen for months, be able to enjoy the beach, and enjoy that high 70 degree weather. It also gave me the opportunity […]

School is out, and that means summer can start! I’m super excited to be able to take a break from school and hang out with friends, work, and just have a good time in the sun. One thing that I am going to do this summer is go to the gym. Planet Fitness is doing […]

This has been a pretty exciting week, I got my drivers license! This Thursday I finished my 50 hours of driving practice and my 6 hours of in-person driving, and after 6 months of waiting and a lot of practice I was eligible to take my test. So after school I drove with my mom […]

The tournament that I previously mentioned is now here. It was a super fun experience to do a little in-school tournament. It’s nice and refreshing for the stress and nervousness go away because you know you are competing against your friends. I was able to take second pace in normal Kata, and first place in […]

This week we have a karate tournament coming up, so that means time to practice a little bit more and get ready to compete. This is a kata tournament, so these 1000 rounds of kata are really going to show. The kata I will perform is Kusanku, the 7th kata you learn at our dojo. […]

This week was very fun! As I mentioned previously, I was going to go on a houseboat trip with a large bunch of my family. This was the week I got to go! It was super fun being able to see family I haven’t seen in a while, and it was great being able to […]