Oh Yea, baby!!

Two days of TKD classes in a roll with No trauma, Drama or crying Mamma!! Woo hoo.

Okay, sorry for that burst of excitement. After missing sessions due to ER visits & being out of town with work, completing sessions last night & tonight have been Great! In fact, all four of us (Emily, Dalton, Tyler & me) were able to take the same classes together to try and catch back up. Thanks to Mrs Wiggins for allowing us to join each others classes. Boy have our patterns been rusty........we gotta practice these at home.

On a side note, I've been sucking some serious wind in class. So, I have to do something to lose this big ol belly. My motivation has been rather low for getting my big behind up in the mornings to exercise & run. No excuses, just laziness on my part. Once we finished the 100 push up challenge and I've been seriously slacking. BTW: The three of us boys actually completed 100 pushups after taking the challenge for 7 weeks (6 week course, but we had to repeat a week)!


Till the next time, be safe & hug them young'ns!

Not again!!

Well it happenned again. Hoping to make up missed days this week because I was out of Town M-TH for work, we planned on going to TKD Friday night for two classes. Early afternoon, Dalton's school called and said he cut his finger & probably needed stitches. So for the second time in two weeks, off to the hospital we go with Dalton. Three stitches in the first knuckle crease of his left index finger (pretty sucky place to have a cut) and a few hours laters, we head back home......missing TKD again due to injury to Dalton. Looks like he's gonna be taking after his Dad, cuz I've had many, many stitches & multiple broken bones!

Good grief, hopefully we can get back on track next week without an injury ;-)

Peace Ya'll.

Sword Seminar

Tonight we attended our first seminar. The seminar was led by Mr Shade, a TKD Black Belt and very accomplished Martial Arts Swordsman.




The boys class was full of young'ns. The whole class seemed to really enjoy learning this new skill. The swords are made of wood, so no cuts or deaths, just bruises...LOL. The boys took right to the swords.

They learned proper stance with a sword:

Overhead slice:

Angle slice:

Mr Wiggins helped some of the kids out.
Mrs Wiggins helped some:
Emily watched her brothers and wanted to know when it would be her turn.


All in all we had a very fun night and truly enjoyed learning a new aspect to Martial Arts.

Finally this pic just seems like the best way to say Goodnight:

What had happenned was......

Well tonight did not work out quite the way we planned. We missed TKD tonight, but did get to visit the local Medical facility. As Mrs Wiggins (one of our TKD Instructors) says "What had happened was": Dalton (11 yo) was riding his bike this afternoon without a helmet (against house rules) & bounced his head of the driveway. He didn't want to tell Mom/Dad and get in trouble, so he tried to hide it.

Well that worked for about an hour,
until his head hurt him too bad,
told Mom he had headache (not telling her why),
Mom give's him some IBprofen,
then Mom caught him cry'n in his room (something he doesn't do),
he finally confessed "what had happenned"
showed her the big ole knot on his left temple
stated he felt weird & that his head hasn't stopped hurting,
and then shortly there after he started throwing up..........

Of course we headed right to the Hospital. He was thoroughly checked out (CT & other tests) and was released 3.5 hrs later. Diagnosis is he'll be sore and may have some light headedness, may have suffered a mild concussion but he will be okay.

We are relieved of course, but it was quite the ride.

The upside is a mere kick to a padded head should pale in comparison to the whallop that the concrete provided?! Hopefully we will get back on track tomorrow!!

Tonight's Lesson: Spinning Hook

Tonight I took two classes........yes you read correct 2, as I took family class with the boys & then the Advanced Rank Adults class. This was going to prove to be a mighty humbling experience. Both classes were focused on proper kicking techniques, with primary focus on the spinning hook kick. So for demostration purposes let's watch a well demonstrated hook kick.

When used correctly for board breaks is a very powerful & impressive technique, as demonstrated below:

And finally can be a wickedly effect & punishing Knock Out strike. As witnessed below: Caution not for the faint of heart, so skip viewing this one if you don't wanna see a KO!

Well let's just say that after viewing these clips of well executed spinning hooks, mine looked nothing like those and quite frankly, I would be more likely to hurt myself than anyone else. But Hey, I tried & tried, & tried until I finally did a couple of some what decent ones. Good grief did I feel and look (I'm sure) like a total goof!

The Bright side is:
1. My boys picked right up on the tehnique and had it pretty well down in no time.
2. We did work on the new pattern (Yul-Guk) and we have that basically down. Thanks to Mr Scarborough's patience and help ;-)
So hey, all in all it was a very good night.