day 2205 – sync x-out

August 16, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #allsmiles, #bactuck, #coach, #comparison, #confidence, #flightclub, #funtimes, #happy, #learning, #mimic, #motivation, #peerpressure, #practice, #progress, #pushed, #sidebyside, #studious, #sync, #workhard, #xout | Leave a comment

i wasn’t pressing to regain confidence in my back tuck after necking it, but i’m happy to say i got it back only nine days since. thinking it’s time to ease myself into the x-out, i pleasantly progressed back onto the floor in just one day. i’m even happier i actually have some moves i can now sync with others. it really does help when i get to do it alongside one of the best. not only does it push me to go for it, it also allows me to study and compare what he’s doing batter and what i can do to get mine better. this is by far the best x-out i’ve ever done on floor

day 2178 – flightclub birthday

July 20, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #boardgames, #caloricalert, #celebrate, #chat, #coach, #communitty, #eat, #flightclub, #flightclubfam, #flips, #food, #friends, #funtimes, #groupphoto, #karaoke, #potluck, #saturdaynight, #taekwondo, #tricking | Leave a comment

a night at the facilities to celebrate flightclub coachs birthday. in the short span i’ve spent tricking, i’ve met a lot of new people within the community. i arrived late to the party due to another long teaching shift. we spent the night playing board games, karaoke, eating, chatting and of course flipping. there was no shortage of food and cake from the potluck. i stayed past midnight but not until the very end since i need to be up early for walk with the dragon the next morning

day 2146 – rusty snatches

June 18, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #apex, #backsquat, #badhabits, #barbell, #coach, #disappointed, #doit, #olympiclifting, #plates, #propertechnique, #rusty, #save, #snatches, #soreness, #squats, #tryharder, #weightlift, #workout, #yelled | Leave a comment

second apex workout since returning and i’m still trying really hard to get back to proper snatching. i’ll be the first to admit i’m pretty disappointed in the missed snatches that shouldn’t be missed. when the lifts appear to start out wrong, i give up on it far too early and clearly don’t try hard enough to save them. i was told off for doing so and smartened up after that. at least i made up for the lackluster lifts with some better back squats

2042 – killarney kids

March 4, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #allsmiles, #bcchamp, #coach, #colourbelts, #competition, #comradery, #group, #grow, #improve, #killarney, #killarneytaekwondo, #poomsae, #poomsaetraining, #provincial, #ready, #richmond, #taekwondo, #team, #vancouver | Leave a comment

this is the end of our poomsae training sessions before saturday’s bc championship. this is one of the largest killarney team we’ll have at a provincial competition. through the past several weeks of training, they’ve work really hard and improved a lot. i want to keep growing killarney’s competition team and create the comradery that we’ve never had before. hopefully this will lead to something good like taking some of them to bigger stages

day 2011 – wall flip

February 1, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #backtuck, #bluemat, #coach, #dowhateverittakes, #fcfam, #fell, #flightclub, #flipping, #knee, #learn, #nogame, #noregrets, #practice, #pullout, #solid, #somethingnew, #spotted, #stepbystep, #storyofmylife, #wallflip | Leave a comment

my flips were feeling strong in class and post class training. my back tucks have been coming back to me and lately i’ve been able to get solid landings on blue mat by myself. i was curious about the wall flips so i asked to learn it to which one of the coach graciously took me through the steps. they were really cool once i started going through the whole motion with a spot. although in the end i hurt my knee on one of the awkward landing, i don’t regret having asked to learn it. since i didn’t know the extent of my injury, i did have to pull out of my hockey game later that night

day 1994 – apex the gym

January 15, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #apexthegym, #barbell, #bumperplates, #coach, #fitgoals, #frontsquats, #funtimes, #olympiclifting, #pickitupanddropitdown, #platform, #powercleans, #semiprivate, #sesh, #snatches, #trainer, #weightlifting | Leave a comment

for my first semi private session, i revisited everything that i did from my first session, checked on front squats, then jumped into some power cleans. since it looked fairly good after a few minor adjustments, i got the green light to go heavier. made it all the way from the fake whites to the yellow plates. the coach was very happy with the progress given the amount of time and instruction i had today. my first official olympic lifting session since my days with jae and i had forgotten how much fun this stuff is; the only type of cleaning i like to do

day 1984 – snatch desires

January 5, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #apexthegym, #backinthegame, #barbell, #coach, #commit, #correction, #dowhatilove, #firstsession, #fundamentals, #goals, #learning, #olympiclifting, #powergame, #relearning, #serious, #snatches, #weightlifting, #workhard, #workinprogress | Leave a comment

i finally did something that has been on my list for the longest time – get serious with olympic lifting. i acquired the skill three years ago, but slowly drifted away because time was a big restraining factor. i would still do cleans here and there, but never touching snatches since the drop. it only further dampened my hopes of returning to olympic lifting when my shoulder fell apart six months ago. i knew i had to do something if i truly wanted it back. the first step to getting serious was to reach out to a coach who would correct and refine my techniques. today’s first session was very good on working through regaining the fundamentals and correcting any bad habits

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