day 2325 – term end

December 14, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #assistantinstructors, #cards, #chocolate, #christmas, #credit, #gifts, #growing, #honing, #instructors, #killarney, #killarneytaekwondo, #lastday, #responsibilities, #skillset, #sweets, #teaching, #term, #training, #young

christmas cards and gifts from my sweet students because it’s on the last day of the term. it’s been a really stressful and hectic term teaching without a vice head instructor. i now have a very fresh and young group of teaching assistants, but it’s good to see them work so hard and improve their skillset. i’d like to take all the credit for honing them into the junior instructors that they are, but they’re all taking the initiative to as learn and grow to become role models

day 2319 – woojin workshop

December 8, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #ankleproblems, #anxiety, #basics, #benefits, #drills, #flightclub, #highperformance, #kicks, #kids, #killarney, #killarneytaekwondo, #koreans, #practice, #private, #spinkicks, #students, #taekwondo, #tricks, #woojin, #workshop | Leave a comment

my killarney kids had a private session taught by woojin and his teammates. he went through a bunch of drills for basic kicks. it was a good to get an idea how koreans train their basics and a good indication of why their basics are so good. my kids could also benefit with more of this training if they want to improve in high performance. honestly i get anxiety because i really wish i could start practicing my spinning kicks again, but i also get anxiety because i’m not sure if my ankle will be ready for all that

day 2304 – lesson plan

November 23, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #belt, #busy, #classes, #colourbelts, #cramming, #dojo, #hectic, #instructor, #killarney, #nonstop, #overdue, #practice, #promotiontest, #saturday, #stressed, #students, #taekwondo, #teach, #workhard | Leave a comment

ever so busy getting students ready for tomorrow. i have about two dozen students taking this month’s promotion test. since it’s the last test of the calendar year, i’m cramming a few more who’s well overdue. i think as an instructor, i’m more concerned and nervous than the students who’s taking the test. i worked them all pretty hard today, keeping all after class longer than usual. hopefully their hard work pays off at the test

day 2297 – obligated instructor

November 16, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #bronchitis, #dizzy, #duties, #everything, #ill, #instructor, #killarney, #notfeelingwell, #obligations, #passout, #peaceofmind, #promotiontest, #restisinorder, #sick, #students, #taekwondo, #teach, #tkd, #weak | Leave a comment

it was critical for me to be at taekwondo even just hanging onto the half a life i had left. i was feeling weak and dizzy while losing my voice but still felt the need to be there to make sure the students who’s getting ready for promotion got the proper stuff down. i stayed as long as i could last and helped the many i saw before i could no longer. at least i went home with the peace of mind that i gave it everything i had and supported my students in ways possible. now i’m just going to pass out early and rest this bronchitis

day 2289 – wu’s stripes

November 8, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #blackbelt, #collection, #dowhatittakes, #earn, #embroidery, #fourthdan, #goals, #hardwork, #instructor, #journey, #killarney, #lifelessons, #proud, #stripes, #students, #taekwondo, #tkd, #wus | Leave a comment

picked up the wu’s four striped black belt from the main school along with my students’. one more belt to add to my collection and keep it going. i’m proud of my fourth degree, but i’m more proud of the three first degrees i’ve trained and nurtured from the very beginning of their white belt journey. they’ve all worked very hard to earn their first stripe. i hope to get them more stripes and get more students to earn theirs

day 2270 – stay home sunday

October 20, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #agitated, #chasiubao, #complaints, #dimsum, #emailchain, #killarney, #lazy, #mad, #opengym, #payroll, #productive, #random, #stayingin, #taekwondo, #whatisweekend, #work | Leave a comment

stayed home originally thinking i’d be lazy, but turns out to be a work afternoon. i finished the much delayed payrolls for terms of killarney because someone complained about class reserve distribution. the email chain started getting out of hand and in turn made me even more agitated. i checked the spreadsheet and all is good to go until he makes other complaints. at least i got off my plate and onto better things

day 2269 – broken teacher

October 19, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #competition, #crippled, #footproblems, #instructor, #kicks, #killarney, #learn, #pain, #poomsaetraining, #saturday, #shift, #smooth, #stretching, #taekwondo, #teach, #tkd, #work | Leave a comment

trying to teach all the classes being on less than one foot combined. my left didn’t work well before and now my right is heavily crippled. capping off the last class of the shift with the poomsae competition team. surprisingly made it through the whole shift without having to demonstrate any kick at full speed or full power. it helps that all classes went smoothly and all except the first class came ready to learn

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