day 2249 – testers and testees

September 29, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #award, #backhandsprings, #colourbelts, #dinner, #drills, #flightclub, #flips, #groupphoto, #lead, #opengym, #promotiontest, #spontaneous, #sundaynight, #takeowndo, #whatisweekend, #work, #wustaekwondo | Leave a comment

i never kept track of the number of promotion tests i’ve led, but if i had to make a guess, it would over fifty. done another colour belt tes today before heading out to flightclub. i almost didn’t make it out to open gym because i joined them for an spontaneous dinner. i still ended up going, and worked on some back handsprings drills which i found quite insightful. i stayed until the end of the open gym, i’m going to be super tired tomorrow morning

day 2248 – noodles night

September 28, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #busy, #competition, #food, #grandmaster, #instructor, #killarney, #longshift, #noodles, #poomsae, #promotiontest, #random, #situations, #stressful, #students, #taekwondo, #teaching, #term, #tkd | Leave a comment

after a long taekwondo teaching shift, went out to have noodles with parents. it’s been a real busy and stressful term, sometimes i think the grandmaster is testing me and not my students given the scenarios i’m put in. i struggle to have set teaching staff all term. some students were preparing for tomorrow’s promotion test and some are training for master cup. it’ll be longer shifts for the next couple weeks until competition day

day 2221 – dojo obliged

September 1, 2019 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #blackbelttest, #bleed, #commitment, #cuts, #dojo, #energy, #exhausted, #instructor, #notthrilled, #opengym, #poomsae, #practice, #promotiontest, #review, #scrapes, #soul, #taekwondo, #tired, #tkd, #whatisweekend, #work | Leave a comment

wasn’t too thrilled on working this quarter’s blackbelt test being well aware that i’ll be a long one. the test didn’t finish until 9:45pm and i walked out with many more cuts, scrapes and bruises from holding for all the board breaking misses. still, i headed to open gym without food because i said i would be there. i did some x-outs and reviewed some poomsaes before i called it a day. i couldn’t join the gang for late night food because i’ll need the energy for a full day ahead of me. this can’t be over soon enough; my soul needs a break

day 1657 – padding the stats

February 11, 2018 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #assists, #bet, #fatigued, #fishsticks, #form, #goal, #hockey, #icehockey, #latenight, #padthestats, #produce, #promotiontest, #rounding, #scoresheet, #sports, #sportsneverstop, #team, #workaholic | Leave a comment

third last game of the season for fishsticks so filling the scoresheet is what i needed. i did exactly that tonight, taking the lead in my bet with a one goal two assist night. i was tired heading into the game having worked from nine to eight with a two hour gap in between teaching shift and promotion test, but not so tired after such good production. i’m sure i’ll feel the fatigue even more tomorrow trying to wake up for my 7:30am shift after a late game. i’m just happy that i feel like i’m rounding into form again as playoffs are ramping up.

day 1572 – promotion test

November 19, 2017 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #colourbelttest, #exhausted, #instructor, #longday, #mattime, #passout, #promotiontest, #salescentre, #showroom, #tiredaf, #tkd, #welldeserved, #whatisweekend, #windowshopping | Leave a comment

after calling out the test for one hundred and thirty students, i get some well deserved mat time. it was insane for me to lead every individual group from white to red belt, more talking than i would do in a whole week. it was more oa test for me than the students as fifties and sixties is the normal range. i don’t think i’ll survive another one of these tests alone so another instructor better step up soon. got home after some window shopping and a long promotion test in time to have my first meal of the day just shy of nine o’clock

day 1208 – tilted

November 20, 2016 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #disappoint, #disconcerting, #empty, #exhausted, #grandmaster, #hunger, #impromptu, #longday, #meeting, #promotiontest, #role, #shoulder, #sifu, #stepup, #taekwondo, #tkd | Leave a comment

long day on the mats that spanned ten hours with a break that wasn’t even a break. it wasn’t even necessary when i was already past my point of hunger. the promotion test went well, but the impromptu meeting the grandmaster called was rather disconcerting because he wanted and expected us to shoulder more than what we’re currently taking on. i know some of his disappointment was directed at me because i made the wrong call at portland to pass on that seminar. well after digesting that discussion is realizing i need to feed my empty stomach

day 782 – quarterly

September 20, 2015 by tongtong in my 365 and tagged #2015, #alwaysready, #ambushed, #award, #dowhatican, #expectations, #expecttheunexpected, #justforshow, #mycollection, #nocontrol, #phenomena, #promotiontest, #readyornot, #repertoire, #selfdefense, #solo, #starofthequarter, #stickknife, #stressful, #tkd, #trophy | Leave a comment

just as i thought it is the same old quarterly event, things start to get interesting. unexpected circumstances arise with the stresses of putting together a solo performance on the spot. i suppose there were many things in my repertoire that i could use, but i didn’t want to think and just resorted to some stick knife self defense. another prime example of the always ready expectations put to the test, i can never get too comfortable with that phenomena

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