晋升四段

上周四, 一月 31, 2020, 大师帕特·韦斯曼 (Pat Weseman) 在高级班将我提升为跆拳道四段. 当我开始跟随韦斯曼大师和她的丈夫阿特上课时, 我没有预见到会达到这个里程碑.

我最初在春天开始和我的侄子吉姆一起上课 1995. 结婚后于 1996, I stopped taking classes for several years until coming back to class with my daughter Caitlin during July 2000.

Over the next twenty years, all three of my children and fourteen nieces and nephews would train with me. I have also had two great nephews take classes.

Besides Taekwondo, I earned a Brown Belt in Judo, 并在 Goju Shorei Weapons Systems 中获得绿色排名. I have also studied other martial arts.

As part of earning my 4th Dan, I recorded instructional videos for all the below black belt forms. We shot all twenty-one forms from three different angles with instructions.

I will have to come up with new goals for 5th Dan. 历年, I have set out on new missions and took on new projects.

At one time, I created a system of self-defense that I was going to teach separately from Taekwondo. 然而, I decided to just incorporate this instruction into the Willow self-defense program.

I also thought that my sons would take over from me one day. 然而, as they are on their own mission in life and I do not plan to slow down any time soon.

Things are always changing. What is true today may not be true tomorrow, so we have to adapt on our own journeys.

I achieved a major goal tonight but tomorrow I take the first step on my next five year journey. Who knows where that path will take me.

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