There’s a moment every martial arts parent knows. Your child is standing in the middle of the dojang, exhausted, maybe a little frustrated, and the instructor calls for one more round of kicks. You watch from the side, holding your breath. And then — your child digs deep and does it anyway. That moment right […]
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My 12-year-old stood at the edge of the competition floor, hands shaking, eyes darting around the gymnasium. It was his first real tournament, and every ounce of months of training seemed to evaporate the moment the room filled with unfamiliar faces, judges, and the echo of sparring gear hitting the mat. I watched from the
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There is a moment every martial arts parent knows well. Your child is standing in the center of the floor — belt test, tournament, sparring match, it doesn’t matter — and you can see it happen in real time. The jaw tightens. The eyes go wide. The breath gets shallow. And everything they’ve practiced a
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The First Time I Watched My Son Perform a Hyung I still remember standing in the back of the dojang watching my then-beginner perform his very first hyung — a white belt form, deliberate and a little shaky, but completely his own. He wasn’t sparring anyone. He wasn’t kicking a target. He was moving through
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The Moment Everything Clicks There is something that happens right before a belt test that I have watched play out in my own household more times than I can count. The nervousness settles in, the forms get practiced one more time in the living room, and then comes that quiet look of determination — the
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The Moment Everything Clicked for Us My youngest walked into his first Tang Soo Do class with his white belt tied a little crooked, shoulders tense, eyes darting around the room like he wasn’t sure he belonged there. Fast forward to now, and that same boy bows onto the mat with confidence, sets his feet,
Hey friends — quick life + Tang Soo Do update because it’s been a minute since I sat down to write one of these. We’re still very much in the game. Twice a week, rain or shine (or snow, because Connecticut), Hunter and I are on the mats. Most weeks we also sneak in Friday
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It’s Wednesday. Day 1 of our four-day Tang Soo Do sprint this week. And if I’m being honest? I’m not sure any of us were ready. Thanksgiving hit us like a turkey truck. Days of non-stop eating, vegging on the couch, and zero structure. By Sunday night, we were all exhausted — the good kind,
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For the first time in forever, there’s no Thursday-night Tang Soo Do class on the calendar. The dojang is closed for Thanksgiving, and tomorrow (Black Friday) is a holiday too. So instead of lining up, bowing in, and doing a million jumping jacks… We ate Brisket!Celebrated Thanksgiving, took some much needed rest and We laughed
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We Just Stumbled Our Way Into Black-Belt Class…And Friday Night Was a Wake-Up Call(In the most beautiful way possible) Last week we did something very “us”: I saw the annual dojang sale, and said,“You know what? We should go all-in.” So we prepaid a full year of the optional Black-Belt Prep class that meets every
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