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First off, today I had to suffer through all-day training for my black belt test next Saturday. EIGHT FREAKING HOURS OF MASTER LEE/TAEKWONDO/MORONS. KSDNFAIENKAKLDNKLACKMEAIOND!! Yes. There are six of us testing for black belt, but tons of black belts testing for patches or whatever it is. In order from shortest to tallest (that's how we're lined up), it goes Samantha, Alex, Jaron, Joseph, me, Wendy, and Daniel. Samantha is utterly hopeless, seeing as she walked in today apparently lacking knowledge of two out of three of the forms. AND WHO GETS STUCK TEACHING HER?
Yeah, you guessed it, ME. I really could have used a bit of instruction/practice on 10-step and whatever else they were doing. BUT NO, I'm stuck teaching an unperceptive, unintelligent moron how to do forms that she should have learned a long time ago.
Hm. Alex is this (kind of) little dude that does his motions extremely fast... to a fault. He's a year older than my brother, Jaron, who also does motions rather quickly. Joseph is some other kid who's apparently extremely lazy/lacking motivation. I mean, I'm cynical and sarcastic about this whole thing, but at least I try.
Wendy was likely the worst of them. Some 40-year-old, or whatever, with ugly hair (all dyed and highlighted and cut oddly) and an affinity for pretending she was the instructor. Seriously, she'd start telling someone that they were doing their motions wrong, and that they should do it like ______. And she goes extremely slow. I mean, really, really slow. I mean, it's okay to slow things down a bit, but if you don't go fast enough your motions will most definitely lack power.
Daniel was okay. All power and no finesse, but that's alright.
I ran my four miles. 37 minutes, baby. 2 minutes after my brother, second place as far as the four-mile people go. For your information, 'kids' only have to run 2 miles. My brother, actually, is supposed to run 2 miles, but he's capable of running 4.
Testing Requirements for Black Belt;
24 hour fast (beings 12 noon on Friday)
4 or 2 mile run in 45 minutes or less (depending on age)
10 basic motions, all belts
10 step, all belts
Forms (poomse): purple, red, brown
Hand technique: purple, red, brown
Kicking technique: purple, red, brown
Breaking: spinning hook kick, skipping side kick, back kick, flying side kick
AND YOU HAVE TO BREAK A BRICK.
I'm not really quite sure what kind of brick, but, hell, it's still a brick.
A BRICK.
But enough with taekwondo. On to the happy stuff!
I FINALLY GOT MY DOMAIN NAME.
stardusted.net
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I'm so happy.
Now all I have to do is download an FTP client (even though there is a web-based file manager), and start figuring stuff out.
And think up a layout concept. Darn.
Ashlyn @ 10:16 PM
