So lets start with the good. The best apart about my year is passing my Black Belt grading. I had a lot of stress going into it, then it happened and I feel good about it. Do I still have lots of work to do? Yes. Am I working on it? Also yes. Some of my favourite parts of the year was working on the demo, going through all the songs, and seeing how I can shape my forms to fit with all the different songs. Some were definitely easier than others, but the ones that were challenging made me have fun when figuring out how to adapt them.
Now for the bad. Apart from the schoolwide shutdowns, I have to say that the worse part(s) of the year for me was when I couldn't be at the kwoon to train. I always had lots of respect and admiration for the people who had to be online for all their classes, but I never wanted to do it myself. Now that I have, I have so much more respect for the online guys. Teaching the online kids is also weird, but for a different reason. When I was doing the warm up once, everyone else was muted so all I could hear was myself, and it was kinda eerie. When we were doing stick I had to be extra careful not to hit anything because I didn't have the room I do at the back of the kwoon, I had my basement.
Mediocrity. Something we're all working on eliminating. Something that I didn't do that good on this year. I was a bit late on some of my blogs, so I technically failed that requirement. My other requirements were also inconsistent at times. For the most part, I kept my numbers up, but there were some weeks where I got in less than a days repetitions for the whole week. Not good, but it shows room for lots of improvement.
Mastery. The opposite of mediocrity, something we're all working towards. I felt that my path towards mastery was crystal clear while I was working on my written assignments for the Black Belt grading. There's just something about taking a look deep down inside yourself that makes you feel good and wise about where you're headed.
Year of the Tiger is coming up in a few days, and I'm super excited to "start fresh" without starting fresh.
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