I've been writing in my personal journal for quite some time now and I've forgotten about blogging. My life is in Limbo. No real progress... just little accomplishments in my hobbies and TKD teaching. Early July I took up skateboarding to get rid of the fear of skateboards that I developed when I was still in elementary school. I fell off my friend's board and it wasn't pretty. I managed to hide the road rash I got that day and treated it myself. So late July when I thought the hill I was on wasn't that steep... I didn't know that the flex board that I was using would start wobbling past 10 mph and well... I fell again flat on my back. I was squirming in the middle of the street when I saw my board run past me, so I got up and chased after it. It's been a little more than two months since then and now I built 2 boards, one for hills and one for flat lands. The bearings on the hills one are Sector 9 ABEC 9's and the one for hills are Sector 9 ABEC 11's black ball ceramic. My RC car, Yu-Gi-Oh! and airsoft hobbies haven't progressed all that much. In fact I've left them alone for almost a month now. So the real focus now is my Taekwondo teaching. Since I've aquired two more locations my workload had increased. I had to split my resources three ways now and keep up the paperwork for three locations. I amd responsible for a Wednesday location, Thursday location, and again a Friday location. Sorry Ayres family no more fight night for me now... maybe I'll start on Tuesday nights again. It's taxing on my concentration and testing my resolve to be the World's Finest TKD Instructor. I often have dreams of winning the lottery and buying America's Youth from my boss... becoming the "Dana White" of America's Youth Outreach Programs. Just a dream. I remember one time at North Park, when I was still teaching there, that I told the students and parents there that I don't teach Karate... I teach Taekwondo. Remember now... the flyers that go out for our advertising says "America's Youth Karate", so I always made sure that the students and parents knew that. Back to what I was saying, as soon as I mentioned that a kid started crying and left the room. I later found out from his mom that he was disappointed because he REALLY wanted to learn Karate and never heard of Taekwondo. Well my focus for this semester at my three locations is TECHNIQUE!!! I watched this video on youtube with Jean Claude Van Damme he was doing a one on one lesson with a student. He explained how important the knee is when kicking. From there it just hit me and I was instantly motivated to work on everyone's technique focusing on their knee. I've been trying for years to explain how improtant it is to lift the knee high when throwing kicks. Here Jean Claude Van Damme with his heavy accent and broken english explained it better than I ever would. So I took that and started working the knees of my students. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EATGGDqNJ78 That's it for now. I hope that I can keep my "riddum" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nKx27QrgO0 going on teaching the importance of the knee. Good night. | 
