There are a couple things you can focus on to get better jump kick action. In each jump kick, the back leg is the “driving” leg and the front leg is the kicking leg. The back leg action determines how high in the air you will go and “drives” the hips so that the [...]
View PostMy family and I have a nice new playground, in the middle of the woods in West Virginia. Yes, that is where I backed into the tree (see past two posts). Since we have been exploring our new digs we have realized that there is one tiny (literally) problem. Ticks. Since I have been on [...]
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I decided to email my friend at Geico last night, to see if they would be willing to give me something in writing that said they examined the bar and that it was not bent. Joey sent me an email and bunch of pictures this morning. So, it turns out that my class III trailer [...]
View PostSo at the end of a really lovely weekend in West Virginia, I was backing out of a new and unfamiliar driveway and my left back bumper met a tree, hard. What is worse than ending the weekend by smashing my car, was that my car actually has a special sensor on the back bumper [...]
View PostLast night in class we began with a familiar set of basic punches. When the class is asked to step out to the left with a left hand punch, we are supposed to kiap (yell). As the thirty of us, including at least eight adults, stepped out to begin our first punch the room was [...]
View PostAs I discovered my inner warrior I ended up answering some basic questions. The questions were basic, but important to helping me find the power, freedom, and creativity that I enjoy today. Think about them, journal about them, live in them for a while. Try not to judge the answers. Enjoy discovering your own inner [...]
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Yes, I said WARRIOR GODDESS! I love everything about what those two words imply. They speak of a combination of strength and femininity, power and calm, intelligence and wisdom, agility and groundedness and possibly the ability to ride a galloping horse while handling a bow and arrow, Hunger Games style. Add your own adjectives if [...]
View PostThe following is an article that was published in the May 2012 issue of Taekwondo Times magazine, and is an excerpt from Living, Healing and Taekwondo… Six years ago my husband and I were looking for an activity for our six year old son Jonathan. He was a little shy, a little sensitive, [...]
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I am not particularly fond of heights. I realized yesterday as I stood sixty five feet ( I checked) above the ground, that it wasn’t really heights I wasn’t fond of, it was the “what if” feeling of falling. What if I slip, what if I fall, what if I get stuck up here and [...]
View PostIntroduction I thought about writing this book a few days before I was scheduled for a procedure to have a lump removed from my upper arm. In other words, incase I died on the table by some freak accident, I wanted my kids to have my version of the secrets to living, wanted them to [...]
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