We Arrived Safely

After a 12 hour drive and getting checked in, unpacked, groceries bought and put away we are now in for the night to get rested up for a busy day ahead tomorrow. We have one tired boy and two very exhausted parents who took turns driving down today. 

Earlier as we were driving though we had rain come straight for us. Check out the picture I got:

It cause such flooding on the roads that an suv hydroplaned and flipped upside down. Praying the folks in the vehicle are alright. There were many hands on deck trying to help them get out of the vehicle. I’m just so thankful for the Lord’s hand of protection over us as we traveled down today for Nationals. T does his forms on Tuesday and his sparring on Friday. Will post results as I have them. Tomorrow T trains with his team and gets checked in for his forms competition. It’s his first time ever doing forms at a National event. Looking forward to watching him and his teammates perform and fight this week. #WeCannWeWill 

July 4th Fedora

T got a July 4th Fedora to celebrate at AAU Nationals with this week. 

Doing some training with the fedora on. 

T’s Last Private Training Session Before Nationals 6/25/2019

For Nan Nan!

I hope you get a good laugh out of this. It made me think of you because of how Scot, Elaine, and Jeff have talked about how well you can do this. 

Right of Passage Moment for Tristan

Earlier tonight I noticed the hair on Tristan’s lip was gone. He had a nice mustache growing in for a 12 year old boy. I asked him did he shave it and he said no. I asked him how did he cut it and he said with scissors. Insert eye roll here. So needless to say Uncle Scottie taught him how to properly shave and gave him shaving cream and a razor tonight. 

Black Belt Testing Cycle Class

Doing his forms at Black Belt Testing Cycle class tonight. Now through December is going to be even more crazy than our lives have already been with all he’s doing.

Running and Swimming with His Cousin

T got to go running and swimming with his cousin today. They had a great time. Now they are playing video games until time for black belt class tonight. Here’s a pic from earlier today. 

After Training Today

Here’s a pic of T stretching after a hard training session today. Getting ready for Nationals is a lot of hard work but he loves it. 

Welcome Grand Master Attada!!!

Carolina Kick’s is having quite an honor. These pictures are not mine. They were posted on Carolina Kick’s Facebook page and I took screen shots to share with you here. 

Team Got Their Own Bottled Water

Haircut Time

LaMeek does such an awesome job on T’s hair. 

AAU Nationals Will Be Moving Next Year

AAU has been having their Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Florida since T has gotten into doing Elite TKD Sparring. Next year they move and we are marking our calendars now. 

A Healthy Lunch

T is eating a really healthy lunch. Donna is teaching me some of her recipes to help T stay on weight. And he likes what she’s been fixing. And I love that it’s completely healthy for him. A Win Win!!!

Team Picture 2019

Master Wasiu and Master Striker with the team. Our coaches worked hard during this training camp to help our team be their absolute best for Nationals. So excited for all of them and looking forward to seeing how they all do at Nationals. 

Update on T

After meds off and on all night thru mid morning he no longer is running a fever and is back to his old self. We still feel it was heat exhaustion that caused everything but are so thankful he’s feeling normal again. We’ve been sitting around watching the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies this evening. He’s ate well today too. Rest and pushing fluids have made all the difference. He’s looking forward to being able to train on Tuesday. 

Training Yesterday

T didn’t have his best day yesterday with training. His body was burning up when he came off the mat. He looked like he could throw up any moment. I put ice packs on him right away thinking it’s heat exhaustion because he hadn’t drank enough water. I called his doctor and they thought the same thing and I let her know about when I took his temp at around 9 or 10 last night and he had a 103.6 fever. I had given ibuprofen at 5:30 and he has to wait 6 hours to take another doze and even with meds in him it was that high. Anyhow I was advised to take him to the hospital in case he needed IV fluids. It turns out that my pushing fluids from 5:30 up until we went to the hospital late last night that I was able to hydrate him. His electrolytes looked good. The doc did say that she could see from the urine they took that he had been pushing his body and training hard. I didn’t know that you could tell that with just doing urine analysis. Now I know. Anyhow T learned a hard lesson in all this and that’s to drink a ton of water. All he presented with was a headache and fever. No other symptoms. His dad and I still feel all he dealt with came from heat exhaustion because he wasn’t drinking enough water and we know that for a fact because we keep a close eye on his intake verses how much he’s working out. At any rate he’s feeling better today but I’m making him rest and not allowing him to get out of bed except to go to the bathroom. He can’t train until he’s been fever free for 24 hours. So we wait it out. So thankful for all of Donna’s help. We are staying with her while down here this time instead of the extended stay hotel where we normally stay. With what he’s dealing with it’s a godsend to be at her home and not at an extended stay. 

BBW’s 122nd Black Belt Testing Cycle (July-December 2019)

And so another black belt testing cycle begins. T is going for his 3 Dan. Graduation won’t be until December though. He’s excited about belting up. #GoingAfterHisGoals #WorkingHard

Endurance Training 6/16/2019

T worked on his forms and did some endurance training all on his own last Sunday afternoon. Here’s of short video clip of some of what he did. 

Jeep Driveshaft

Scot’s had to work on the Jeeps driveshaft today. Ordering a new one to put on it but it’s going to be possibly 5 days before we get it so he’s been doing what he can to the old one to limp it along until we get the new one. So thankful for a husband that knows how to work on vehicles. Just to show you how much they’ve changed driveshafts over the years here’s a pic of a driveshaft from his old Jeep (I believe it was a 90’s model) and then the next pic after will be the one out of our 2006 Jeep. The old one you could grease/oil but the new ones sealed pretty good so you can’t do much to it at all. 

More Training Camp Pics

Here are some more training camp pics. Some of them are with paddles and some aren’t but they are all drills that they were practicing to hone in on and land them correctly. 

Kicking Drills

Here are some pictures of T doing kicking drills. He has so loved being at training camp. He has learned so much in just one year of being on the Carolina Kick’s Soarring Team. 

KPNP Training

The team did kicking drills on Bob with the electronic gear. They all got a chance to kick to score so they could see what it takes to score on the KPNP gear. It is harder to score with this gear verses the Daedo gear. T has his fight face on though in this picture. 

Endurance Training This Morning

Here’s a pic to show you how much T is sweating:

Speed and endurance. 

Practicing trying to place his arms where they should be to protect himself during kicking drills.