School

The 2020-2021 school year is coming to an end.  We are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. We’ve been plugging along all week. We’d like to finish early this year and it just might happen.  Planning on going ahead and getting his EOG’s out of the way as well. Love homeschooling but don’t let the fact that I love homeschooling to mean that it doesn’t have its challenges because it has plenty challenges and hard days. We love the flexibility it affords T to be able to train and compete like he does. The boy is growing so much. Been way too many changes this year for this momma. My boy is becoming a man entirely too quickly😥. I wouldn’t trade any of it for anything in the world though. Lots of adjustments but overall it’s been a great school year. 

New Favorite Pic

Life can get a little crazy at times and days can be a blur of activity but I wouldn’t trade this life for anything in the world. Being a mom has been the hardest most fulfilling job ever. 

Juan Moreno Seminar @ Achieve TaeKwonDo Today

Today T got to be in front of two of the AAU National Coaches. Juan Moreno did a fantastic seminar and T walked away having learned a lot today. Juan Moreno took time today specifically with T to help him with a couple of techniques. T was in front of him a ton today. It was a great opportunity for T. He walked away feeling great because both AAU National coaches had taken time to encourage him and help him grow as an athlete. It’s always nice when you get encouragement from top coaches like that that are outside of your normal circle of coaches that you learn and grow from. Today was a big faith builder for T of what his coaches from WOW already know but wanted him to hear from other coaches as well. The team had a great time and worked a lot of skills and drills.  A great day was had by all the athletes that attended today. 

Team Pic w/Medals from AAU Florida Championship

Team pic w/Medals and two individual pics of T with his medal from last weekends AAU Florida Championship taken at WOW TaeKwonDo earlier tonight. 

Scot’s New Glasses

Scot and his new Oakley’s. 

Video of T’s 1st and 2nd Match

T was fantastic in his first match. Here’s the video link. It may be a while before you can watch it though. 

https://rumble.com/vfl3mv-aau-florida-championship-2021.html

T had a tough 2nd match but he learned a lot from it and that’s always a win. Here’s the video of the second match. 

https://rumble.com/vfuj35-aau-florida-championship-match-2.html

Bronze Medalist

T brings home Bronze from the tournament. 3rd place out of 6 fighters. He fought fantastic first match. We haven’t seen him fight like that since he won the Grand Championship at the Kukkiwon Cup Championship.  Now he figures out what he needs to do to keep how he fought his first match in every match. Once he can do that he will be unstoppable. I will post a video once I’m home and I have better internet speed to upload the video. 

AAU Florida Championship Tomorrow

Made weight. Now for fight day tomorrow. T is looking forward to having the opportunity to fight and to learn tomorrow. New division brings opportunities to learn a lot so he can move forward. Sad part is it’s his second year in the division but first year of actually getting to really fight in the division and learn who his opponents are because of COVID. 

Before and After

Before picture at Christmastime and after picture just taken today. Before picture is when T was training at home through Zoom and the after picture is with him being in person with his team and coach. 

It’s such a huge difference. T is training like crazy now and will finally be competing this weekend in a tournament. His first tournament in over a year. So stinkin’ excited for this kid and his entire team. 

Such A Busy Week

Training camps are always so busy. Lots of training, doing schoolwork, and training some more. I was able to take a couple of shots today with my phone. Not the best pics ever but I didn’t have my actual camera with me. 

The team is training so hard. They are so excited about fighting this weekend. It’s their first fight since US Open Feb-March of 2020. Over a year since they fought last.