Test Matches This Past Saturday

3rd Year Anniversary 😞😔😢

We didn’t want this day to pass us by without coming out and bringing GMaster Cann flowers and paying our respects. Looks like many others had the same idea as we did. We love you and miss so very much GMaster Cann. You were such a dear friend and a great TaeKwonDo Grand Master. #RIP #alwaysremembering #neverforgetting

Sparring Training 2/5/2022

Here’s another video of the training this past weekend. Lots of sparring rounds were done. Saturday’s session wasn’t as good for T as it was Friday. Lots of learning and growing going on for these kids right now. USAT Grand Prix will be in June sometime. We are waiting to hear where it will be held and the date and time right now. USAT Nationals will be the end of July. They have a lot to accomplish before these two big tournaments. T is back to doing privates with his coach. He has a body coach too to help. Between his TaeKwonDo coaches and the body coach training T is hoping to make up for the time he lost last year by doing well this year. Enjoy the video. 

Sparring Training 2/4/2022

Here’s a video of Team Sparring Training Test Matches from Friday evening. The were doing Daedo electronic training. All the kids are looking so good. 

T’s Injury From the Training Camp

When T was sparring Sunday he got kicked pretty hard in the upper thigh/hip area. He’s continued to be in pain so we set up a chiropractor appointment for him. 

Well, T went to the chiropractor today. He had 3 places out in his hip. 2 in his low back. 1 place on each knee.  3 places on one of his shoulders. His hip was the area that was causing him the most pain though. T had gotten kicked in just the right way to knock it out in 3 places causing him quite a bit of pain. He kept trying to alleviate the pain by trying to do hip stretches and rotations but nothing he did seemed to make it any better.  Now he’s been told no training for 2 days to allow what the chiropractor did to set because if he doesn’t he could pop it right back out.  

As with any sport recovery time is so very important. Now he’s forcefully having to take recovery time. At least everything is back where it’s supposed to be and he’s feeling so much better. It was night and day difference once he was adjusted. 

USAT’s Video of Day 2 & 1 of the Training Camp

This is USAT’s video of day 2 &1. You’ll see T in them in 1 or 2 places but it will give you a good idea of all that went on at the event over the weekend. The main event was Sparring but they had Forms and Referee training going on in their other room as well. 

USAT Eastern Academy Sparring Training Camp - Sunday’s Sparring (T is in Red)

Here’s the video from Sunday’s sparring session. 

USAT Eastern Sparring Training Camp 2022 Lots of Paddle Drills!!!

Here’s a video with clips of several of the drills T did at the training camp. 

Day 3 (Sunday) at USAT Academy Sparring Training Camp

Such a great training camp with great coaches. It reminded us so much of a training camp T attended in Canada when he was eight/nine years old. It was a crazy hard training but T loved it.   The mad dash out the door to get to the dog spa before they closed and avoid another overnight charge was intense. I sweated so much boogieing to get him in order to avoid that charge…LOL! Just glad T learned a lot. We talked a lot about everything on the drive to pick up Tucker.  T shared more than he ever has as we talked. So glad he’s getting older and talking more. It helps us to be able to be there better for him and to help him where we can. We aren’t the coaches so our help, many times, is limited but we can help where we are knowledgeable and leave the rest to the coaches.  I’ll post a video tomorrow once I put several of them together in one video and upload it to YouTube. 

Day 2 PM Session at USAT Eastern Academy Sparring Training Camp

T has a good day. There was a ton of drills today. T is sore and having muscle cramps tonight. His shin is bother him also. So we have him soaking in an epsom salt bath. We’ve had him laser his leg. He’s getting ibuprofen. Then he’s resting so he’s ready to go for the AM and PM training tomorrow. 

This is just a partial group shot. 86 sparring candidates represented at this training camp.