TKD test

I passed my test. They said I got a 92, but I can't quite figure out how that happened.

I was lucky with knowledge and they asked me things I mostly knew. I was a bit long winded when explaining some things. I will say I was shakier on my speech than I expected too, so I was clearly nervous. I think my writing test went well (I think I over heard him say 100%)

The foot definitely gave me trouble. In my basic motion I made a lot of mistakes with my hand open or not. Not something I've ever done before and had nothing to do with my injury. The foot REALLY hurt when I tried to catch myself for front falling. I made a noise and collapsed from plank (the technique requires you stay on your toes, in kind of a wide legged plank.) There were a few other times when there was a lot of pain, but mostly it was just aching. It restricted my movement and power some, but not enough that I couldn't get through it.

My 4 direction kick went better than I would have guessed, but I wobbled a few times. Taekbaek was ok, though again I lost my balance when supporting myself on the bad foot. Kumgang went WAY better than I feared it would, since it's all balance. Koryo went fairly well, with a few strained facial expressions.

My creative gumbup (sword) was not impacted by the foot. It went ok, but I forgot to slide my foot when sheathing the sword.

Sparring was very difficult, because I was moving slowly and deliberately, it was hard to react. Sadly my partner slightly hurt her ankle. I hope it's ok.

The creative poomsae were really good this year. One student did a Wednesday Addams routine, complete with playing the cello. People liked my "magic" appearing sword. I missed the timing a little on my creative poomsae, but given I had not practiced it with full kicks because of the foot, not bad.

We had choice for our demo breaking. I hope I picked hard enough ones. I wanted a really high tuning round house, but I didn't adjust the board up far enough and ended up breaking it with my shin (not that it hurt, just bad distance.)

Power breaking I felt like I had done well enough on the rest of the test to risk trying for 7 boards as a personal challenge. (5 is required, you get a bonus point per extra board, but if you don't break them, you are scored with 5-the number you didn't break. So if you claim 7, and break only 2, that's 0 points.) I went through them very cleanly and impressed a few of the students.

I really started to relax as the test went on, even with the foot.

I really hope the foot heals soon. I'm very tired of being limited by it, but the big worry is over. I was able to pass. I will try to be kind to it at CrossFit. The dojang is closed for the week, so I don't even have to think about if I should attend or not.

But hey, did it before 50!