Black Belt test starting on 12/1/2013

[Tai Setser-Pfleger]

As some of you know, I started this journey back in 2010 but had to unfortunately quit early in the quest. This time I will reach my end goal and test for my Black Belt!

This is my letter of intent for black belt testing 2013.

Over the next year I will be participating in our Dojo’s black belt test to empower my mind, body and to accomplish the requirements to be able to test for the rank of Shodan.

My journey will be starting on Sunday, December 1^st 2013.

My Requirements:

    No Quitting

    50,000 pushups & Crunches (150 per day)

    1,000 repetitions of kata (3 repetitions daily)

    1,000 mile Journey (run, walk, bike or swim) (3 miles daily)

    1,000 acts of Kindness

    1,000 rounds of sparring (1 round = 2 minutes)

    15 minutes of Daily Meditation

    1 personal goal – Quit Smoking (Already quit since April 2013)

    Weekly On-line Journal Entries

    Empathy Training (Spend one day blindfolded and one day mute)

    Twelve Video blogs

    Seek out a Master

    Community Service project

    Read 6 books

    Memorize the Black Belt Pledge

    Essay on What a Black Belt Means to Me

 

I will be posting on my blog http://isshinryublackbelt.blogspot.com/ as well as here.

I can't wait to start and for the end result!

[Katrina Smalley]

Congratulations!  I can't wait to hear from you as your journey progresses - you will be great, I am sure.