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Title and summary Date/time
1
A do jang scene
Here I am (at left) with some good friends and workout partners helping and cheering a fellow student at testing. 		Nov 10, 2005
5:00:00 PM
2
Tesing Committee for my 3rd dan test
In August of 2005 I tested for -- and passed :-) -- my 3rd dan promotion test in tae kwon do. Here is the testing committee. Left to right are Master J.K Kim, Grand Master B.C. Kim (my instructor), Master Lim, and Master Park. With all due respect to ... 		Nov 1, 2005
5:04:00 PM
3
Waltz Across Texas with you in my arms...
After two and half years of planning and scheming we are finally "back home again" in central texas. For primarily equine-related reasons, we chose to drive the horses from Oregon to Texas ourselves -- what an education that was. To mitigate ... 		Nov 1, 2005
9:12:00 AM
4
Some special friends
A fine picture of just a few of the many fellow students whose friendship and mutual support I will always cherish. This was taken before our promotion test, so this is the last picture of those belts. By evening there were brand new belts with another ... 		Nov 1, 2005
8:02:00 AM
5
Boards actually do hit back
Bruce Lee said "Boards don't hit back" -- which made for a great movie line, but it ain't quite so: Newton's laws assure us that boards hit us back with a force equal to how hard we hit them. Fine as far as it goes, and not much help either. ... 		Sep 30, 2005
11:09:00 AM
6
Smiling through the pain
A certain amount of testing is just figuring out what you can make yourself do when you obviously can't do anything more. To highten the tension, and thereby make everything more difficult, every test is different and the specifics of any challenges ... 		Sep 28, 2005
1:04:00 PM
7
Group shot
Here are we all, another stripe to our names, some with one, some with two, and still others with three, but none of us anywhere even remotely close to the masters that tested us. 		Sep 27, 2005
12:08:00 PM
8
(non)Martial Arts
In the beginning, one can reasonably presume that the martial arts were intended as a means to train for martial purposes, aka, battle, but today, such a position is generally not founded. This is not a "bad thing". The role the arts play in ... 		Nov 7, 2004
4:00:00 PM
9
Natural Horse-man-ship...
...is apparently far from natural, because both man and horse do not, on average, do very well at it. A better term might be "Enlightened Horsemanship", but that sounds kinda' religious, which really is not necessary. Instead, we really just ... 		Nov 5, 2004
4:37:00 PM