Belt Test

 Woohoo, we all passed and are now high green!

Alyssa yellow belt form tournament

May the 14th be with you tournament

 Ed and Alyssa participated in the taekwondo tournament today.  They did their yellow belt form and one steps. 

Ed placed first in one steps and second in forms.

Alyssa ended up in the middle of the pack in her group.  She had a large group of 12 teens. 

Kayla in the green gear on her first night sparring.

We passed our yellow belt forms..onto low green

 We all passed our forms!!!  We are now low green belts.  The importance of reaching this step is we now get to spar!!!

Summer doing her panther form

Summer answers questions for testing tkd

Summer passes her form

Summer passed and is now a Panda and will move up to the Advanced Kinderkicks class!!  Congrats!

TKD tournament shirt

This is the shirt for the next taekwondo tournament in May.  Alyssa loved it so much she wanted a shirt.  I told her I would only buy the shirt if she does the tournament..so she and Daddy will be doing the tournament.  Funny how a shirt can be so motivating!

Yellow Belt

Summer tested for her form and passed.  She is now a panther.  At the end of this two month segment if she passes she will move up to the advanced kinderkicks class.  






Kayla passed her form and became a decided yellow belt!

Daddy, Mommy, and Alyssa passed too and we are all decided yellow belts!!  Our next belt testing is the end of April.

Our first taekwondo tournament

 Today our whole family went to our first taekwondo tournament to compete.  Mommy was the most nervous, loosing sleep and everything..lol.  Mostly because she didn't want anyone looking at her, which of course, is the point since you win by being judged.  Alyssa was pretty nervous too.  We thought Summer was just going to be her normal bouncy, confident self but she surprised us.  She was shy, quiet, and very nervous! 

Check her out sitting with all the kinderkickers.  Her group went first.  I think there was close to 25 kids!

 She competed against these two boys from other studio's.

 She got third place. :-)

 Next Alyssa and Kayla were called.  They were both separated onto different mats to compete with their age level.  I had to run back and forth to watch them.  Meanwhile it was possible at any moment that Ed and I would be called to compete with our age brackets.

Alyssa won her first form match and had to compete again.  She ended up taking 4th place in forms.  There were 8 kids in her age bracket.

Kayla did really well on her form.  I was actually surprised that boy won.  He went super fast and his moves were a bit sloppy but hey, I am just a mom here, what do I know about judging?

 This is Alyssa doing her one step's. 

 Here is Kayla doing her one steps.

 Here is Alyssa getting her 4th place ribbon.

 Alyssa was kind enough to try and take pictures and video's of me and Daddy when it was our turn.  She had to run back and forth to both mats and she favored me so we don't have a lot of Daddy.

 Here I am doing my one steps. 









Daddy took second place for his forms and third place for his one step's.

Mommy took first place for her forms and first place for her one step's.

Angela one step tkd tournament

Ed does one step at tkd tournament

Angela does orange form at tkd

Alyssa one step tkd tournament

Alyssa performs her orange form at tkd tournament

Kayla performs orange belt form at tkd tournament

Summer Eagle form in tkd tournament

Summer's first board break

Summer's first board break

 Summer got to do her first board break today.  She did a hammer fist.  She was so proud and excited!  It was so cute watching all of the kinderkickers break their first board.