Wise Words of Lisa, take five

Friday, December 16, 2005

Tae kwon do testing is tomorrow. Or today, if you prefer. And on that note...

Courtesty: a simple definition of courtesty is the golden rule as recorded in the Bible: Treat others as you would like to be treated. Treating others with politeness and respect will help them grow in self esteem and will develop in you an appreciation for others.

Loyalty: is to adhere to an ideal, custom, or person. In this case it would be loyalty to your instructor and the tenats or red tiger. Being loyal is sometimes more dificult than it may appear, however it is very rewarding in the long run.

Dicipline: the strict training of mind and character. Discipline takes self control to its highest level. It is reaching for your best effort, even when the task seems tedious or difficult. It is at this stage that a student must begin to take responsibility to be an example to others.

Indomitable Spirit: An individual with an indomitable spirit will, even with fear, stand up for what that person believes in regardless of the consequences or circumstances. A student can develop this winning attitude throughout testings, board breaks, sparring, and losing the fear of failure or defeat. How a person handles defeat is what truly defines their attitudes and actions in future activities.

Knowlege: Knowlege is necessary to advance in martial arts, however it must be understood and used appropriately to be a good leader. The gathering of knowlege is an endless task which must require a desire to continually better oneself. Knowlege is the foundation of wisdom, which is the final step towards effective leadership.

Wisdom: is the ability to reach intelligent conclusions. It implies sense and judgement far beyond the average person. To make sound decisions a student must draw from the foundations of both knowlee and understanding, which are built through expirience, training, and maturity. It is at this stage that a student must begin to understand the responsibility of their belt level.

William Penn - "I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good deed I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now - as I will not pass this way again."

Proverbs 15:1 - a soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Eleanor Roosevelt - "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every expirience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. It doesn't take a college degree to serve. You don't need to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grave and a soul generated by love."

Elinor Smith - "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

Spirella - "There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which anyone can do. But there is some satisfaction which is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make."

Martin Luther King Jr. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convinience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."

Sir Walter Scott - "One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with nobel risks, is worth years of those mean observances of paltry decorum in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation."

Ecclesiaities 7:11 - 12: Wisdom, like an inheritence, is a good thing, and benefits those who see the sun. Wisdom is a shelter, as money is a shelter, but the advantege of knowlege is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possesor.

Thomas Carlyle - "Of all paths a man can strike into, there is at any given moment a best path, which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing most needful for him."

Theodore Roosevelt - "If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."

Hellen Keller - "I long to accomplish a great and nobel task, but right now it is my chief duty to accomplish humble ones as though they were great and noble. THe world is moved along not only by the mightly shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"Viktor E. Frankl - "We who lived in the concentration camps remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. Though they were few in number they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the last of his freedoms: to choose ones own attitude in a given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way."

Proverbs 17: 27 - 28: A man of knowlege uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even tempered. Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tounge.

White belt form: 24 moves, 2 kihaps on moves 5 and 23 - both on #2 round kicks.

Green belt form: 34 moves, 2 kihaps on moves 7 and 24 - both palmheels

Blue belt form (light blue): 42 moves, 3 kihaps on moves 5, 21, and 33 - ridgehand, palmheel, ridgehand

brown belt form (dark blue): 42 moves, 3 kihaps on moves 10, 19, and 38 - #3 jump round, #2 axe, #2 jump round

red belt: - 48 moves, 3 kihaps on moves 8, 23, and 37 - spearhand, horizontal palmheel, and spearhand

high red belt: 48 moves, kihaps on moves 7, 20, and 39 - spin backfist, twin inner palmheel, spin backfist

total number of moves: 238.

I'm impressed if you read all that.

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