| This page is dedicated to me and Mel, and our times together. As you can see, much of our activies involve Tae Kwon Do. We enjoy training together, which at times include a 2 mile run, sparring, self defense, forms, nunchucks (not numchucks), boardbreaking, and other funstuff. Actually, Mel has technically moved up the ranks and is the only "beginner" belt that is given a leadership/teacher status and help me and my dad teach TKD at our schools in the Alemeda area.
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| This is me doing a splits kick in the air, while twirling around my nunchucks. Pretty cool, eh? Thank goodness you can't see my face cuz I look funny...hehehhee=) It almost looks like I'm sitting on the table.
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| Ok, I'm sorry If I'm showing off here, but I had to put my trademark splits=) This always kills the guys to see me do this and I alway love hearing their moans of agony...hahahaha. Actually, this position is extremely hard to balance and Mel had to take the picture really fast before I did a face plant into the floor=P
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| As you can tell, Mel is flexible as well and can do the splits just as I can. That is why she can do most of the stuff I can do, and even some stuff I can't do (We all have our talents). Oh, check out our nunchucks. Mel has her own pair of nunchucks, so evil beware=) We both have customized our own nunchucks to fit ourselves. Mel's nunchucks are blue with her own distinctive design. Mine are red, and they too have their own distinctive design. Our nunchucks are like our Jedi lightsabers, which are unique to every Jedi.
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| Ok, this is funny that Mel has actually kicked the wind out of me with a back kick to the solarplexes. Yes Yes! I know it was just an accident, but still, you shocked me when you did that. I was caught off guard so I deserved it=) Besides, I don't mind the pain. Just don't get to cocky about it=)
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| This was actually suppose to be a serious picture, but of course we started laughing...hehehhehe, so the pic looks a little funny. It kind of looks like we're dancing, but we're not. If youc look closely, you can see our designs on our nunchucks and how they differ.
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| So this is me in the process of doing a roundhouse kick. It's kind of cool action shot and I was moving a lil too fast for the camera to catch me, that's why my leg is blurred out a lil.
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| Here's my fully extended roundhouse kick.
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| Here's Mel holding a beautiful sidekick in the air while holding her nunchucks. Hopefully I'll be able to advance her to a new belt and be able to get her blue uniform to better suit her.
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| Ack! Mel in action! She's doing some basic triangles from which she can perform other more advanced meneuvers. Watch out! I taught her well, and yes she can use them very well!!!! I shocks me that she may be better than me sooner or later...hehhehehe. You go Mel!
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| Here's Mel in a horse stance twirling her nunchucks like a professional. I hope to get her into a weapons comepetition someday.
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| Ok, this may scare some of you that I have taught Mel how to defend herself from attack. Yes, I trully am in an armlock and totally dissabled at this moment. My look of pain, though, is fake. But this meneuver is real, and Mel knows how to do this=) Don't worry. She's only to use it if you attack her, so no worries=)
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| I remember the first time I sparred Mel. She was so freaked out and so intimidated. Now, she looks forward to sparringme again so that she can improve more and attempt to get back at me for giving her a bruise the first time =/ I'M SO SORRY MEL!!! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT=) Well, I don't kick anymore when I spar with Mel. I mostly just block her attacks, so that I don't hurt her again. I'll wait till she gets a lil more advanced before I fight back again. It's good training to turn up the intensity little by little.
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| Woah! The infamous Mel and Peter Duo! The Neo Trinity combonation. When we are together, we really are a fearless duo and we could get ourselves in trouble because we build off of each other.
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| "You may have been searching for me the past years, but I have been searching for you my whole life"....Yes, Trinity, you are the one! hehehe...well, at least the only one whom I have passed on the knowledge of the nunchucks to. You make me so proud;) This is our master & apprentice shot...aka the Neo & Trinity shot.
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| Here's my apprentice at work, showing off her skills. Mel is such a fast learner that it is amazing. It's scary to think that maybe someday she may be better than me...hehehhe;)
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| You know the cool thing about teaching someone martial arts? You get to see yourself from a third person perspective=) hehehe, Mel's technique was so similar, but of course it was! I taught her=) and now we're a fearless duo when it comes to martial arts.
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| You know Mel, those are now your nunchucks. You have trully earned them and proven to me you have respect for the art and you can effeciently use these weapons. I hope one day, maybe, you may aspire to continue your training and become a black belt.
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| So here is the ultimate goal for many martial artist. It is one's Blact Belt. These two young students in 7th and 8th grade, on September 22, 2000 finally accomplished something that was merely a dream for seven years. Yes, it took them seven years to accomplish something that very few people ever accomplish. They worked extremely hard and have proven themselves to be mature young martial artists. More importantly, they have proven to themselves that nothing is impossible when one puts one's heart in it. To believe in the beauty of one's dreams...
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| So that is all the pics of Mel and I doing what we love. By the way. She isn't a blackbelt, although she does work out with them. She in a league of her own. Her belt is a white belt with a black stripe in the middle. I have no clue what to call it because she's the only one who has ever had that before. The best name is a "Mel Belt" =P
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