February 15

Blog #14 – Last Blog!

Today’s block was entirely devoted to my touching up my final presentation! I decided that my presentation will be a video, and to go along with it, a demo. I’m doing this because unfortunately, I still have to do my theory part and kicking part of my belt test, and that’s next week, so I won’t be able to show any of the videos. I also started to do the practice voiceovers so that I’m able to correctly time them for the actual voice recordings I will be using in my video. I think I have officially finished off writing the scripts too!! Thankfully, it looks like my presentation will come right within the time limit of 5 minutes. So that is what I have been working on for this blog!! This Genius Hour ending is bittersweet, but luckily we’ll be starting a new one fairly quickly. I’ve learnt so many things, but most of all, this Genius Hour gave me back my passion for Taekwondo, and for that I am greatful 🙂

See you next blog! See you next Genius Hour!

February 8

Blog #13 – One More Week!

There’s only one week left until Genius Hour is over, it’s a bittersweet ending! For the past week or so, I’ve been editing my video on the bus, so I don’t need to worry about that at all. So, today I worked on a potential script that I will be using for the voice recording in my video. I also found a nice slideshow theme, and I briefly started working on my slideshow writing/images as well. I have also been regularly practicing my Tornado Kick throughout last week and this week because my belt test is coming up this Saturday!! So look forward to a good video coming from me next week!

See you next blog!

February 1

Blog #12 – Almost the End

This week, I went to Taekwondo and my Instructor told me that he would like it if I was able to do a four directional Tornado kick for my belt test, while breaking boards at the same time. So, that’s exactly what I practiced throughout the week. I also continued to practice my combination Tornado and Roundhouse kick, as I will also have to do it in my belt test (that is next week!!). But for the most part, I started to begin planning my final Genius Hour presentation. I’ve been continuously working on the final video for my presentation (I did a lot of progress this week), and a Google slides to go along with it. I’ve also started writing my script. Oh and something that I was surprised to learn was that doing a turning kick after jumping is harder than it looks! My turning kicks kept looking like front kicks because I wasn’t turning my hip enough, so I’ll have to work on that some more.

Here’s this week’s video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRB8Y6vJvQh4xW-YTywfeI3q76aDqJPx/view?usp=drivesdk

See you next blog!