The end times are upon us, at least according to the local tv weather reports.  Disaster sells.  Schools closed yesterday at 5:30 pm, even before the snow started.  The roads did get exciting last night, but by this morning the main arteries were plowed.  Our neighborhood won’t see a plow truck until late this week.  So far though, no looting, riots, or cannibalism to report.

Between family visits late last week, the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby on Saturday, and a Cub Scout Pack meeting on Monday, we haven’t trained since last Wednesday.  Weather permitting, we’ll go to class tonight and Thursday, but then miss Saturday and Monday again.  It’s hard to build training momentum when attendance is spotty.

I made it to class on Tuesday night for my first ever Hoijeon Moosool (HJMS) training session.  When I first got my second dan in Taekwondo, I wanted to train in HJMS and possibly pick up a black belt in it between my 2nd and 3rd TKD dan testing.  This was back in 1997.  I successfully failed then.  Now I have another almost 3 years before I can test for my 4th TKD dan, and my family is on board.  All I can say after my first class is that it’s different.  I think I’ll be ok once I get going.  I think it’ll help my TKD footwork a lot.  I think it’ll take some practice to compartmentalize the TKD muscle memory.

Today at work, during my lunchtime, I plan on practicing our standard TKD forms, the forms I’ve been trying to relearn (I just about have those down), and a few of the moves I learned last night.  Should be very entertaining.

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