A Wake Up Call

Holidays are officially over. Technically I don't go back until Thursday but the fact that Baby A and I kissed Dada goodbye this morning and we are on our own for the day means they are indeed, over.

I hope everyone that checked in enjoyed YouTube week. It really was a silly idea for me/us to try and do that while on holiday. I know that it doesn't have to be difficult – you can just grab a snippet of video and upload it. But you see, my husband and I are freaks. We must edit the video and possibly add music. This takes time. And patience. Patience tends to run low once the clock strikes 12 am which is usually when we would tackle the job. Staying up late was a trend. It was fun while it lasted but now we must get back to a normal bedtime!

Here a funny story regarding YouTube. Last week I receive an email notification that a comment was left on one of my videos. At first I am excited. Then I think, what if it's a negative comment? I'm glad that thought crossed my mind so that I wasn't too upset to see that, yes, the comment was negative. I was however, surprised that the comment had been left on a video that I hadn't posted on my blog. It was the first video that Peter uploaded when we signed up for YouTube. He uploaded it as a test. The video is another TKD video in which he edited together all of my board breaks from both my first and second degree black belt tests. He did it without my supervision and although I appreciated what he had done of course I had criticisms. I hate watching myself doing TKD on video. (except my second degree test, that wasn't so painful) My first degree board breaks didn't go so smoothly. And the three board power side kick footage he used from my second degree was from my first attempt in which I didn't break all of the boards. This is glaringly obvious to me and every time I watch it I think “Crap, I should have done that break the FIRST time!”

I never told him to take the video down. I didn't really think anyone would ever bother to look at it. Yet another example of my underestimation of the internet. According to YouTube it has presently been viewed a total of 93 times. Ug. And then to top it off I get this comment from “cooldudedan7” who informs me that I have “Horrible Technique!!!!!!!” Seven exclamation marks! Seven! So I replied to his comment. Agreeing with him, and thanking him for his comment (to sum up). But it bugged me. And he keeps sending me messages regarding my comment like “hello?” “What are you talking about?” and “What do you mean?” So I decide to Google 'cooldudedan7'. Low and behold I find that he is a compulsive negative comment maker. Especially on anything martial arts related. According to him everything 'sucks' is 'gay' or he uses profanity. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the 'cool dude' himself for opening up my eyes to the kind of people that are out there surfing the internet. It is good to be reminded every now and then!

So here is my “Horrible Technique!!!!!!!” in all it's glory. I didn't break the jumping front snap kick, fell after my flying side and twisted my ankle a bit (edited out), I didn't bring my hand back to my hip after my two board knife hand strike, my power side kick was okay, the last three were on my testing video except this is my first attempt at my three board power turning kick (which sucked). My 360 side kick and flying turning were pretty good I thought. I am sure that 'cooldudedan7' is a much better martial artist than I am but for some reason he doesn't have any videos of himself up. How odd. Maybe he's under contract or something.



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