Joel Engelsma

 Today i am going to talk about a certain calisthenics move that i was working towards and i was finally able to get it a couple weeks ago it is called the tuck planche where instead of your feet being straight out behind you like a normal planche your feet are tucked in with only your hands touching the ground its a great move to use to build relative strength and it looks really cool.

Sermon Sunday our sermon in the morning was on acts and the diffrent court trials that PAul had to go through starting with the Sanhedrin with there blin hate of Paul and ending with king Agrippa an he almost got saved. 

 I didd a speech in speech and debate class about mountain biking and some other stuff like the history of mountain biking first oi went through the hstory of mountain biking wich isnt really that long because it really only started to get going during the seventy. 

 The style karate i do is very similar to the shotokon style karate and that style is actually the most popular style but a lot of the kata we share we have a ton of hein kata that shotokon also has we also have a bunch of takeout kata that they also have.

 Kata is an integral part of karate its extremely fun to learn and do but sometimes it is extremely confusing our martial takes as lot of kata out of shotokon karate and slightly changes it basically what they do is shorten the stance and make the strikes different as well but basically we have all the same kata. 

 My speech i have to do for speech and debate class its a speech about somewthing so i decided to do mountain biking and thats something i know pretty well so were going to go into what types of bikes the history of bikes and some other thing like the diffreent types of features on a bike line. 

 The third tip test is maybe the easiest depending on how good you are at at memorizing things but basically the third tip test is all of the Japanese terms that you need to know after that belt it really nothing else other that you just gotta memorize and get really good at the terms. 

 The first tip test is as i said in the last blog that its all of the physical stuff besides kata and its by far the easiest there are basically no excuses for you to not few your first tip test within in a month of receiving your next belt. It goes over all the essential blocks hits punches kicks, and all of that fun stuff.

 Tonight i am going to test for my second tip i am getting closer to getting my purple belt but I decide I am going to go in depth about what the second tip test actually is. Each tip focuses on different things. The first tip focuses on most of the physical side of things like kicks punches blocks stances etc. The second tip is much more stuff you have to memorize but the second tip is difficult because it involves all of the kata and the higher you go the more kata you must know.  With that being said you have to also to the self defenses which is just a few things that you go over if they were to grab your wrist or shoulder or both your wrists things like that. That is more just practicing moves in a line to see what works and what doesn't. 

 So we had a hymn festival that got hosted by community OPC which is a cool church and we have very close ties to that church and people from out church came and participated and also people from our old church did as well it was super fun and he heard a bunch of wrens songs but some old old classics as well. 

 The middle child characteristics I see in myself are have always wanted to be different. I always enjoyed outdoor activity more then anybody else in the family and have gotten into some strange hobbies like different clicking methods.  Something that seems really strange to a lot of my older siblings and friends were my running career and how I liked doing it.  My favorite thing to do are going outside in almost any weather and doing tricks on my bike.      The firstborn characteristics were someone that had a lot of rules and was mature faster then everybody else. I can see all of these in Andrew how he always compulsions that it was harder when he was younger to do things and the punishments were always bigger and somehow worse.       The youngest characteristics in Julia are not very big at the moment because she is only three but you can see right no she enjoyed attention and usually get things the way she wants ...

 For speech and debate class i have to do a speech about something and its explaining that thing to the businessman so decided something that i know quiet a bit about i decide to do mountain biking the history of mountain biking and things like that i need to research more about the history of mountain biking and stuff like that but its going to be a fun two week project.