The Lindenbergs

A couple of months ago, after a lot of pleading by Anna, Anna and Pierce started taking Taekwando at a school close by. Pierce was initially reluctant, he thought he "wouldn't be good at it". But pretty much fell in love with it from the first class. The teacher is very good and Nora and I have also started taking classes (I do lunchtime classes, Nora goes in the evenings while I put the kids to bed).

Each of us comes at the process a little differently. Anna loves every minute of it and is quite the little social butterfly. Pierce is very studious about picking up what he's being shown, but really likes the last part of class where they play dodge ball. Nora's still warming to the whole process, while she's taken classes from me, wearing a Gui and learning from someone else is a new experience. Josh (the instructor) says she's doing well and has a natural aptitude, but Nora's still finding her comfort zone.

I'm taking back-to-back classes, Judo followed by a mixed belt adult class. The judo's great -very similar to Sambo, a ground discipline I took a few years ago. I'm delighted to find there are more similarities between the style of martial arts I know (Kenpo) and Taikwando, so the transition is not too difficult. Admittedly, I'm almost always sore from the Judo, joint locks and grappling are making me realize I'm a little older than I like to think; both elbows are sore on a regular basis.

I'm hoping Pierce, Anna and Nora will all have pretty new yellow belts soon...

-Eric (Dad)