A Cute Tae Kwon Do Story

Since the boys are now yellow belts, they get to spar with the other members of the class (you can't spar until you have your first belt). They have all of their gear and everything. It's meant to be light contact, and nothing below the waist. So, tonight, the kids were thrilled when Master Johnson told them to go get their gear on for sparring. They all come out and look so adorable. Especially Daniel, in his over sized head gear. They get lined up and since there are an odd number of kids, Master J asks Daniel to sit out for a few minutes. He tells them to start and Jacob's gets his butt kicked. He doesn't understand that this isn't a "you kick, I kick" sort of exercise and took a foot in the stomach (his sparring partner, Peter, tends to get a little overzealous). He was done. Before this happened, though, Daniel sees us at the door trying to get Jacob to throw a punch or kick and looks at Mike and says (very sadly), "I don't get to battle!" About that time, he's called over to replace Jacob. Unlike his brother, Daniel got right in there and gave Peter a workout. Both Daniel and Peter were smiling the whole time as they're just going at each other. They did get warned with push ups for kicking below the waist. Hopefully, this is something Jacob will get better in. He just needs to get confidence.