Personal Narrative: Twin Dragons Martial Arts

Twin Dragons Martial arts An important activity I had taken part of occurred during my Elementary school years. It was an after-school program that was known as “Twin Dragons Martial Arts” to which I was a part of from first grade, all the way through the summer of my fourth-grade year. Twin Dragons was a cramped martial arts program that taught children taekwondo for 2 hours every weekday after school and after those lessons, they would then be allowed to do homework or talk until their parents came to take them home. Twin Dragons felt like a second home to me when my family and I had first moved to Maryland. And I will always cherish it, and the people who oversaw it When I was 6 years old, my family and I had recently just moved to Salisbury, Maryland from Steven’s Point, Wisconsin. This was due in part to something happening to my father’s job,

Estep, who introduced us to her Taekwondo program. My father signed up me and my sister for it, and the procedure was that every day after we got out of school, Mrs. Estep, one of her children, or her husband, would pick us up and take us to the facility where we would get taught Taekwondo, with the other kids who had signed up. The people who taught us were Mrs. Estep’s twin sons, Logan and Jacob, were both 19-year-old college students at the time and it was mainly Logan that taught us. They way that the lessons worked was that we would learn a certain technique, or stance, improve and become more comfortable with it. We would then have tests to see how much we have improved and for the instructors to see whether we were eligible to go up to the next belt ranking. After about 2 years of training, Alana eventually passed me in belt rankings, which demotivated from the lessons because I was not able to practice or train anymore because the instructors mainly focused on training her and making me, and all the lower ranked kids sit out of the