Day 1 of training

Wow!! what a work out! We survived day 1 of training. And we know we wouldn't have gotten to the philippines without the help of all our teammates, friends, family, and all the fund raisers. Since we were jet lag, Mr.Vargas let us sleep in and rest. We got breakfast in theh hotel room and while we were eating we were watching the youth olympic games on tv about tkd. Then we took a quick cat nap right before we trained with Mr.Vargas. We trained for just 1 hour, but we were sweating like it was a 3 hour training. After that, we rested. Then we had 1 more training. The head Korean coach was a great coach. We did many kicking drills, all of which was familiar to us. It was very hot and humid. We were sweating like crazy. That night we noticed that Mr.Vargas was way nicer to us than the korean or filipino coach. We met some very nice athletes during the training. Training lasted 3 hours. After the hard but fun training we went out to eat and hit the hay!! What we learned from that day was that other korean and filipino coaches are much stricter than Mr.Vargas, but thats because they care about their fighters. Their training was nothing new to us but it had a different approach and full of intensity. That's something we will bring with us when we go back. It just makes a big difference. Well tomorrow's a new day with much more to learn.

- Ryan and Pauline