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リャエムハラジョ — Harbor

Logged at 2026-05-04 22:40:43.

The sabumnim used to say a harbor isn't a place — it's a posture.

You don't sail into one. You become one.

For the people who find their way back to your bow at the end of a long crossing, you are the breakwater. You hold the chop down. You give them flat water long enough to step out of their boat and onto something solid.

That's the work, he said. Anyone can teach a kick. Not everyone can be a coast someone trusts to come home to.

リャエムハラジョ — that's the word he used for it. He never wrote it down, and I never asked him to. Some things you keep in the throat.

Tonight the air is still and the lights from the channel are reflecting off the water like they were taught to. I think about the people who pulled up to my pier this year. I think about the ones I haven't been a good harbor for. I think about him.

I 100% caught the cold from someone :/ I'm feeling so drained at the moment and I can feel the itch in the back of my throat letting me know that I'll probs have a real bad sore throat in the morning.

TKD training last night was pretty tough. Getting through the poomsae is working I did up to Taeguk 6 Jang. I'm a 9th Gup I should only be doing Taeguk 1 Jang but with our new setup at TKD where we do half an hour of poomsae I'm slowly learning more of the advanced forms.

I'm still slowly struggling with my hip throws but when I was talking to my sabumnim (master in korean) yesterday and he told me I was doing it correctly. I just wasn't executing it properly because I'm not putting in enough strength as well as my partner is 110kg's and has a lower center of gravity than I do that it's harder for me at my level. I totally understand so it means more training!