Amanda Takes Off...

Someone found my website this month by searching for "easiest ways to memorize poomse." When I Google that, I pop up second.

Oh Google Seeker, did you ever find a good answer?

I am awful at remembering poomse. Actually, I'm not bad at it most of the time, but then I just reach some mental block and when I start forgetting the poomse, I forget a lot of the poomse. Big chunks of one poomse, the first move of another one, a key turning point of a third...

During the beginning of class today, I was thinking through the forms in order. I missed it when Master said, "앉으세요" (sit down). He said it twice and finally said, "아만다! 피곤해요?" (Amanda! Tired?) I said, "아니요, 나는 미쳤어요." (No, I'm going crazy.) He asked why and I said poomse, touched my head, said wings and fluttered my fingers away. I knew he'd either not understand at all or my circumlocution would work perfectly.

He grinned and said, "잊어버리다" (to completely forget). Then he went to the whiteboard and wrote down "기억은" (memory, memorization, rememberance, can be made into a verb with -하다) and "까먹다" (forget).

So during class he had us do the poomse in order, once with count and once without. I felt bad about making all the black belts do this. Until Studious (who was the highest belt tonight) messed up il, yi, and sam forms. A bunch of us were messing up, so it's not just my mind that's being forgetful!

We did 15 minutes of jump roping (줄남) in class and Brave hit my hand with his rope by accident. I hit myself on the back of my neck. Seeing as how I have welts, I'm sure I'll have bruises (멍) tomorrow, to go with the giant fist-sized one of my thigh from Late Boy and soccer yesterday.

Back to memorizing poomse. I'm going to put the number of the forms on a stack of cards, shuffle them, and do them every other day in whatever order I draw. I believe when I test for my black belt that I'll have to do the black belt form and one other random one. So I need to know all of them, not just know them in order.