Blog 23: 2014 Interview

Q1) Who did you interview and what house are they in?
A1) I interviewed Briana Arreage and she is in Jr. west house.

Q2) What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?
A2) Briana had plans of choosing veterinarian as her Sr. project because ever since she was a little girl she enjoyed having pets, playing with them, and loving them. So ever since she was a little girl she loved animals.

Q3) What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentorship?
A3) Briana plans to try look for mentorship around Ontario because there are a lot of animal hospitals in that city.

Q4) What do you plan to expect to see in watching the 2013 2 hr presentation?
A4) She just wants to see what Sr. year will be like and what it holds in store for her when she is a senior.

Q5) What questions do you have that I can  answer about senior year or senior project?
A5)

• Q) How do the EQs work according to each topic?
• A) Each EQ is specific to each topic, for example my topic is Taekwondo and my EQ is What is key to winning a sparring competitions in a National Championship?
• Q) What can I do for my science fair relating to my senior topic?
• A) Well it just depends what you are trying to discover and explore and prove. You can do statistics or actual experimentation with animals. But it depends what you are trying to aim for.
•  Q) What are house points?
•  A) Well the house with the most points have the opportunity of paying for grad night cheaper or for free depending what happens .

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

Q1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?

Q2) What are your most effective strategy for offensive attacks?

Q3) what are your most effective strategy for defensive?

Q4) how would you regain control the match if you are losing by points?

Q5) How do you improve your foot work skills?

Q6) what specific training methods do you do to improve speed and agility?

Q7) How do you improve in your kicking power?

Q8) how do you improve in your kicking speed?

Q9) how do you improve your speed in your kicking combinations?

Q10) what advice would you give to a competitor’s first time competing in the sparring category?

Q11) How would you get rid of the fear?

Q12) how do you strengthen the mentality?

Q13) what equipment do you use to train and for what?

Q14) How do you look for different opponents to spar with?

Q15) who do you usually spar with regularly?

Q16) How do you gain more stamina for sparring?

Q17) how are you personally training for nationals this year?

Q18) what were the first steps you took to train for sparring competitions in a big championship like nationals?

Q19) Who is your Taekwondo sparring role model?

Q20) what would you say is the #1 thing your coach has always told you?

Blog 12 : Third Interview Questions

Q1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?

Q2) What was the most effective technique you always used that help you win your matches?

Q3) What was your favorite kicking combinations that you used?

Q4) What kick was the least useful in your matches?

Q5) What sparring drill or drills did you do most that helped you speed and agility?

Q6) What drills did you do to improve your power?

Q7) Where you a defensive or offensive type of fighter?

Q8) What was your motivation to improve your skills?

Q9) What did you do to develop your strategic thinking in sparring?

Q10) What were your feelings when you won or lost a match?

Second Interview questions

• How did you start Taekwondo?
• What made you want to start getting serious in competitions?
• What was your daily routine for training?
• What types of food did you eat to nourish your body for competitions?
• What was your favorite techniques to win competitions?
• How did you get the fear and nervousness out of your mind before competitions?
• What did you do when you lose the matches?
• What titles have you earn through competitions?

Interview preperation

1. Who do you plan to interview? why?

I plan on interviewing my Taekwondo teacher that i have known for about five years, master Song Ki Kim. I personally did not earn my black belt from him but he has taught me many new techniques and skills when I first became his student. My first Taekwondo master had to move to Arizona about four months after I got my black belt for reasons I don't know why. My new and current master whipped me back into shape after I stopped Taekwondo for about three years. I feel that since I have known him for a long time I feel very comfortable and feel very easy with any questions i could ask him.

2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?

I plan to ask him what was the difference of teaching here in the U.S. and teaching in Korea, and what it was like to attend a TKD university. I also plan to ask him what are the challenges he faced in the U.S. teaching with students that didn't understand how to speak in Korean or how he was able to teach if he knew very little English. I also plan to aski him what were major success stories and horrible experiences he had when teaching at schools. Another thing I plan to ask him is what was his personal background of achieving his black belt and how he got into it or who did he practice with.