Why I became a BLACK BELT
Sep 02, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: RUTH ADDICOTT
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As Candice Winter, then 37, watched her daughter, Holly, doing taekwondo, she wished that she could do those high leg kicks and join in too.
‘It looked so much fun,’ she says.
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It was 2014 and Holly, then nine, had been wanting her to try it for a while, but after hobbling around on crutches for nine months, Candice didn’t think her body could take it.
Four years earlier, Candice was fit and active, she played tennis, and went running and hiking whenever she could. She had two children, Holly, six, and Shayne, three,
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