I selected Taekwondo as my topic of choice to tweet and write about because I am currently training in Taekwondo. I thought it would be interesting to write about my journey to the black belt and to also offer my perspective as a woman in Taekwondo.
I invented Nikita Leon. Names I took from action movie heros Le Femme Nikita and Leon from the movie The Professional. Nikita started off as a woman who offered a woman's perspective in the world of Taekwondo. Many of her articles on her blog discussed the differences between men and women and her struggles in trying to prove women can do anything a man can do in Taekwondo and in life.
Nikita was able to express her ideas and voice using two social media outlets: Twitter and her Blog.
She never used Twitter before and was not sure how she was going to be able to express herself in less then 140 characters, but slowly she learned how. She took short sentences that had impact and would post these on Twitter to catch people's attention.
During the end of the semester Nikita began a transition and started evolving. She wanted to shift her typical man vs woman topics and look into more enlightening topics about women, such as inspirational women fighters.
Her last article, The History of Women Fighters, allowed her to research and find that women have been fighting for centuries. The article marked a wave of change for Nikita. While her focus in the past was men vs. women she has grown as a person and realized that there was a lot more to discuss about women in martial arts.
Nikita will continue to explore her voice using other medium such as YouTube to create videos for women learning Taekwondo and Facebook to create a woman's Taekwondo community page.
Though she has enjoyed writing weekly on her blog, her blog will be coming to an end and she will be using Twitter and Facebook to post updates on her progress in Taekwondo.
