Zen Shotokai: Rank Test
Hero WOD: Colin
Kata ~15:00
Bo: Striking Drills & Bo1 & Bo2
Self Defense ~10:00 with another person
Sparring: 8x Rounds of 2:00
Nidan – Rank Test Tested for 3 days.
Nidan – Rank Test Tested for 3 days. More to come. Placeholder post.
Zen Shotokai: Rank Test
Tested a student for Yellow Belt. She did great. Solid day.
Ending with 10 rounds of 1:00 fights was epic.
Zen Shotokai: Rank Test
Had a student test for their Yellow Belt. He did great, stayed strong and persisted through about 2 hours of Karate testing and physical challenges. I tried to make it hard enough to he felt it was truly earned.
Rank Test Part 2
I participated in Rank Test today, but not by testing, but as a “judge”. It was very cool. We had 5 rounds of students of various levels test today from the little ninjas to the Orange belts. My other son being in one of them.
I was given more and more students to review as we made our way through each test class. It got more difficult as the queue got higher and higher. I had to really watch more for more detail.
When we got to the Self Defense sections of each testing class I was called on to go out on the floor and test a few students. They were so nervous, I instantly remembered feeling that same way and the perspective grew me. It’s insight that can’t be talked about you MUST experience it. Much like teaching a class teaches you about what you truly know.
I cannot wait to get the change to do this again, and then later after my own test as a Blackbelt.