#belt test

[thehugwizard]

I PASSED MY RED BELT TEST, ONLY 2 MORE BELTS THEN I WILL BE A BLACK BELT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wtbootsandshoots]

I love being on the mat, watching these kids compete and train.

Tonight was belt tests for the first generation of black belts at the dojo I photograph for.

[env0]

Now that I'm grown up, this decade old dobak makes me look like Cobra Kai. (I need to order a current belt for 5th Dan)

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

(Belt) Test Anxiety

Last summer, I wrote a Gen fic about a pre-Karate Kid Jimmy for the @karateclubzine.  I collaborated with @kellmeo, who drew two beautiful pieces to accompany this fic.  I’m sharing my story now as the zine is finished and available.  I also felt that this fic applies to the @ogcobrafest prompt “Belt test”.

Title: (Belt) Test Anxiety

Rating: G

Category: Gen

Main Characters: Jimmy, Bobby

Other Characters: Johnny, Dutch, Tommy, Kreese, non-speaking appearances by minor Cobras

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40034421

[kaladork]

Testing for my red belt! One of our friends from taekwondo was kind and took pictures of me while kicking! (My family are all black belts so they help grade the tests and can't get photos.) The second picture is the first time I've tried doing a split kick! Someday I'll get higher than that! ❤️🥋❤️

[arctic-genesis]

Belt Test for Purple Belt (5th Kyu)

When the belt test was first announced I was pretty much thinking I wasn't going to test. I've decided I will but that said. I am entering with an open mind.

The higher the belt, the less confident I feel testing I've noticed. I think that happens for everyone. But part of that is what you put into it. Feeling that way for me, is both being a bit more realistic as well as acknowledging I haven't been giving everything my best up to the current time. Going through practice to the point of exhaustion like that was really all I had. Yeah I used up my stamina but that doesn't mean I gave it my best.

I'm going to do the best I can with what I have now. But whether I pass or fail I'm going to train after with higher expectations of myself until I feel worthy.

[stephfitblr]

ready for dan bo testing

so I’m testing for dan bo on Saturday. This is one belt below black belt and is considered “black belt candidate.”

The actual test is everyday this week in class. We’ve been busting our butts practicing forms and power breaking and sparring and weapons forms.

Saturday is really just a ceremony where advanced red belts (me currently) test for dan bo, dan bo students test for black belt, and current black belts test for their next dan. All of us are doing Taeguek 6, 7, and 8 consecutively (as in linking the final move of 6 with the first of 7 without stopping). It’s surprisingly difficult to keep up the power throughout all three. Then the ceremony is segmented into each belt level.

I only know what I’m doing. I’ll be breaking a stack of 15 boards with a knife hand strike. Yesterday I broke a brick, so hopefully I’ll be able to break all 15.

Grandmaster watched me run through 6/7/8 a few times and then stopped me. He told me that I’m more than ready to test, but that I need more confidence. He grabbed my hand and told me that he was sooo proud of me and that I’d be a black belt soon.

[kcowgill]

10/14/2017 4.14 miles

Apologies for the horrid picture. The rain was coming down pretty hard and I didn’t want my phone to get too rainy. It’s an iPhone 8, so supposed to be water resistant, but I don’t want to push it :)

I was supposed to run with Carlo and Kip (and Mars was even supposed to join!), but Kip called off last night due to the forecast, but Carlo and I decided we’d run rain or shine. Well, around 5:20am Carlo texts me that the weather is worse than he was up for (i.e. a fair amount of lightning) and so he was going to call off as well.

Armed with an app called Dark Sky, I thought I could find a chunk of time for me to get in roughly 40 minutes of running without incurring too much of the wrath of mother nature, so I set out at 6:15 and ran my old 4 mile route. My Garmin didn’t lock on to GPS (it’s been so long since it’s had to I think it forgot how) but I didn’t want to dally, so I just went for it. It finally locked after about a third of a mile, but I guess none of the map data made it over in the sync.

The first 2.5 miles were pretty dry, but as I neared the 3 mile mark it started coming down pretty heavy - and I had already spotted some lightning but it seemed pretty close at the time. I headed for a drive through area of a bank that’s been closed for years and paused for a bit to check out the immediate hyperlocal forecast via Dark Sky, as well as check how close that lightning really was via an app called Weatherbug. I deemed it safe enough to get going again.

Maybe a half mile further the rain got even heavier. I pulled over into a small alcove of a warehouse to see if the rain was going to lighten up any. Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

Family taekwondo today was the belt test. Michael stretched us out and warmed us up, then Master Chung performed the grading. Kicks, punch kick combinations, block plus punch plus kick combinations, the gamut. Straight away into forms. Chon ji, taegeuk 1, taegeuk 2, then the green belt stood aside. Taegeuk 3, then the high green stood aside. Taegeuk 4 and 5, then the high blue belt stood aside. Taegeuk 6, then I stood aside. Taegeuk 7 and 8, then my kids stood aside. Then all the black belt forms for the black belts promoting.

Next up was self defense. I got paired up with Dan, an older black belt but with some mobility issues. I had to ask him if I could take him down just to be sure and went through the forms up through form 7. I got some rest, but then I was Nat’s attacker for his self defense. Then my wife had to do her knife self defense forms.

Then some sparring! I sparred against Dan for a few rounds, and then against Nat (a 2nd degree) for a few rounds.

Finally, breaking. I only had to do a reverse roundhouse. I slightly missed the first try but got it pretty authoritatively the 2nd time.

And that was that. I messed up a bit on my forms during one or more of taegeuk 3, 4, and 5 but I was able to pick it back up. Otherwise I think I did well.