Belt Grading!

[przed]

One of the things taking my time lately has been Taekwando training. I figured I'd be doing my next grading in June, but three weeks ago one of our instructors informed me I'd be grading this month. At which point I freaked out, and then spent a lot of time making sure I knew all my forms.

Tonight was the grading, and I actually did pretty good. I'm now a brown belt with black stripe, which puts me four belts from black.


I'm feeling pretty good about my skill level, but now the new thing freaking me out is everyone at the school telling me I'll be going for my black belt next year. Ummm.... (Black belt training is pretty serious at this school. They expect you to do four classes a week for a year with extra training on the side, and it all culminates with the Power Weekend, where you stay at the school all weekend and they put you through the wringer.)

But for now, I'm not going to worry about that. I'm just going to enjoy having got through another grading.

Here's a few more pics of the grading.

This is me doing a front kick drill. (This is the only kick the Sweetie managed to get a shot of. He missed them in my form, and then smudged the camera lens right before I did my kicking run. Ah, well.)


This is from my form, Yul-Gok, one of the traditional Taekwando forms. This is a spear hand strike.


More Yul-Gok. Here I'm getting ready to do an awesome kick. (You'll have to trust me that it was awesome because there is no photographic evidence. *g*)


One last bit of Yul-Gok, doing a slow hooking block.


And here's a selfie Ros took herself with the Sweetie's phone. (Yes, I'm very pink.)

Comments

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Yay, that's brilliant! Go you, my friend.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm just happy I got through without screwing up my form. *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment. You must be quite justly proud. :-)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I am just a bit pleased. *g*

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Well done you! :D

[przed.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks!

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fantastic, congratulations! And what a cute selfie!

[przed.livejournal.com]

She's gotten frighteningly good at taking the selfies. The Sweetie was trying to tell her she had the phone the wrong way 'round, but she'd switched the direction on the camera on him.

[togsos.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you can totally sense the fabulousness of the impending kick through the photo

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm so glad you can appreciate the fabulousness of that kick. *g*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is very cool--congratulations!

You do have to that year, you know. It would be so completely cool. As said by a person who doesn't have to go through it. But, really? All that, culminating in the Power Weekend? Very, very cool.

Thank you for sharing the photos! You are fabulous!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks.

I do want to go black, but it's all a matter of figuring out if next year is the best year to do it. (Not that it's going to get any easier if I wait.) The Power Weekend is the things that's most terrifying to me, though. Mostly because of the whole exercise-induced anaphylaxis thing. If I push myself too hard I'll either end up having to take Benedryl and unconscious for 18 hours, or having to use the EpiPen and in the E.R. for four hours. Either way, I won't make it through. Stoopid body.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

That's excellent! And exciting, too, with the black belt looming around the corner. Love Ros' gap-tooth smile, too, she looks so cute!

[przed.livejournal.com]

The black belt is indeed looming.

Ros' gap-tooth smile is fab. (Her school pictures were even more adorable. She was missing both front teeth.)

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations - and good luck with the next stages!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm going to take a deep breath and move forward.

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed! That looks complicated.

[przed.livejournal.com]

The forms take a bit of work to get, but I seem to have conquered the latest ones. Now to get going on my weapons forms...

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

This is something I know nothing about, so I appreciated the explanations of how much is involved a lot - and what a lot is involved! Many congratulations! How long have you been doing taekwando?

[przed.livejournal.com]

There's definitely a lot involved. And we don't even have to demonstrate weapons forms at this level. My next test, I get to break wooden boards!

I've been doing the taekwando at this school for nearly three years, but I did hapkido (another Korean martial art that uses more grappling and throws) for nearly ten. And I've also done karate and taekwando at another club. And on the softer side, tai chi when I was having serious back problems. Basically, I love martial arts.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! How amazing to have such a high grade *g* Congratulations!

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's nice to not be the total newbie in my morning class anymore. But I'm still one of the few people in that class who's not a black belt. Soon... *g*

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations luv that is brilliant.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! \o/ And quite literally kicking butts. :-)

Congratulations!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Literally kicking butts is fun!

[cyanne]

That's really wonderful, congrats!!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. I know how hard you must have worked on it. \o/

[przed.livejournal.com]

I've definitely been pushing myself more the last month. And will now have to continue to do so. Yikes!

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Your recent post reminded me that I meant to comment on this. Congratulations on building up this much skill!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!