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

[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.