I am a Black Belt!

[przed]

I am also extremely tired.

I'll write about the whole (fabulous! terrifying!) experience later, but for now I thought I'd mention that the video of the event will be up for a few days here:

https://livestream.com/TDSMM/BBS2016

The whole thing is worth watching, but my musical form starts at 1h03m if you're curious about that.

Comments

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

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! :D

Get some sleep, and come back to tell us.

[przed.livejournal.com]

You have accurately expressed my feelings!

Will probably get a proper post up later in the week. (We have soccer tonight, and I'm driving my mom back home tomorrow. Even without the training, there's always something going on. *g*)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Many congratulations!

Have a nice rest.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Resting sounds lovely right now.

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!! I so admire your stamina through all this... Very interested to know about the "terrifying" bit 😉

[przed.livejournal.com]

It definitely took stamina. And stubbornness. *g*

The terrifying bit was mostly of the "please, don't let me screw up" sort. And I have new found respect for performers who have to do a quick change between scenes.

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Oh I see what you mean... and how you'd feel more mentally than physically exhausted at this point.
I watched your musical form and I'm very impressed with it: very clean, confident moves and how you made it look almost effortless. Well done. I also liked the music for your form. It sounded like having more Eastern/Asian elements than other pieces of music I heard in other parts of the video which seemed more "Western"-like and I think somehow jarred with the whole martial arts concept. Or maybe I'm not used to this 'fusion' element, but I have very little direct experience of how martial arts are taught here in 'the West'.
😊

[przed.livejournal.com]

My music was the main theme to Once Upon a Time in China, a Hong Kong martial arts film with Jet Li.

I've got no problem with using more Western music with martial arts (I tried out a couple of Take That songs myself) but once I pulled out this music my mentor insisted it was the one to use.

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations!!!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you, oh anonymous one!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

You must be absolutely exhausted but what a fantastic achievement! Well done.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm not as physically exhausted as I was after the testing, but more mentally. Will be nice to take a break and only train my usual twice a week.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Wow that was really cool! I've never seen katas done to music before! That's a lot of fun. I enjoyed watching you and a few others! Congratulations, Pauline! Wonderful job! I'll give ya a smooch soon. *beg*

[przed.livejournal.com]

One of the fun things about doing your black belt at this school is everyone gets to do a musical form. The Saturday of the Power Weekend test all the black belts show up to watch that year's musical forms.

Thanks! Looking forward to that smooch! ;-)

[togsos.livejournal.com]

fanbloodytastic ... you were totally on point with the beat, which really lent power to it

[przed.livejournal.com]

There was a lot of rehearsing and tweaking to get the form on the beat. Glad it paid off!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Aw yay! That is so excellent! You must be very proud *g* I really want to watch the video later if I can.

*hugs*

*lets off fireworks*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks! Hugs back.

They haven't told us exactly how long the video will be up, but hopefully it'll be there long enough for you to see it.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Huge congratulations - what an achievement!!!!!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's very satisfying to finally be done.

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Yay, I finally found your musical form on the live stream!

You did brilliantly well and I was very impressed with your flexibility and that terrific costume. Congratulations and well done, you looked like you were enjoying the performance.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Glad you found it!

It was a fun routine to put together. I followed my main instructor's advice: "Don't put in any shit that you can't do well." Words to live by. *g*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic - well done you! Very impressive to watch, too, thanks for the link.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And thanks for watching. It's nice to be able to share it.

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Extremely belated congratulations! YOU ARE AWESOME \o/ \o/ \o/

[przed.livejournal.com]

And an extremely belated thank you! (So much for things easing up.)