This post is a little late but I thought I would put something up about my father’s day weekend. It started off as pretty much any normal weekend with me getting up on Saturday morning to go to karate training. Two big differences happened here. The first is that I only did one hours training rather than two, the other is that I picked up a grading slip for the grading session on the Sunday.
I guess this post is well overdue, as I graded to 7th Kyu Ho several weeks ago. So now I am a yellow belt with an orange tip and David is an Orange belt. Hopefully I will grade to orange early next month. David and my big focus at the moment is a tournament coming up this weekend. We are both entered in kata and kumite (sparring) and I think we are both getting more and more nervous the closer…
No photo on this one yet as I haven’t stolen one off Wendy but David had another successful grading on Sunday. He is now 7th Kyu (Orange belt), so he is two grades ahead of me. Well, until tomorrow night anyway when I should get my 7th Kyu Ho marking the halfway point to my 7th Kyu. David was a lot more nervous on Sunday than I expected him to be. We finally got there, registered and into the Dojo….
David started Karate late last year. Since I have been working at home a lot this year I found myself taking him to class on many occasions. After a month or so of this I got tired of watching the class from the back of the gym and decided to sign up and join in. By the time I joined David had already achieved his 8th Kyu (yellow belt). In the time since I started he has achieved his 7th…