Got My Last Stripe...

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Registered: 10-26-2004
Got My Last Stripe...
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Wed, 02-01-2006 - 1:04pm

...last night in HKD. The black belt asked me to lead warm up, for all two of us, while he finished up in the weight room. It was just another guy and I, the same rank. After we went through the warm up, the black belt came in and had us go through a few forms. He got out "the book" in which all of the testing requirements are listed and placed into categories so one knows what one's requirements are for next ranks. He then had us go through specific things, just the parts that we needed to know for next rank. At the end of the run through, which took about 40 minutes, he said that he was going to give us our last stripe and that this is a big step for us, but we've been training faithfully and we've come a long way so we're ready.


There's a black belt testing in June, at which two guys who had previsouly earned last stripe will be testing, and then another one in Oct. I hope we are ready for the Oct. one. Even if, big if, we were ready for June, I would not want to do that since we'll be in FL for a week for T's wedding.


So anyway, it may finally be this year, but in any case, I finally got past that point at which I was "stuck" and earned the last stripe. The next time I test will be the big, formaly black belt testing.

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Registered: 11-06-2003
Thu, 02-02-2006 - 10:13pm

WAY TO GO!

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Registered: 10-26-2004
Fri, 02-03-2006 - 8:50am
Thanks, Debbie

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Registered: 08-18-2003
Fri, 02-03-2006 - 10:28am

Lorie...I wish I were better at this 'express yourself' thing on Ivillage, because I would put in confetti and streamers ~ and big old congrats banners!!

~~ Steffy ~~
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Registered: 10-26-2004
Fri, 02-03-2006 - 1:58pm

Thanks Steffy.


As you know, I had seemed to have hit a bit of a wall before the holidays. I took a private lesson with Master Jamie two weeks ago prior to the Friday night class, and am doing so again tonight, just to look at where exactly I needed to focus my practice. Some things seemed to click after that session that really hadn't before.


Attendance at class has been down lately with people not showing up on a regular basis anymore, except

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