Had our annual black belt camp/grading over the weekend, 5 trainings friday arvo to sunday arvo, managed to pass my nidan grading! I do realise this is just a step, but I like to know my instructors think I'm making progress, so that I know I really am getting better, 4 years after my last grading. Got a bit of video of it and will put something together when I can, but the highlights were definitely in the fighting, at the end of the grading. My last fight, over 3mins long, saw me take a spinning ushero-geri (back kick) straight in the solar plexus from the 6th dan head instructor for New Zealand, who just said he wanted to push me a bit :hammer:, was sucking air for quite a while. Not so bad as the girl from my dojo who also did her nidan, somehow her kneecap slid out of place, she gritted her teeth, put it back in (she's a doctor) and kept fighting. Just thought I'd share, good weekend for me, even if I did skip studying for a couple uni tests...:whistle:
Finally got my a into g, here's my grading video. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtO0r6LEAIQ"]YouTube- Nidan Grading Vid[/ame]
nice! will comment further as soon as it loads more than half the clip (possibly later as i'm falling asleep)
dude, you should have totally used nakadaka ken to the armpits when he grabbed you by the hair, you have longer arms than him, use them! all in all very nice, anyway. congrats again!
