Josie

Our karate club had a sponsored walk yesterday, and on the way to our destination we had a conversation about everyone's kiai and how they're actually all different. In our club alone, theres: "Yaa!" "Chi!" "Hoi!" "Hei!" "Dei!" (the trigger for the ongoing "Die!" joke) "Sie!" "Haa!" "Hya!" among many other unidentifiable ones What about you peoples?

I know: Heian Shodan Heian Nidan Heian Sandan Heian Yondan Tekkishodan And half of Bassai Dai I used to know the first few moves of Jion as well... I'm mostly focusing on Heian Yondan at the moment so that I can get better at it

That's amazing! Nature is unreal sometimes

Our club doesn't have written or oral tests, but I've heard of them. My friend used to go to Taekwondo classes, and for her grading she had to learn off a long paragraph based on the history of a certain aspect of Taekwondo.... or something like that. I think the closest we ever have to oral tests is when our Sensei randomly asks us the name of a move. No-one will ever forget when one of our black belts got confused between age uke (outside block) and soto uke (inside block)... Sensei's face was priceless...

I've never heard of purple being before yellow. Ever. I find that kinda weird. I think that fact that they're not saying what style they practice is alone enough to say that's it's a bit fishy.

I usually go twice a week, both 2 hour sessions

Hi! I'm Josie. I'm from Ireland and I'm 7th Kyu (yellow belt) in Shotokan Karate I've been doing karate for over two years. Unfortunately, I missed one of my gradings, otherwise I'd be 6th Kyu (green belt). It's not the end of the world though So... Hi everyone