2nd Dan Exam..What was yours like?

[tallgeese]

Pretty much like the first really. More empahsis on teaching skills. You now had to set up several drills and series of mitt combinations and/or kicking drills.

After a short period of demoing basics, most of the test was spontaneous attack/defend type of things. Unarmed, knife, club, grabs, attackers choice and so on.

Sparring, grappling, sd sims w the armor on. Discussion of prinicple was conducted throughout as were quizes on use of force.

Multiple attacker sparring, weapons were thrown in during grappling. Things like that. Movements were expected to be better than your 1st black test.

You were also expected to demonstrate and explain some new things you were either working on independantly to develop your own unique skill set or show something else that you were formally studying and how you were integrating those movments into you fighting scheme. I remember that I did alot of boxing stuff for this portion, another guy was studying aikido at the time and utlized it, one of our guys was doing pressure points stuff, you get the idea. Always, the final product of combative efficiency was expected.