gzk Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 (edited) We had our big end of year gradings this week. Thursday was BJJ; though I didn't grade, it was good to see four new blue belts including one guy who's helped me a lot. They were tested on the whole white belt syllabus plus a fair bit of rolling with the blue through black belts. Also, our intermediate BJJ instructor was awarded his black belt. He gave a short speech about how he'd passed our school every day for about 10 years and told himself "I'll do that one day", then he finally did. Good decision Tonight was shootfighting, and I was awarded my orange belt for demonstrating hooks, uppercuts, body rips, horizontal elbows with each arm, downward elbows and uppercut elbows, all in various combinations (after having done the advanced yellow syllabus as well). The head instructor, who graded us, gave a short speech about how he loved being proved wrong, having wondered how long I'd last when I first arrived, but I'd stuck to it and had become part of the furniture.We got a new black belt too, and he demonstrated a few attack scenarios. There was a nice flying knee in there My instructor was awarded his second degree black belt, testing after having gone through the whole advanced yellow through advanced green syllabus, though he wasn't strictly required to. He kept pushing through obvious exhaustion and got through Though, he had to lay down on the mat for a while afterwards.All in all, a good end to the year. Edited December 21, 2007 by gzk Battling biomechanical dyslexia since 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWx Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Congrats to you all! "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ps1 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Sounds like a wonderful event. Glad to hear all the promotions were successful. Congrats on your promotion. "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenius." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushido_man96 Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Congrats on the promotions and the kudos! That Shootfighting set up you have there sounds very intriguing. https://www.haysgym.comhttp://www.sunyis.com/https://www.aikidoofnorthwestkansas.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotokan-kez Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Sounds like a really good grading, well done to all of you! Walk away and your always a winner. https://www.shikata-shotokan.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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