Are You Ready?!?

[sensei8]

This topic is NOT about passing judgement about how a MA school approaches Testing Cycles, a.k.a., belt tests. 

How does your MA school approach belt tests??

There’s no wrong answer because of either phrase “you say tomato, I say tomato” and/or “You say potato, I say potato”, which illustrates differing perspectives. 

Here’s how we prep upcoming Testing Cycles…WE DON’T!! We let the chips fall where they may.

Prepping for a belt test puts the importance on rank and nowhere else!!

An unannounced belt test is preferred because either one is ready to defend themselves or one is not!! Not both!!

You want to prep for a belt test?!? Fine!! Make sure you attend regular classes and practice as though your life depends on it!!

CI should be focusing on fundamentals, improving physical and mental conditioning at every class and not be concerned with any testing cycle without ignoring, for example, the three K’s: Kihon, Kata, and Kumite.

Every passed Testing Cycle is a measured advancement of ones maturity in techniques.

Regular class and practice…that’s the prep; focus on class and practice which is the focus on the fundamentals.

You outwitted my chancellor and you bested my swordsman whenever the floor is in play. The floor should always be a serious place and not a place where rank is first and foremost.

I’ve witnessed schools of the MA that concentrate on the next testing cycle and not on the fundamentals. Making sure that the students are ready for the test by concentrating on the next test requirements and nothing else. Whereas, and because of that, those students are not ready for the streets.

Imho!!

Edited 3 hours ago by sensei8