The Karateka’s [/caption]
This day has arrived super quick, the final grading for the year. It feels like just yesterday we participated in our last grading. I am glad to say that all the participants did an excellent job, and we have all successfully advanced in our Martial Arts training.
I was calm until about 5 minutes before we started, then the nerves started 🙂 At least this time I think I performed much better than the previous grading, we had to be there at 9am for Griffin’s grading, he did very well, so proud of my little boy, he seemed so calm – I wonder what’s his secret 🙂
My grading started at 10:30 – I was called up first- nerves stretched, heart racing, muscles tensed and hardly breathing – I completed the requirements for the 7th kyu. When it was done I thought I had been competing for 10 minutes, while I think it was only 3 – 4 minutes. All in all a great feeling to know you are being recognised for work you have done, all the hours you have put in is for something. A great sense of achievement being felt.
A huge thank you to all the judges and Sensei Smit, as always it was a great grading for me as a participant. Your training has paid off, I can see a huge improvement from when I started as a white belt to now. I can’t wait to start learning the next kyu’s kata and grading forms, not to mention more advanced sequences. Whoooaah
On Wednesday we will be getting some training on Krag Magrav ( hope I am spelling it right) guest visitor at the Dojo, looking forward to that- we are having our final training session on Saturday the 8th- waiting to see what 2013 holds for me in my martial arts developments.
Thanks to Sensei Smit for the hard work she puts in our training, always shaking it up so that we learn and have fun at the same time.
Keep training,
TKM
William and Griifin with their certificates
The Karate Marra 