Grading

So it was a grading last Friday, and I graded for my Orange Belt (along with my son and niece), as usual I was extremely nervous, it also didn’t help when my Gi pants started to fall down. I’ve recent got a new Gi and it’s one of those heavier ones, and I still haven’t got the hang of it. It seems to by much bigger than my old Gi despite the label claiming it is the same size and it feels twice as heavy, but as I’ve just mentioned the main problem is with the pants which are very difficult to keep tight and seem to work there way lose a lot especially in line when we are doing kicks.

started to do it. I also asked for my Anyway back to the grading, as I said I was nervous despite the fact I’d not been thinking or worrying about doing this grading before I Started. I did however ask for instructions in English as when I grade I usually completely forget any Japanese I’ve ever heard.

I rushed through Pinan Shodan Kata on autopilot and I was so surprised when I get to the end, I didn’t know if I’d missed any moves out and while thinking about that I screwed up the final move.

Thankfully I didn’t need to grade on my partner techniques as I’d been observed doing this during training earlier that week. If I had to do them during grading I definitely would screw them up.

Anyway we found out later that day, that we all passed out gradings.