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Well we are almost there. The Black Belt candidates have been training for weeks now. This is there last week. All their training must come together this Saturday in one impressive demonstration. Keri Myers of Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs Colorado will be among them. The First of our students to test for black belt.
Keri has over come push ups. Achieving her 25 only a couple of weeks ago. She has turned 45 minutes of kihon into a 17 minute work out. And she has cranked out perhaps hundreds of katas. Sbe has even sustained an injury (though not karate related) that she must now overcome.
But that is all part of preparing to become a black belt. It does not matter how long you have trained. It does not matter how many dues you have payed. No one is awarded a black belt with out earning it.
Saturday is it. Friday they will all take a one hour written test. Then at noon Saturday the physical display of their skills will begin. Kihon, then crunches and push ups and right into kata. An hour and a half into it they may be able to get their first drink of water. Just a few sips and then back on the mat for another kata. Self defenses, One steps, and sticks. Then comes the sparring exam. This is it. This is were they will make or break, and a host of black belts will be there more them willing to break them.
If they do not break, 13 minutes later a black belt emerges. Beaten, worn out, drenched in sweat, and victorious. Ah yes VICTORIOUS!
My students are all invited. The Brown Belts to the test. And everyone else to the Black Belt Ceremony at 6:00. You won’t want to miss it. It is very inspiring. You will find yourself looking forward to the day when you can stand in the circle of black belts. I too will look forward to the day for you.
See you there.
Sincerely,
Scott Ward, Sensei
Ward’s Family Karate, LLC
Providing the finest training in Karate and Martial Arts in Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs martial arts: http://www.wardsfamilykarate.com/colorado-springs-martial-arts/
Web site: www.WardFamilyKarate.com
Email: scott.ward@wardsfamilykarate.com
Blog: www.wardsfamilykarate.blogspot.com
I had an interesting Saturday morning. We have a great dojo at Ward’s Family Karate in Colorado Springs, but sometimes it is the company not the location. It’s great to get together with other black belts and have a good, sweaty workout. Unfortunately it did work out quite that way.
I knew something felt funny as I was getting in my gi (karate uniform) this morning. Then I got out to the mat and started stretching. Sure enough something was wrong with my back. This would have been of little surprise if I had been sparred last night. However, I just enjoying a night of watching sparring matches.
Back to the workout. I took it slow but joined in with the circle of black belts and began Kihon.
We do an exercise called Kihon Rinchu. Its a fantastic Karate workout that starts with a warm up, builds to an intense dynamic kicking and punching Kihon and ends with a nice cool down. I can’t wait to teach Kihon Rinchu to our up and coming black belt. It is one of my favorite ways to train.
Well bending at the waist was not very comfortable today. I did do a set of Chinese push ups, but besides that I refrained from any of the bending exercises.
It still managed to be a fairly sweaty workout. So even when you are not at the top of your game, karate allows you to get a good workout by carefully arranging the drills and techniques that you do.
After about a 45 minute workout we got ready fort he gather kyu belts that had come in for their belt test review.
So next I spent a hour and half training a half a dozen kyu belts in a complete review for their up coming belt test next week. To bad non of my students were there. It would of been a great extra training section for them. Black belts were spread out over the mat, each with their own group of students to work with. J.B. had a group of white belts that he was working with.
While I normally do my teaching in my own dojo it is nice to be able to give back to the karate community in general (I think Kyoshi Haynes really appreciated the help). We did that last week also as we acted as referees and officials at the invitational karate tournament.
So what’s the moral of the story. You can always find a way to workout and practice. So not excuses! Also don’t neglect giving back to the community. It helps make this a better world.
Sincerely,
Scott Ward, Sensei
Ward’s Family Karate, LLC
Providing the finest training in Karate and Martial Arts in Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs martial arts: http://www.wardsfamilykarate.com/colorado-springs-martial-arts/
Web site: www.WardFamilyKarate.com
Email: scott.ward@wardsfamilykarate.com
Blog: www.wardsfamilykarate.blogspot.comit