My son got his Black Belt yesterday
Isaac has been in Tae Kwon do for 3.5 years and yesterday was his Black Belt test. The test was rather grueling and lasted for a little over 2hrs. Isaac’s nerves seemed to calm down as he was warming up for the test when he arrived at the Dojang.
He ended up passing the test with an overall grade of A!
For the past 3 months he has been training very hard for this test and a few times he actually wanted to quit! I kept the pep talks coming and kept encouraging him to keep at it, try his best and never give up on something you want. Well it paid off. He stood up to the challenge and stuck to it.
During the test he had to perform 4 patterns, spar with 2 opponents, use 3 techniques to break boards AND he had to do his self defense moves. All in All he did a marvelous job!
His board breaks were challenging as they doubled the boards and had to break 2 boards (back to back) with each technique.
Here are a few short (1min or less) videos of the events:
Getting the actual belt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adiUoJ758go
Board Breaks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FSTNTTi4z4 <–yes his 1st kick split the wood so that it FLEW to me and the camera…lol
Self Defense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8aSfdN-oI
Here are a few pictures that were taken during and after the test.
GETTING READY TO SPAR
GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR!
LEADING THE CLASS IN SOME WARM UPS
HIS CERTIFICATE
