Red Belt test

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This morning, Connor had to go test for his red belt for Kook sul won. It takes about an hour and a half for everyone to do their test and the graduation ceremony where the students get their new belts The test is on their forms, holds, and they have to break a board. What they do to break the board depends on what belt they are. I have a video of Connor doing it, and then a video of a brown belt doing it.

Note in Con's video, when the board breaks, the top piece flies up and hits the poor woman hard in the head. She took it like a trooper and high fived him afterwards. I filmed it, but my sister is the one that noticed her head snap back and her hair fly back. Sure enough, a few minutes later, she had a big egg on her head. It didn't bleed, but Karen urged someone to get her an icepack for her head. She is the one to give Con his new belt, and he was still apologizing then. She told him it wasn't his fault. That was nice. He felt really bad.

Connor breaking a board with a spinning side kick

Brown belt breaking two boards with a combination of kicks.

There is a woman in Con's class that recieved her brown belt today. I think she is just great. She decided at age 58 that she was going to learn to ice skate. So she did. she competes. She then decided at age 60, she was going to learn a martial art. She rocks. She had a bit of trouble breaking her board, and I gave up on the filming, so I don't have it. She did eventually break her board with a spin kick.

Here is Connor doing some forms with his classmates

And here is Con doing some warm up kicks. I wish I had gotten the ones where he kicks straight up. It always impresses me. I was watching one time that he kicked straight up and he knocked himself in the face with his knee.

We picked up his friend, Max, and took them out to lunch for sushi. Max was kind enough to help make a video reenacting Con's board breaking and knocking that woman in the face. Ouchie.