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Shodan (1st Dan Black belt) grading

  • Mar 30th, 2009
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    • Well, Saturday was a full day of Aikido, in the morning helping in Kids class; then in the afternoon I did my grading for Shodan (1st Dan Black Belt).

    I made some mistakes, recovered from some of them, and blundered through some others; the stuff I was worried about went fine, the stuff I was confident about, I didn’t do so well in.

    Tuesday night is the first night back for classes, so hopefully I’ll be presented with my black belt by Sensei; then the next challenge isn’t the next grading, it’ll be writing an article for the newsletter on what it feels like to get a black belt.

    I’ll publish the article here as well.

    Link To YouTube for Director’s Cut of my grading (8 mins/50MB)

    Mark posted this entry on Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 10:06 am. Posted in the category Aikido You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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