Had my first belt test yesterday during the sportfestival in the stadthalle and passed! :)

We had a grandmaster (and about 9 masters) supervising the testing and due to the public appearance he was rather, well, strict. A lot of trainees had to take their 50 push-ups due to lack of reaction when being called and there was a lot of eye candy for the public performed by the masters (e.g. spliting a plank blindfolded with a rotational jump kick).

funny thing was, I always thought, this will be no problem for me at all, but the complete different surroundings and the very small space to move (about 40? people in an area of 9×5m) made me really nervous, failing¬†simple tasks I usually can do asleep and had to repeat them again. but in the end I passed, spliting the plank with my first hit.

you can see the plank (with a matchbox for size comparison) and my new shiny belt on the picture :)

Posted by markus, filed under whatever. Date: December 3, 2006, 2:59 pm | No Comments »