The Martial Art Club

[driftingsakura]

I'm grading in two weeks. I can basically do my grading apart from one move! It's really frustrating so I've asked my sensei to show me at one point but I think we have an inter-club competition next week.

So you can put in "Judo grading - 23rd" and "Inter-club competition" into your event calendar

I really hope he gets the black belt! In judo, we have to do loads of competitions to gain points. Of course you can go the technical route but fighting for it sounds much more fun ^^

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Well, I'm sure you'll go great!

Your gradings sound really different to my gradings. Do you do anything other than sparing at your gradings?

At mine, we do techniques up and down the hall (hand movements, kicks, combos) and our patterns and sparring. I prefer doing the patterns between up and down the hall and sparring so that we get a bit of a 'relax and breath' time. c:

[driftingsakura]

We're pretty much the same. We have to demonstrate throws and hold downs on the other. In higher grades you may have to show a bit of sparring but they often judge us during our sparring time and work on the technical side.

[mi ainsel]

Martial Artie's!
Username: Mello-chan
Martial Art: Judo
Belt Rank: 4th Kyu (Orange belt senior) Grading to 3rd Kyu (Green belt senior).
Other: Well hello there. :3 I'm the one who introduced Eru (driftingsakura) to my Judo club. My dad is one of our senseis.

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Welcome!

My friend got his Black Belt on a distinction, which is actually hard to get on a Black Belt grading apparently. C:

Last night at my class there were only three students there. Me, my brother and a friend Em. And one instructor.
We went to have a drink break and when we came back, our instructor was practicing her pattern. So Em went up and was was watching her and pretending to write stuff down.
Our instructor paused in her pattern and asked Em what she was doing.
Em replied saying she's the Master and was watching her to see if she was doing it right.
I said to Em, "Jee, Master. You've gotten shorter, younger and turned into a girl!"
Em laughed and said, "I know, right?"
It was funny. c:

[HorseJess]

Martial Artie's!
Username:
HorseJess
Martial Art:
Kempo-Goju Ryu
Belt Rank:
Purple with a black stripe
(4th Kyu)
Other:
Howdy! c:

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Welcome

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