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It was yesterday. It went well.

There were actually few surprises, since we’d seen a number of sankyu tests before. The parts of the tests were: kata and bunkai; wrist and lapel grabs; various open-handed attacks, including defense when lying on the ground or in a chair (The chair was something we hadn’t done before. I think I sat too far back. Itai sat further up, and was able to get out of the chair more quickly for to do technique.).

At this point, while Itai and I were resting while other people demonstrated, Sensei mentions that it’s now for the fun part: defense against stick attacks, and then using the stick against uke (I have to work on the latter); defense against knife attacks (I think I was tagged about half-a-dozen times by Sempai Lee during this sequence); defense against live knife.

Then came free fighting, first against Sensei Coleman, and then against one of the sempais. I got Sempai Jenny, and Itai got Sempai Lee; I had the easier task, since I outweigh Jenny by fifty pounds. Itai’s lungs gave out at the end of this. After free fighting came multiples, two sets: the first set had three ukes, the second had four. My legs ran out at this point, and I resorted to pushing people around instead of doing technique. Everything goes to hell at this point. But it was over.

So, Itai and I have our brown belts and hakama, which we don’t know how to fold or put on. The test went well; it was a good ending to this long month.

I have a couple bruises on my forearm that I hadn’t noticed until a coworker pointed them out to me. My left hand is a bit sore, the right one, which was sore last night, isn’t. The pinna on my right ear is a bit sore for some reason. I don’t have a bruise on my right arm where the stick hit. Besides that, I’m just tired, legs in particular. I should have concentrated more on conditioning the legs over the past few weeks.

Grace took some photos with my point-and-shoot digital camera. For some reason, the Sony thought to make some of the shots very yellow; I’ve done some color correction. Here they are:

There should be some video tape, also, though that may take a few weeks to get a hold of. Scott was there with his digital SLR, and took a lot of (I’m told) good pictures. He’ll send me a CD by the weekend, and I’ll put those up.

Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2003 at 10:40 pm and is filed under Martial Arts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.