Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Test for Hachikyu

Master Ron Joslin tested me for Hachikyu (white belt with horizontal yellow line) during the first part of tonight's class. He asked me to do selected kata from the upper body katas. Below is what I learned during the exam.

#15 - the cat stance is a hip bump into the attacker. The elbow strike is done with a fist palm up.

#10 - Shuto jodan uke then, instead of moving the fist into position, simply point the elbow at the attacker, strike the bridge of the nose with the two knuckles. Master Joslin didn't like the scrape down the nose thing I was doing.

Promotion ceremony will be next Wednesday, June 13th at 6:00 PM.

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