Testing for 4th kyu tomorrow...

[aevans410]

3 months away from a brown belt yay

 

[~LV~]

Good deal man......where ya been????

 

[GraciE_FighteR]

Good luck. It shouldn't be difficult if you have been practicing.

 

[evolution]

Good luck. Being tested is a good thing.

 

[aevans410]

Passed .....

 

[Karky]

Congrats dude!

 

[TSDGirl]

Congrates dude. How long untill you test for 3rd Kyu?

 

[aevans410]

I'll test for 3rd kyu either the first or second weekend in september.

 

[aikikai_deshi]

So, what comprises a 4th kyu karate test? And what will be required for the third kyu?

 

[jenn]

Congrats Allen. God job, you've been working really hard for this. You should be really proud of yourself

 

[aevans410]

thanks jenn

the test consited of 12 techniques ranging from <rising block, front thrust kick, reverse punch> to <inside block from a back stance, jab punch from a front stance, reverse punch> to front thrust kick-roundhouse kick as an alternating kick. For kata, I had to do kihon kata or taikyoku and all 5 heian katas...

for 3rd kyu I think there are 14 techniques, half of em are the same as the 4th kyu test but adding a technique at the end. Kata wise ill have to do all the previous kata and Tekki shodan

 

[jenn]

When is your do in London?? Anyone going with you for support and to celebrate?? And what do the tickets cost. I may be able to make it out that way if things pick up here.

 

[TSDGirl]

Do you happen to know what the Pinon Nidon or Shodan Nidon Katas are? (Can't spell in Japanese to save my life, can only speak it...) I learned them once completly forgot both. I can only find the instructions online in Japanese.... which I don't know all of the commands in... If not thanks anyhow.

-Emily

 

[aevans410]

The london ontario tournament is august 12th. With the hall of fame induction that evening. The tournament will be in the morning. Spectator admission to these things are usually 5-10 bucks.

My wife is going up with me, and there will be 10-20 people up there from our school.

 

[aevans410]

the Pinan katas are actually Okinawan. Pinan Shodan and Pinan Nidan are actually reversed in shotokan, Our Heian katas (the japanese counterparts), Heian Shodan is similar to Pinan Nidan, and our Heian Nidan is similar to Pinan Shodan.

if you want to see the JKA kata videos, go to

 

[TSDGirl]

That is so weird to me how it is just completly reversed like that... but thanks for the link.

 

[aevans410]

Heian Shodan difficulty wise is easier that heian nidan, so for simplicity of belt testing, Shotokan switched them. Most okinawan styles stay true to the order in which Master Itosu (allegedly, I don't wanna start a shorin ryu war here) wrote them.

 

[TSDGirl]

I learned Pinan Nidan before Pinan Shodan which is weird because isn't Shodan before Nidan?

 

[aevans410]

Shodan means 1st level, Nidan means second level, you are correct there.

It is easier to teach someone pinan nidan then it is pinan shodan.

 

[TSDGirl]

I find that weird, I usualy learn harder moves before the easy ones. I learn a lot of things backwards.