Green Belt!

Today was my green belt test. I took some Aleve and persevered. I think it went GREAT. All my worrying was for nothing. I certainly did get a green belt at the end of it, so what more can I ask than this? Nothing.

The kicking/punching was good. The hardest was doing a round kick / back kick combo while moving forward -- that was making me lose my balance a little, especially at the end of a bunch of other things. The form was good. I threw in an extra open hand block on Pyung Ahn Cho Dan, but hey. I was very happy with my forms. Self defense technique demo also good. The problem was, naturally, of course, no surprise here, sparring. Sparring makes me giggle and normally I get partners that just kindly hit at me and accept my feeble thrusts at them, but today I got a partner that was A BEAST, she was like... HUGE and extremely mean and she just kept hitting me, I kept laughing more and more hysterically, until Mr. Odom finally stopped the fight. I have a high pain tolerance -- I don't mind getting hit -- but I start getting disoriented and the whole thing just seems SO COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS I can't bear it. And I just laugh. Dan thinks the laughing was getting her all enraged. *cackle* Whatever. She was tough. I'd rather fight guys, frankly.

SO! The high point was the board-breaking, which I have been totally dreading. I had to break two boards with a step-side-kick, and I did on the SECOND TRY. No one hit it on the first try and I was the only one to hit it on the second try, including a bunch of GREAT BIG MEN! Whee!!! I totally BLEW IT AWAY. I kicked so hard that I actually fell headlong into the guys that were holding the boards. Woops! Hehehe. It was fun though. I was so worried about that -- all for nothing.

So, I got my green belt. No pictures, but Dan did come and brought Sadie so the whole family watched me. A fun time. A lot of worry for nothing. And thanks to Aleve and adrenalyn, I wasn't even in pain. YAY.