A Midterm

Tuesday was karate testing and it was my first time doing a midterm which is in between a recommended black belt and a real black belt. A recommended black belt is half red half black and you have to test 3 times for 3 black stripes you get put on the belt.

The 4th time you test is for your black belt and that's where you have to break boards and stuff like that. Recommended is training to break the boards and stuff like that. I just got my first stripe put on.

They have a point system for midterms which is how they decide if you pass is if you have enough points from when the judges were watching at testing. Its really stressful because they judge your points on:

1. If you have good stances
2. If you yelled in the correct places (or if you yelled at all)
3. How loud you are
4. How snappy your form was
5. If you were paying attention to where your target was
6. And everything else

To get the most points you have to do everything correctly on all 5 forms you have to do. Perfect points would be 270 points. They showed us our points when we went to get our belts and I got a 250. And since they take off points in tens that means I only did 2 things incorrectly!

I think that's pretty good for my first time doing a midterm. I'm happy. =)