I went to grading today, also held at Burwood PCYC as part of the Founders Cup weekend. Since it was Sunday, parking was much more available and unmetered so I drove and parked next to the train station, just the other side of the station from the hall.
There were a lot of peopl grading today, especially in the lower Kyu grades, but at the same time, there were 11 people grading for Shodan, a massive number. For me, there was only six people listed for Ikkyu, and one of them didn't turn up for the event.
Traditionally they split Ikkyu and above to the another court, while NiKyu and below are done on the other court. So I was with the others on the Dan court being pretty nervous. We had a bit of wait time before grading started because they were missing the list of people to check off, and also the chalk to mark our tare but we eventually got going, about half an hour later than scheduled.
Ikkyu was first up, and since we were missing one person, we were made to have one person step out in the rotations. We had to do Kirikaeshi, Uchigomigeiko, Kakarigeiko and Jigeiko in rotation, three rotations each, except when the judging panel requested a specific side to re-do something. It happened twice, once because their men-himo came loose, but I don't know what happened on the second time for them to ask the re-do, since it wasn't ever my side.
It was pretty tiring, and through the process I also got bashed on my right middle finger pretty hard. I didn't see the damage until afterwards when we dis-armoured to prepare for Kata, but the skin on the knuckle had been split and it was swollen. Kinda hurts to flex it at the moment.
We used a small room to the side to practice our Kata while the Dan players went through their grading jigeiko, and then they read out the list to call back those to do Kata. If you failed the components leading to Kata, they don't call you back. My number for today was 1K5, so when it was being read out, 1K1, 1K2, 1K3, 1K4, 1K5, 1K6, I was pretty relieved to hear it. For the Dan however, it was a different story.... 1D1, 1D2, 1D4, 1D5, 1D6, 1D11. That was it, only six of the 11 got called back to do Kata,.... thats pretty bad for the other five.
Kata, man, I was really nervous, first time doing Kata in grading. Everything was going fine until after Ipponme. Instead of waiting for the call of Nihonme, I took a step forward, but as I stepped, the realisation struck me I didn't wait.... OH ****..... >_< I stopped and then waited for the Nihonme before continuing the proper number of steps. The rest went okay I thought, but then I had the sinking feeling of you know you stuffed it. What made it worse was I was closest to the panel, being only two meters from Sano Sensei LOL.
I then proceeded to watch the Dan kata, hoping I was going to pass. Finally when the results came through, I did get my name called, and that was pretty good. ~phew~ but, for sure if I made that mistake in Shodan grading, I would probably fail, so next time, I'm going to have to lift my game.
So, Picton 2010 if I am still here, Shodan here I come~
There were a lot of peopl grading today, especially in the lower Kyu grades, but at the same time, there were 11 people grading for Shodan, a massive number. For me, there was only six people listed for Ikkyu, and one of them didn't turn up for the event.
Traditionally they split Ikkyu and above to the another court, while NiKyu and below are done on the other court. So I was with the others on the Dan court being pretty nervous. We had a bit of wait time before grading started because they were missing the list of people to check off, and also the chalk to mark our tare but we eventually got going, about half an hour later than scheduled.
Ikkyu was first up, and since we were missing one person, we were made to have one person step out in the rotations. We had to do Kirikaeshi, Uchigomigeiko, Kakarigeiko and Jigeiko in rotation, three rotations each, except when the judging panel requested a specific side to re-do something. It happened twice, once because their men-himo came loose, but I don't know what happened on the second time for them to ask the re-do, since it wasn't ever my side.
It was pretty tiring, and through the process I also got bashed on my right middle finger pretty hard. I didn't see the damage until afterwards when we dis-armoured to prepare for Kata, but the skin on the knuckle had been split and it was swollen. Kinda hurts to flex it at the moment.
We used a small room to the side to practice our Kata while the Dan players went through their grading jigeiko, and then they read out the list to call back those to do Kata. If you failed the components leading to Kata, they don't call you back. My number for today was 1K5, so when it was being read out, 1K1, 1K2, 1K3, 1K4, 1K5, 1K6, I was pretty relieved to hear it. For the Dan however, it was a different story.... 1D1, 1D2, 1D4, 1D5, 1D6, 1D11. That was it, only six of the 11 got called back to do Kata,.... thats pretty bad for the other five.
Kata, man, I was really nervous, first time doing Kata in grading. Everything was going fine until after Ipponme. Instead of waiting for the call of Nihonme, I took a step forward, but as I stepped, the realisation struck me I didn't wait.... OH ****..... >_< I stopped and then waited for the Nihonme before continuing the proper number of steps. The rest went okay I thought, but then I had the sinking feeling of you know you stuffed it. What made it worse was I was closest to the panel, being only two meters from Sano Sensei LOL.
I then proceeded to watch the Dan kata, hoping I was going to pass. Finally when the results came through, I did get my name called, and that was pretty good. ~phew~ but, for sure if I made that mistake in Shodan grading, I would probably fail, so next time, I'm going to have to lift my game.
So, Picton 2010 if I am still here, Shodan here I come~
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2 comments:
Now you'll have to change your current grading --> ^^
hahaha
yeah, good reminder!
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