{"id":3450,"date":"2019-03-31T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2019-03-31T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T15:22:01","slug":"march-23-belt-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/2019\/03\/31\/march-23-belt-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"March 23 belt exam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 23 was our semi-annual exam for kyu ranks (non-black belt testing), and the awarding of new ranks was Thursday. I was proud of all those who tested; everyone did close to their &#8220;personal best&#8221; and in a couple cases even seemed to exceed it. I and the other <em>sensei<\/em> noted some systematic technical shortcomings, which indicates flaws in our teaching, and we are now addressing those.<\/p>\n<p>This exam featured some significant changes to our test requirements and our testing practices going forward. In this sense, I thought of March 23 as a &#8220;<strong>test of the test<\/strong>&#8221; as well as a test of the individual <em>karate-ka<\/em> (karate students). The new requirements included falling, flinch reactions,\u00a0<em>irimi tenkan and<\/em> <em>randoori<\/em> from aikido, and self-protection scenarios. These all went really well as things being tested for the first time. The <em>randoori<\/em> with random order of attackers performed by the purple belts (with Josh as a fourth) was especially a pleasure to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Donnelly <em>sensei<\/em> awarded medallions for overall contributions to the dojo to Praachi (for dedication), Eric (for effort), and Alex V. (for leadership), and a vase to Sue for the best test performance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arigatou<\/em> to the teenagers who showed up to help out with the test even though they weren&#8217;t themselves testing.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone came through the test with flying colors (?) as did the test itself. Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3443\" src=\"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sue-gets-vase-1-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 23 was our semi-annual exam for kyu ranks (non-black belt testing), and the awarding of new ranks was Thursday. I was proud of all those who tested; everyone did close to their &#8220;personal best&#8221; and in a couple cases even seemed to exceed it. I and the other sensei noted some systematic technical shortcomings, which indicates flaws in our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,86,1],"tags":[134,133,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shutokarate.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}