September 10, 2005

Black Belt Test

Knowledge in martial arts actually means self-knowledge. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

a fine looking group of blackbelts.
thanks to everyone who helped
and congrats to Mark, Thuso, Uri, and Adam who were promoted!

 

 

 

beware of scheming black belts!
the panel of judges discusses the test.
(Mark Gorman-sensei, Randy Sanders-sensei, Bily-sensei, Anna Gorman-san and Carl Ross-san)

 

the four testees show off their backstances

 

 

 

suicides!
Mark-sensei says "now that we're warmed up...we can start!"

and here we have our *newly promoted* shodan, Mark-san

 

our heroes!
not often you get to see, much less have the opportunity to get yelled at by THREE godans