Posted on August 9, 2009 at 10:09 pm in News by Bob Breen
We have a grading coming up soon and everyone is training hard for it. The standard is pretty high at the moment with a few people going for second brown. Last time we had a very good grading with lots of people going for grades from yellow to second brown belt. On the night we had a couple of very good blue belts who pushed the brown belts very hard. Some candidates who really knew there stuff and sparred well got first class grades including Tuan Nguyen, Suleiman Cetin, and Richard. All in all the standard was high. As in all these things it’s about knowing your stuff so that you drive the practice not depending on a compliant partner to help along the process. Sparring was good and strong though too many lightweight people sought to trade blows with heavier people and came off worse. The thing to do here is sting and move. Don’t be there. Worth noting was that many of the techniques that were featured in the grading worked all the time in the sparring in particular the low jab to high left hook and the single trap on the lead hand followed by a combination. Let’s hope that in the September grading we keep up the same excellent work.
