Celebratory Lunch

Charlie had his test for his green belt this afternoon; he had to be at the Taekwon Do studio at 11am for a final one hour practice class and then the belt testing took from noon until 1:30pm. The test involved demonstrating 5 "one steps" which are different kicking/punching combinations, then demonstrating the "form" for his belt, which is a series of stylized moves against multiple imaginary opponents, then the 5 one steps are demonstrated against an opponent in sequence and finally they demonstrate free form sparring.

As you can imagine this all takes quite some time, especially because they have the adults of each rank test together and the kids test together and then they sometimes further divide that, depending on how many people they have testing for each belt.

Charlie did great as far as I could tell, and the results should be posted tomorrow around noon, with the belt ceremony on Wednesday.

Since no pictures or videography is allowed during the testing -- or actually not at all in the school -- I don't have any pictures from today except this picture of Charlie enjoying his celebratory lunch :-) Congratulations on a job well done Charlie!