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So Sensei handed out belts won at the testing last Thursday, and both Mary and I got our yellow belts.  Woot!<\/p>\n

Of course, that means that we’ve gone from being utter greenhorns (to mix my color metaphors) to being folks who should know something of what we’re doing.  Which, in turn, also means that we now get to learn something new (i.e,, so that we still don’t know what we’re doing).<\/p>\n

The next kata we learn, then, is Heian nidan<\/a> (while still, of course, keeping up with our basics and our sparring and our previous kata).  For those who want to see how it should look, YouTube has numerous videos<\/a>; the one below does a decent job (at full speed, then slower), as does this one<\/a>.  If you want to know how I<\/em> look doing it … imagine Inspector Clouseau practicing his moves with Kato …<\/p>\n

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And in case you’re wondering what all the point of these fancy moves is, this video<\/a> goes through the kata with with at least one interpretation of actual “opponents.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s very cool being a yellow belt (it makes for nicer contrast to the white gi) — but we’re still (at the moment) the lowest ranked individuals in the class, so no delusions of karate grandeur here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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