If you have now achieved 1st Dan, time to master a black belt pattern. This is Koryo one of my favorites. PS. 2nd degree is the second pattern.

Had my pre grading for my Cho-Dan-Bo, went very well, ready for the test in September, according to the doctors I should be returning to class today on the 23rd, I was not meant to sit this grading. But I pushed myself to get back 6 weeks early and received 0 corrections, this was only achieved by myself all weekend, even now on Tuesday I’m still emotionally drained, I feel like I’ve watched bloodsport for the first time you know when Van Damme over comes the blindness and your 12 years old and you see him win for the first time? That’s exactly how I feel when I wrote this…

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Now that I have rejoined my classes my master was talking about my cho dan bo pre gradings and mentioned he would like to see my kicks head height (something I’ve always struggled with since becoming an adult) and I’m not the type of guy to say no to my master. So I have 4 weeks to do it and I thought to myself why not go a little old school. If anyone has any other out of the box suggestions let me know I would like to hear your suggestions. I’ve also been told to use the lean back aswell which goes against everything I’ve been taught previously in karate so I need to develop this too, so any tips on helping me with that also would be greatly appreciated!

Trial kick