Jordyns Orange belt grading

On the 11th Feburary, Jordyn (8yrs old) was ready after a long 6 months to grade for his orange belt. He was there with four other Melville GKR students who were also grading. Three of them for their orange belts too and one for his yellow belt.


Before they started they had to do a warm up. Jordyn was starting to feel real nervous about the whole grading at this time. His last grading had been an hour after Brydey had died so it was a huge deal for him to move on from his yellow belt to his orange belt.


But he managed to get it together and put on his 'karate face' as we call it. So Sensei Slade and Sensei Steve put the kids through their paces. Testing them to see how much they had learnt about the movements and how their technique was.
It went on for an hour and a half. The ones who had their protective gear were given a chance to spar with others. This was great to watch. All of them did so well. Jordyn didn't get to spar but next time he'll have his gear. So all in all a proud mummy moment as I stood by camera in hand for his second big grading, making up for the time that I missed his first one. I was super proud of Jordyn, he has worked so hard and stuck at it faithfully.