/sobs
I'm pretty sure most of you on my flist know this, but in case any of you don't, I am testing for my second degree black belt on November 6th. The way this test is set up, there's two parts to it: Exhibition and Spontaneous.
The spontaneous is, well, spontaneous. We don't know what it includes but have to deal with whatever it is they throw at us. I can do that. The problem is now in the Exhibition. We have to have four routines for it: our intro, counterthrows, kata, and weapons. My partner and I had all of those worked out and ready. We could do with a bit more practice to make them flow, but we had them down.
And then comes this kid. I like him, I really do. He's a nice guy and all, but.... he really needs to be more on top of his shit. I don't know why he hasn't been set up to test since the summer like Amber and I have been, but we were all under the impression he wasn't going to be testing this fall.
Except he showed up at our practice today. And we have to fit him into our routines. And we have to pass an examination a week from today on how well we have our routines down.
We have to come up with four completely new routines and get them totally down in the next few days. fml.
The spontaneous is, well, spontaneous. We don't know what it includes but have to deal with whatever it is they throw at us. I can do that. The problem is now in the Exhibition. We have to have four routines for it: our intro, counterthrows, kata, and weapons. My partner and I had all of those worked out and ready. We could do with a bit more practice to make them flow, but we had them down.
And then comes this kid. I like him, I really do. He's a nice guy and all, but.... he really needs to be more on top of his shit. I don't know why he hasn't been set up to test since the summer like Amber and I have been, but we were all under the impression he wasn't going to be testing this fall.
Except he showed up at our practice today. And we have to fit him into our routines. And we have to pass an examination a week from today on how well we have our routines down.
We have to come up with four completely new routines and get them totally down in the next few days. fml.