Martial Arts Nomad

Havent blogged in a while due to an injury cause by of all things, badminton. It looks like math is another discipline that would benefit from adopting the belt system:

Found on digg.com

Why oh why….? Here we have a black belt breaking stuff demo…. and he chooses to break coconuts. Coconuts would be hard to break being round, because they would have a tendency to veer laterally when some kind of force is applied, especially, as in the demo, when they are placed loosely on a steel beam. Um, now I don’t know as much about martial arts as this 5th level black belt guy (notice the number of gold bands on his black belt towards the end of the clip), but you might want to practice your thing breaking performance in private before you demonstrate it to a television crew so it goes off without a hitch and you look really cool. But what do I know. He could probably kick my ass.

Also referred to on the intertuubz as UBER FAIL!!!!!!

I attended a special evening at Champions Academy of Martial Arts. Seven students tested to get their black belt. For were testing for low black, and three were testing to earn their black belt first degree.

Black Belt Night At Champions Martial Arts Academy

What does it take to get a Black Belt? A lot of kicks, pushups, shadow boxing, katas, no-fear drops, rolls, flying kicks, breaking boards, more flying kicks, sparring, takedowns, and lots of sweat. Have a look at the photos of the event, and videos I posted to YouTube.

Black Belt Students

Impress these people and you might get a black belt

Student Kata Movement

Kata Movement

Student slowly raises leg and extends with complete control

Kata

Do a little shadow boxing

No martial arts program is complete without the splits.

200 high kicks

You want to be here? You are going to have to do lots of pushups.

Board breaking demonstrations

Demonstration of takedowns