Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Owen Earns His Stripes

Owen started Aikido at the end of August, and has been going three times per week since then (except a week when we were in Chicago, and a couple of weeks of a nasty cold).  He is working on harnessing his energy, and focusing on learning and mastering his white belt techniques.  There are four "tests" for colored stripes that go on his belt before he takes one master test of all the techniques to advance to a yellow belt.

On Halloween, Owen earned his first stripe.  He got his red stripe for forward and backward rolls.  We were very excited for him to get that first stripe, and Owen was excited that it was his favorite color.

Then today, Owen got to test for his blue stripe for Kokyu Dosa and Cross-hand Ikkyo!  Two stripes in three practices!  Here's a video of his test today:

















1 comment:

Lisa said...

Yay Owen!! It's cool to see where he's been heading off to the past few months. :)