Jan 21, 2012: Today, I tested for and received my yellow belt in karate.  We started with our Basics, which are the easiest.  There is a Basic move in almost every technique.  Then we moved on to Sports Combinations.  Sport Combinations are a mixture of several different Basics.  Then we did Self- Defense.  That is where someone grabs your hand, shoulder, shirt, or hair.  Then, you have to get out with a certain technique.  Forms was next.  Forms is a combination of twenty different Basic blocks and strikes.  Soon after, I sparred my friend Erin Call.  I think we tied.  Then we did something called breaking.  It's where you have to put your foot or fist (though foot is easier) through a one inch thick piece of pinewood.  I used a Side kick, which is very hard to explain.  I was the first one to break my board, and I broke it with my first kick! That concluded the test, and then we bowed out and yelled;
"Hung Sung Soo Go! (always do your very best, and a Kwanganim (a fifth degree black belt) Rickard yelled) Testing Dismissed!" Then everybody yelled, "OMEGA!"