today was stripe test day for Eva and I. We both had some very challenging classes to earn our stripes. Andy’s class was a pre-test day with the full stripe test to be on Thursday. Andy did really well with the nunchuk and self-defense portions of his test, which is pretty much the whole thing. He still has work to do on some of his kicks but he is trying. He missed his previous stripe test but had been to classes for all of the last session. He’ll likely test and then do an extra bit in order to double stripe this Thursday.
Today was stripe test for all of us at America’s Best Defense. My test was this morning and the kids had their tests in the afternoon. Andy has been out of classes for the past month and only came back on Tuesday. I was very surprised that he knew the nunchuk form as well as he did. Andy told me that he was actually moving his wrists along with everyone as he watched them do class all the past month. He was not supposed to get a full stripe because he had not been in to class but he got one none-the-less. We will have to do some catch up for him this month to bring him up to speed.
Eva did a great job in her class. We are both on a gun defense rotation and so she was doing a great job with it. She even had to do gun defense with Mr. Brochu as the person holding the gun. She was a bit freaked at that but she recovered quickly.
