Every two months, Kade completes his Taekwondo cycle and gets tested at graduation. You have to show what you know!
Each student shows off their Form, Sparring, and Board Breaking to be able to graduate to the next belt. Kade was working towards his Brown Belt Decided.
A few days later, we were back at Carolina Pines Community Center for the local tournament.
This was a much bigger deal than the last time - he was competing against nine other boys in his ring. He was so close in his Forms. He was in a three-way tie for second place and had to perform his Form again.
Unfortunately, the judges decided to award the other two boys with second and third place, leaving Kade with a fourth place finish in his Forms.
Nevertheless, he persisted! On to Weapons where he showed off his nunchuck routine! He did really well, placing Second in Weapons.
This time Kade wanted to sign up for Combat weapons in addition to standard sparring. He was so good!!
He was awarded Second place at Combat Sparring. There was one boy in particular who was TOUGH to beat!
Kade got him in the end though! Both boys moved up within the sparring bracket to meet each other again in the final sparring match. The other boy was much taller than Kade, which Kade used to his advantage! He crouched down when the other boy kicked and it would miss him! Kade could get a few punches in that way too! The other boy would then try to punch Kade, but since Kade was crouched down, he punched his head (helmet). He received a warning the first time, but the second time - he was disqualified from the match - making Kade the winner! Ha!
It was a long morning at the tournament - Kade was exhausted afterwards! We loved watching him and so proud of how well he did!
I'm going to add this in here too.... we grew a watermelon!
We planted this thing in APRIL! I think it was a good learning lesson to the boys to be grateful for the things we can just pick up at the grocery store - how long the process takes for things to grow, just for you to eat!!
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