10th Kyu

Gold Belt

Well, the little guy did it. Josh passed his karate test this morning and is now able to shelve away his orange belt for this gold one. It's pretty cool the way that his instructor presents the kids with their new belts. The karate protocol is for the instructor to place the newly earned belt around his own waist, and then present it to his student with the idea of passing on karate knowledge from master karate teacher to pupil. He told Josh that he was extremely proud of his work ethic, and now that he's advanced to this new color belt..."the bar will be raised." I'm not sure if Josh understood the message behind this...he was just ecstatic to receive his new belt. Well done, son. I'm proud of you! And yeah, he's still pretty much the smallest guy in the class...but he packs a mean punch!