Region 2 Grading at Haywards Heath
10 April 2005

On Sunday 10th April 2005 students from Master Goward's Region 2 (Surrey, Sussex and Kent) arrived at the Dolphin Leisure Centre, Haywards Heath for the Region's Grading Examination.

Warm-up (Nuan-Sern)

The lesson before the grading began at 3pm with the customary warm-up (nuan sern) session.

Instructor Nick Evagorou (2nd Duan), side thrust kick
(cher chuai ti) with the class

Master Goward (5th Duan) then took students through the lesson before the grading examination.

Pinan form 4 (Pinan Ser Duan), 1st movement

Students had the opportunity to practise their forms ...

... and their one and three step sparring.

Master Goward then demonstrated one-step sparring to the class - highlighting low and high target areas and positioning.

Master Adam Goward (5th Duan) demonstrates with the
assistance of Nick Evagorou (2nd Duan)

Instructor Tina Matania (3rd Duan) assists a 10th ji student with blocking techniques in 3-step sparring (san puh tooi ta)

At 4pm the grading itself began. First with the 8th Ji yellow belts ...

8th Ji yellow belt Steven Fettner prepares for
side thrust kick (cher chuai ti)

... and then the 10th Ji white belts.

10th Ji White belt students perform Basic Form 1 (Chee Pen Ee Thau)

Two 10th Ji students were promoted to 8th Ji yellow belt as they had trained previously and met the required standard. Master Goward asked them to perform front thrust kick (chean chuai ti) on the white break-board.

The grading continued with the higher Ji grades ...

2nd Ji blue belt, Tim Eves (Horsham) endured the 5 minutes horse-stance (ping ma bu) requirement whilst the lower Ji grades took their examination.

Tim Eves (2nd Ji blue belt) from Horsham - Ping Ma Bu,
balancing book on head to maintain posture

Free sparring (tooi ta) roundhouse kick (chuan ti) -
target head area on opponent

Jump front kick (Thiau chean chuai ti) - breaking through the target

Pinan Wu Duan (Pinan Form 5) leap before double block

Tim Eves ... jump side kick (thiau cher chuai ti)
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Meditation - Min Seang, at the end of the examination

The grading ended with the customary short meditation, to relax the body and mind.

All students performed well and enjoyed the day.

Tang Sou!

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