I passed my Tang Soo Do test for 3rd Gup (red belt)!

Now to go take a nap. They wore me out!

Only one more day until I test for my red belt (3rd Gup)... last night in class I asked if we could do practice breaks because it had been 17 years since I'd broken a board without it being part of a demolition/construction project. The instructors polled the class and there certainly was interest from others, so we set up for some breaks. I don't know why I was anxious about this part of my testing, because they had me go ahead and do 5 breaks - skip side kick (yi dan yup cha gi), roundhouse kick (dull ryo cha gi), backfist (kap kwan), reverse knife hand (yuk soo do) and jumping front kick (ya dan ahp cha gi). It was quite satisfying to break through without a problem, so now I just have to finalize what one-step methods (il soo sik) I plan on doing during the testing. If it was straight up one steps, that would be simple, because I am comfortable with more than the 5 required, but they will also do three punch one steps, and my footwork isn't quite what it needs to be on all of them to set myself up for the finishing moves. Oh, well. Maybe ware will show up to the 2600 Meeting tonight and I can beat up on him.