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Andy Earns his Advanced Red Belt ...

 

Andy Earns his Advanced Red Belt



Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01080

Andy has earned his Advanced Red Belt today. This means that he will be testing for his black belt next. I am not sure if he understands the gravity behind this. The good thing for me not earning mine on the first try is that I can do what I can to help Andy earn his in his own time. It may be in 6 months, it may be longer than that. He’ll get there but a lot of hard work has to happen first. Lots of additional training and practice to get to the level needed to earn that black belt.

Andy is with his instructor, Mr. Kyle. When Andy began, Mr. Kyle was an assistant and now he runs the classes for the advanced Karate Kids. We’ve been with ABD long enough to see Kyle make a lot of progress from an assistant to a full instructor. He’s very good with the kids. He’s patient with Andy, too. Andy has poses that he does with each of the instructors and assistant instructors. Mr. Zack is one of the assistants.

Andys Belts

He goes with a Piggy Back with Mr. Zack.

Andy got piggyback on my zach

Andy has a postcard that he got from Mr. Zack a couple of belts ago. He keeps it tucked into his belt display rack.

andy and mr brochu

Andy always has Mr. Brochu pick him up by his feet and dangle him. He’s getting a lot bigger than when Mr. Brochu started doing this with Andy.
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