held their annual awards ceremony last night.
Each elementary school that participates in the
program did a demonstration of a basic skill
and then the higher kyu students showed an
advanced version of the same skill. Afterwards,
the Senseis handed out medals to all of the students
that earned their greenbelt along with certificates
for the Most Improved Student, Best New Student
and Best Overall Student for each school. Much to
our surprise, Ian was give the Best Student award
for the Colinas Del Norte program! YAHOO! We
were all so excited and proud of him. Great job Ian!
Pardon the end of the video. As you will see, I am
still practicing the video function of our camera.
This is a clip of Ian demonstrating one of the
very basic maneuvers on how to defend yourself.
(by getting out of the way!) This is called Open Door.
Ian is receiving his medal from
Sensei Dale.
This is most of the Colinas Del Norte students.
There were about 5 or 6 that did not attend
the ceremony. You can see that almost all of
them received their greenbelts this year. (This
was the first year that CDNE participated in the
martial arts program.)
Ian and Sensei Debbie
4 comments:
Go Ian! That is a huge award to receive! We are so proud of you. I saw the word dojo on a Get Ed cartoon Isaac has been watching. (Are you proud of that Christy? that I let him watch that) Congrats!
Way to go, Ian! I have mastered a very important lesson of self defense-get away. I am so proud of you. Congratulations. Lue
Wow. What an accomplishment! You really have come a long way with your talent. We are super proud of you. There should be more kids like you that are so dedicated and gifted.
Love Aunt Jen
Great pictures, Ian! What an impressive accomplishment--we're proud of our Ian! :)
Love, Grammy & Pappa
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