Another Proud Karate Ka moment

OK, so the little guy did his third belt grading.  

His grading was on a normal class day.

 The big boy helped out,

 He passed and is now an orange belt (orange? really)

 His grader giving him a wee pep talk.

 So...a couple of days later, they had another grading and all my black belts helped out.

We were sent a text message a couple of weeks before saying that Quinn was going to get a special award after the grading.
  He actually got two, first was an award of appreciation for all his help over the last 3 years with the junior class.

 He also got promoted to the rank of Sempai, teacher.  Part of his first Dan is a new uniform, he now wears a black gi with a red collar.  When he gets his second dan, the gi will also have red sleeves.

To denote his teaching level, this gi has a red stripe on the trousers.  This is a pretty huge deal for a kid of 14.

 Kyoshi giving him his gi.

 

 

Ceremonial donning of the top.

The certificate.

There was one other person promoted in his grade (a young girl, not this guy but he was promoted too)

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At the end of the ceremony, one of the mother of a young boy approached us and congratulated us  on raring such a fine boy.  We are very proud of him.  Sorry for the crappy photos..had to use the phone on some of them.