Hello everyone

Last night at ju jitsu, sensei said that Sam and i are going to attempt our first grading next monday(july5th).We are very nervous as we watched some students attempt grading this week,and they all failed?and they have all been going longer than us.The good thing is that we have a clear idea(written sylabus,is that right) of what we have to do, ie

20 press ups
20 sit ups
20 squat thrusts
all one after the other then
Ukemiwaza(breakfalls) hands and toes back
front roll side left and right
Throws
osotogeri-rear leg sweep
ogoshi-major hip
then apply two throws to a self defence situation
punches
junzuki, gyakuzuki,urazuki
kicks
maegeri,mawashigeri,yokogeri
weapons
nunchuku forms 1 and 2
written thesis(names of basic throws etc)

We will let u know how we get on
Victoria

Good luck guys :thumbwink:


Mick

Let us know how you go.
GOOD LUCK!!!

Yarr, good luck!

Woah sounds much harder than karate first grading!

Pretty sad, huh?

sounds like you need a ton more strength and fitness for ju jitsu then karate! i dont think i could manage the first grading for ju jitzu lol

Actually not. The major factors in jujutsu techniques are balance, positioning and leverage.

And this grading format is IMO easier as you know exactly what they're looking at.


Mick

But isn't a GKR grading just as easy then? You know what they're looking for because it's basicall the same in every GKR grading. Good technique in moves, good standard for grade kata and all others before it, and able to last in sparring.

Viccles

sounds like you need a ton more strength and fitness for ju jitsu then karate! i dont think i could manage the first grading for ju jitzu lol .


Mick is right in what he says, sam is knee high to a grasshopper, and he manages to throw people a lot taller and heavier.For a first grading i think the sylabus is pretty tough, but then i look at the standard of the students, and i know that its good that its tough, they will not be given a grade, they will have to earn it. not to sure if the kids will pass? but we will find out soon.
nigel

What a let down the grading was cancelled at the 11th hour, due to unforseen circumstances? and will be resheduled shortly? still it buys us some more practise time,it feels a bit of an anti climax after having a great weekend competing at two GKR tournys.Will keep you posted of the resheduled date.
Nigel

YO!
Sam here
well sensei finally took a grading last nite, 3 of us were up for our first grade, I was up first,why do they always pick on the little guy first
Then a teenager called jack, then victoria,we all had to do the sylabus described before 1 at a time,at the end we were sent back to join the rest of the class
At the end of class it was announced, that my sister and i had passed our first grading :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :: :woohoo: :woohoo: :wo: :woohoo: :: It was a really hard grading for a first belt, i cant see that we will ever get to b belt in this style, just the the start is a knightmare, 100 pressups, 100 situps,100 squat thrusts,
We have our first grade in jujitsu and kobudo sorry im excited.
Jack didnt make the grade,but he gets another chance in a couple of weeks,we went through the grading with him after, i think victoria has a soft spot for him they kinda sneaked off in a corner lol.
Any way did i tell you, we are graded belts in jujitsu and kobudo
Sam

Excellent! Well done Sam & Victoria :thumbwink: :thumbgrin: :woohoo:


Mick

ah mick...

i hope that's cola in those glasses you got there...

well done victoria and sam
and awsome effort

Ive heard how hard those gradings are. well done

Woo hoo!!!! Go Victoria and Sam!!!! Well done! Gosh, I don't know how you can do 100 sit ups! I can barely do 5!

Gets ready for push ups......1, 2, 3....rest....4....rest 5, 6, 7 8 9..rest..10..rests some more......leaves the other 90 for Sam to complete...well done guys... :thumbwink:

Nup it's beer... for Mr & Mrs TMW who drives them around everywhere :thumbwink:


Mick

Congratulations to you both.
A fine achievement.

(I like Trickys idea of pushups....thanks Sam )

We are on a roll, after grading to 2nd kyu in gkr and 3rd gup in tang soo do, a few weeks ago, we were graded to 8th kyu in jujitsu and kobudo this week.
Sam

Hey congrats to you both! You are certainly on your way to becoming well rounded martial artists!
Heck I dont know how you guys (or dad especially) handle it!.
3 styles at onces is a pretty big ask.

thats excellent...
i was supposed to be going to a ju jitsu class on monday 1st november
cant make it though as i teach a gkr class that night

bit of a shame
maybe another day

congrats on your achievements both of you...

Thank you mat, but really we do 5 styles within 3, ie GKR
Tang soo do and freestyle
Ju jitsu and kobudo
We are giving it some serious thought," again" about moving on from GKR as we feel that our ju jitsu sensei is maybe what we have been looking for ie sensei and mentor, he also teaches wado ryu, we have been asessed and can keep our gkr grade, but wont be graded until we learn the sylabus up to the next grade, which of course is very fair, its a very hard decision, we know our dad thinks we should leave, but we do love the gkr style and have so many friends all over the country, i know we can stay in touch but it wont be the same.martial arts wise i think maybe its right to move on, we dont know what to do, he he sam says we can just add wado ryu to what we do, but dad says it will be too much and we may get confused, plus its the financial side, apparently our ju jitsu sensei has good lineage?? dad will let us do whatever we want, but he is nearly always right about things, arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. still dont know!
Vicki

It all depends what you want. If you do karate for the social side and a bit of fun then stick with GKR. But if you want to keep learning, apart from the occasional new kata, you need to look elsewhere.

My $0.02 (about £0.008)

Mick

Not to mention you have a standing invite to a wednesday class...

was going to show up last night actually...

but i was too exhausted, sorry mick
maybe one day soon...

plus, i have nothing to wear

Not to hijack the thread but.. every 2nd week we play with sticks so bear that in mind when one day comes



Ooh I can't answer that one cos there's kids who read the forum



Mick

Susan
have you been to the ju jitsu class yet? or maybe even that wed class its fun to play with the sticks .

no i never got to make it
as i used to teach a gkr class on the nights it was on

and i never got to train in any of micks classes, but i did get to see one (no sticks but)

i have my own chance to play with sticks and other metal type objects though

Hmm thinking perhaps a general invite for all to the Kitsunekan dojo for when W16 and Numee come over... who'd be interested?


Mick

I will be there with bells on...

we doing morris dancing??

Me! Though, I'd have to first shrink myself, and hide in someones luggage..

oh well, maybe next time

I just got an email from virgin about airfare specials. There's some very cheap fares from Canberra to Perth...


Mick

How cheap's cheap?

LOL. Irrational urge to spend money to travel thousand of km's just to join this class..

I'd better behave or John will have me on house arrest or something

Less than $150 I think

accommodation available...

Yeah but um... I dont think the wedding can be moved to Perth so suddenly... and John might get upset if she doesn't show.

Damm that logic Numee!!!

You should have all picked another month to go over and meet up

There will be a next time, right?

I was thinking that... I suppose it depends how impressive the Sand Gropers are...
Next time but, we should start planning (and saving money) 12 months in advance so more people have a chance to join the party.

At the risk of being presumptuous (panadeine forte and guinness will do that to a man..) maybe this could tie in with Boz's aforethreatened visit....

Unless it is a top secret visit and he plans for us to guess? Would be really, really cool.

Care to send a flyer out?

Man, I hate guinness.

Vicki and i spent this weekend away with the ju jitsu club at a holiday camp, for a bonding training fun weekend.We trained hard, and had competitions and generally had a good time, there were about 30 of us students there for the weekend.Vicki won the kata competition, and i graded to my 8th kyu yellow belt .
We have got a bit confused with our gradings because i though this was my 7th kyu as it is my 3rd grading in ju jitsu, but no we start by grading to 10th kyu, does anybody know of any other style that starts by grading at 10th kyu, i thought that as soon as you joined a club you were a 10th kyu lol.
I suppose different clubs do things differently, i have asked a few people and they all say there first grading was for 9th kyu, just wondered what everyone else does?

Sam

Hi Sam-san

It depends on the club mate. Some start at 10th kyu however, I know several clubs styles that start at 5th kyu. It's all the same at the end of the day, most of them take about the same amount of time to grade to shodan - 3 years (training 2-3 times a week)

Big

Thank you Big
Sam

My TKD mob interview you first and discuss the club/style/etc etc...part of the interview is a brief lesson in basics and dojang ettiquette, after that they have a quick test to see if you remembered and award you 10th kyu...I guess its part enthusiasm builder and part marketing ploy and fair enough. Personally havent heard of any other 10th kyu gradings out here...

The kung fu club i attend doesnt use number grades in levels like that...
there arent even ten levels to go through.

BUT you do start out as a "no grade" and after 8 classes you do a 'grading' to gain the first level. since your first grade is "gold" i guess you can say you start out as a white belt (but you have no belt) then the first is like you yellow tip grading...

there are only 8 levels including black so you grade 8 times all up...

I have heard of a few clubs that do that, ranging from awarding 10th kyu once you've learnt a few basic etiquette type things like when to bow and how to tie the belt through to making it a grading like all the others. And the associated costs range from nothing to charging on the same scale as other gradings. Like there's not already enough grade levels!


Mick