He missed a grading sometime back because we had to travel; been really itching to get that belt eva since…
There’s no mistaking the pleased look on Rockstar’s face…
Kings scheduled an earlier flight so he could get back in time to bring us all to grading…
And by “everyone” we include little well-dressed kicking pad-bearing assistants…
Who deigned to give him back his kicking pad only when she deemed it absolutely necessary… (Cuddles were extra)…
As are pats on the back…
And so it were a good Sunday, as we ride off into the sunset…
Still loving the chance to drive home the whole all-that-hard-work-pays-off message as well as the one involving “discipline”; all that ninjago and jedi stuff Rockstar and friends get taken up with, martial arts is still a great way to explain how if you don’t follow instructions well enough you’re going to fail or maybe be barred from the next grading…
And….. it’s 10pm and Rockstar is still wearing his new shin and forearm guards under his pajamas.
ps: The youngest Green belt-and-up we know is a good full year younger than he is, thereby making him the youngest or near-youngest in P1 at the same school (his mum had a pretty good brainwave to start him young, seeing as he would be one of the youngest in his year, I remember thinking when she told me how I wished I’d thought of that too… Earning his Green early must’ve helped a lot with the boy’s confidence when he started P1 on the youngish side just as Rockstar did…) Oh, and Rockstar also has a Green-Blue belted classmate at school who will be going for Blue soon and who is therefore to him the coolest girl he knows. Yes – an actual GIRL 😀
Congrats Rockstar! I see Miss Rockstar wearing a shade of green to support her ko ko.
Thanks! The dress was a lucky coincidence though