By now it takes about a year between belt grades; gradings btw are traditionally on Sunday nights at a local sports centre way across town from where we live…
Normally, he is already quite serious, but tonight…
Nerves…
Student line-up… 
Relieved.
Epilogue… Hissa red belt now…
Some of the kids in the advanced class can even do back flips and things…
But this stage is cuter.
Sometimes older siblings get to sit in on the little kiddie classes…
But after that Rockstar’ll hiss, “Did you see that? She’s just mental!”
ps: Serious as he is about regular training though, Rockstar’s stopped competing in tournaments; partly because he’s gotten a little bigger since then. The events go by weight category, and while he just squeezed into the previous weight group (i.e. one of the older or bigger ones in his weight category – in which btw in the 3 fights he had at the last tournament he was the most junior belt), by now he would have grown into the next category… which means a high likelihood of older/ even more senior belted kids. I never knew little league-anything was that serious, but sometimes I look at all the little kids nowadays competing in various sports, and they’re really, really serious about winning ok… And well, Rockstar is famously… not. haha. <shrugs>
Congrats to Rockstar! What a stylish hairstyle he got there.
Miss Rockstar is so very cute! Can see from the photo where she was running about that she is so happy and excited. Good that she can keep still to follow the instructions. Mental! What a way to describe his sister. 😀
Umm… She doesn’t follow instructions that well… Usually cos she doesn’t listen that well, if she’s not arguing she’s dreaming or….. making fart sounds. Seriously. She’s the class clown 🙁