I remember when I was about 13 years old testing for my 2nd Class Brown Belt. It was a group of us from Flores Bros. where I originally studied Kenpo under Sifu Jesus and Sifu Refugio Flores and a group of Mr. Rick Avery’s students.
The belt test was held at a park on top of a mountain in Goleta, California in the middle of June! Hot!! A 100 degree plus! We’re in black heavyweight gi. The test was tough and long! It always was!
You had to do everything from White Belt all the way up to the rank you’re testing for. All your Basics, Forms, Sets, Techniques (both sides, in the air and on a body), Spontaneous or Reaction Drills and Fighting! The last portion is questions and answers. Which the boards get to ask you questions on Kenpo. And you would answer.
Anyway, somewhere in there during the test Mr. Parker asked me to do Form 4. Which was my favorite form at the time and I’ve used it for competition successfully for many years. So I felt confident that I would do just fine in front of Mr. Parker even though I was so nervous and my knees were shaking the entire time!! LOL. So I did my salutations and blast out Form 4 as best as I could! Done and saluted out! And felt pretty good about my performance. So I thought!
Mr. Parker leaned forward from his chair and said, ‘Sibora, that’s was a good form. Very good form. But that was ’Long Form 3’! I asked you to do Form 4! NOW DO THE RIGHT FORM!’!!! I JUST DIED!!!
- but I did go back and did Form 4. And Mr. Parker gave me two thumbs up.
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