1996.
I was only supposed to be watching the big Zen Do Kai gradings being held in Wellington at the (now) TSB arena.
But people had other plans.
After being there for an hour or so I was approached by one of the senior Black Belts from Aussie and he informed me that a decision had been made by the hierarchy that I was doing my 4th dan grading, that day, on 2 hours notice!
I had 2 hours to organise a complex choreographed performance involving arm flapping (kata) and arm flapping (kata) with weapons!
Fuck me.. stress much?
As soon as I had smashed the surprise 4th Dan grading Bob Jones (founder of Zen Do Kai) called up a couple of other people and promoted them. He then announced that one of them (Robert Tier) had been training for a few hours and would be preforming his 5th Dan grading on the spot, with only 3 hours training!!
But then...
I was called forward and given 10 minutes to complete the same task...
10 minutes.. to prep for a grading..
This is the video from that day...
Негізгі бет 1996 4th Dan and 5th Dan back to back on the spot surprise Grading
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