Info concerning BlackBelt Test posted
May 18th:
Saturday May 17th proved to be a good
day in CSK history books and a GREAT day
for (6) students who tested.
Congratulations goes out to: Jessica
Goldyn,Shalynn Atkins,Tommy Addesso,Kent
Vensland all of them PASSED the 6
Hour and a half test for their 1st
degree BlackBelts. Also (2) others
furthered their rank: Michael
Davenport,Josh Federico, these two
became 2nd Degree BlackBelts. For four
of them, the journey begins and for two
more the journey continues. There will
be more write ups later in the week.
More on Blackbelt Test posted May 19th:
More on the BlackBelt test from this
past Sat. May 17th 2008. It
started at 12pm with a 2 mile run, 200
pushups and then 300 crunches.
That's all before the test started.
At 1pm they started the technical
portion of the test. That lasted until
2:30pm, then the combinations up and
down the floor which pushed their Will
and Heart with grueling conditioning.
At about 3:15pm they started the ground
submission of which each student had to
go (10) rounds. At the end of that
test it was around 3:45pm. Then they
geared up for the last part of the test.
TEN rounds of Kickboxing with different
fighters each time, with some
instructors some other students testing
along with them. In the end it was
5:30pm and at that time the judges all
(10) of them along with (4) sit in part
time Judges) had to go up stairs to
decide the students fate. At
6:30pm the verdict was in. All (4)
2nd degree Brown belts had PASSED the
test for their 1st degree BlackBelts and
(2) more BlackBelts PASSED their 2nd
degree BlackBelt test. In all, (6)
students PASSED their grueling test and
Team Smith (CSK) had four new BlackBelts
and two higher ranked Blackbelts.
Congratulations to all of them on their
goal setting achievements. Below
are names and degrees of rank of each
student.
Jessica Goldyn 1st degree Blackbelt
Shalynn Atkins 1st degree Blackbelt
Tommy Addesso 1st degree Blackbelt
Kent Vensland 1st degree Blackbelt
Josh Federico 2nd degree Blackbelt
Michael Davenport 2nd degree Blackbelt
