Karate

Blake has been asking from the beginning of the year to do Karate. So when I saw the form that they were having classes held at the elementary school I jumped on it. Alex's heart is really with soccer, but he did say that he wanted to try it too. So we got both the boys uniforms and they started to learn their karate moves. Blake was so excited to be learning karate and was happy to be sparring with other kids, but karate just turned out not to be the thing for Alex. He hated going to karate every week and would all of a sudden come down with mysterious belly aches right before karate so that he wouldn't have to participate and they would miraculously go away when karate was done. I made him go to all of the classes except the last three(he got sick with strep) just so he would know that when you finish somehting you need to finish it.

Blake attended the mandatory tournament in order to move onto a yellow belt and won first place! We were so proud of him. In March he took his test and passed and was awarded his yellow belt. He is now back in karate and hopes to move onto an orange belt by the end of school and Alex is now in his element(soccer) and loving it.

Blake Sparring


Alex Sparring



Sit-ups


Receiving Yellow Belt


Looking at certificate