Vovinam’s higher level belt exam was held this past Sunday at Vovinam Hoa Lu Center. Last time I test was like 5 years ago! And after all these injuries and setbacks, one could really tell how out of shape I was. To make things worse, the night before I was practicing the sword fight with Long and he cut up my fingers pretty deep with that newly made aluminum bladed sword. Afterwards, I went out to VTT to practice sparring with my cousin. I wasn’t wearing my Vovinam jacket so the rope from the chest guard cut into my skin. I also fell down and slammed my elbow into some rocks. Once I got home, my mom freaked out cause I was bleeding everywhere.

Then that Sunday morning, I forgot to print out my essay which I took forever to write since I was trying to not include personal references which may spark a fire with those who read it. =(

First thing tested on was the Kata forms. I started out good, but by half way through, I was huffing and puffing like crazzzy. Master Doan subtly (not really) brought that up at the end of the exam.

Sword form was pretty good. Sword kept on bending though…

Leg techniques were horrible, but the pictures from it are hilarious.

a wet one for him to take a whif

pelvic thrust his face!

Sparred against Tom and got owned. Wrestled against Dung and got my arm popped out of its socket and sat on. Great… =)

Long did okay. Anh Hai owned at sparring. Bebi (am I spelling her name correctly?) was pretty good.

Her dual form was awesome.