Orange belt testing

Today, Morgan had her orange belt testing. This is more involved than the last belts. She had to do an exam (luckily it was a take-home test this time) and write an essay about her favorite part of karate. They started off with some warm up exercises - 100 jumping jacks, 35 pushups, 80 sit-ups. They had four stations: forms, kicks, hands (blocks/punches), techniques. The higher belts get to spar at the end, but Morgan's level does not spar yet. And the last thing they get to do it break a board. Each level breaks it a different way. The lower belts first try to kick and break the board. If they can't, they move on to chop the board by hand or break it by stomping on it. This is what they do in class, too. Morgan had not been able to kick the board and break it before today. She was really excited to get it on her second try today!