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Purple Belt Test

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 On March 20th, 2024 I took my Purple Belt Test.   Here are some pictures:                                                              Here I broke 4 boards with a spinning back kick.  Took 4 tries.  I felt very much ready for this test, and while I saw improvement, I feel as if my improvement wasn't as significate as it could have been.  This is my lessons learnt:  1.  I was dedicated to doing particular stretches (sitting leg stretch, touch toes, butterfly stretch), but I need to expand my number of stretches.  Want to add one legged swat stretch, lunge stretch, front and side splits).   2. I need to spend more time working on my 1 step sparring.   My kicks were rushed and not very good.  Want to work on quality of the movements, whi...