It was an opportunity to see the results of Nolan's hard work. The students are tested on their form and then do some sparring.
When the belt advancements were given, Nolan's sensei had some comments. Nolan's turn came with two of the other students and David mentioned that each of these particular students were at the dojo consistently and showed a lot of promise. Each one of them had recently competed at the Battle of Maine Martial Arts Championship. Nolan had decided the day of the competition to fight in the full contact match. He has a 3rd degree yellow belt in karate and only a white belt with one stripe in jiu jitsu. His sensei said that his opponent had a brown belt in both of those martial arts and yet, Nolan almost defeated him. How could a parent not feel a little bit of pride after hearing that?
Even more so when Nolan's new belt was given to him and he had skipped three belt levels to receive his blue one. His sensei had only seen one other person accomplish that. Nolan quietly asked, "Who was that?" and David laughed as he said, "That was me."
Well done, Nolan!
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Whoop Whoop! Way to go Nolan!!!
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