Got back from my son's karate awards dinner tonight. He had testing for his conditional black belt Friday and Saturday. He passed!!

He will likely have his Certified Black Belt in about 6 months.
I am so damn proud of him!!

He's worked his ass off. In addition to all the normal practices he has (approx 2 hours twice a week), the last two months he had to do an additional Preparation class. He's been doing about 10 hours of karate per week for two months! For testing this weekend, he had 5.5 hours on Friday and another 4.5 hours on Saturday. Just on Saturday, he did well over 400 pushups. Not bad for a 12 year old!