Upon reaching, I started to sense nervous attack slowly surfaced for no obvious reason, I mean why should I? I am not taking any test... then I realise I'm nervous for Jun Wen. At the instance I tried to convince myself that I shouldn't be too worry as I has been coaching him for months already ie. do poomsae and punching bag practive everyday, however, he got one weakness that was not trained i.e. his soft spot in pain.
You see, once a kid start weeping during sparring he lost focus and that is dangerous as he might get K.O. by the opponent. As a referre you might want to consider stopping the match for safety reason.
I too can sense he is nervous too, even though he said he is 'OK'. I decided to go through with him the poomsae 8, 5 and 3. Not long all the testees fall in for warm up session and then breifing by the tester.
Soon his group was up for poomsae display. Being the first and with a small crowd of testees, examiner tend to more stringent and critics about everything. The group did Taegeuk 8 x 2 times, Taegeuk 5 x 2 times (1 boy did 4 times) and Taegeuk 1 time (1 boy did 2 times). For Junwen poomsae is easy, was a bit nervous at the start (miss out a step) but the rest he did it like normal practice, good job!
Next test will be sparring, 1st round Junwen verus a girl who is much taller. She is quick and kick non-stop. Jun Wen did good and also he is confidence, may be from the bag kicking training or may be also most boys at his age dislike girl. He got better skill and tactic that he manage to stop her advance several time.
2nd round is his best match where he is against a boy of his age, height & size. see video, his position is on the left.
The third round is against a India boy from VS TKD, who is slightly taller. This is going to be a tough round for Junwen as his fatigue is showing. My worst worry happen when he start tearing when both their in-step crash hard in mid of kicks exchange but I manage to subpress his emotion, well guess I did the right thing by volunteering as the referre.
Then the last phase of the test - Destruction. Only for senior poom and above. Junior poom become helper. Too bad if not it will be fun for Jun Wen him b'cos back-thrust for him is chicken feet.
Event end about 12.35 pm and on our way home, he agreed with me that by not crying, it completes this event in a positive manner.
Pew... a stone off my chest, a father chest.
Manage to collect my Dan cert, referre cert not ready... sianz.
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