Heading for 3rd degree...

I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of Relyssa and her Karate years. I'm not sure at the moment how old she was when she started...But you can see from the first picture that she wasn't very old...10? Ryan wanted to take classes, and Relyssa wasn't about to be left behind! Ryan quit sometime after he reached green ranks, but Relyssa continued. She has totally paid for her classes, uniforms & testing herself, first from a paper route, and now from doing student teaching at the school with lower ranking students. She's been on the Demo team since a little before she got her 1st. black belt. The demo team is made up of a few of the best students, and they preform at different events/functions here in town, and sometimes other places, along with all the Martial arts schools graduations. She's competed 2 years at Lincoln's Cornhusker games, bringing home gold medals. She turned 16 in Oct 07.

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Saturday we went to watch the graduation for the Martial arts students where Relyssa attends. She just completed the 2nd testing out of 3 for what she has to do to get her 3rd degree black belt. The final testing will be in May, and hopefully by that graduation, I will have my new camera!! Anyway I thought it would be fun to include some pictures here of the graduation students, classes & instructors. Relyssa is part of the "demo" team that preforms at the graduations & other events to promote the school, and it is so much fun to watch this group. They are excellent. Hopefully another time I can include a video of them. It's incredible!