Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Grading, Grading, Grading

The year is coming to an end and I am trying to finish all the grading before the year end. The will be a few more grading to go for all classes. There's going to be one grading this saturday follow by another middle of next month and the final one on the last day of class. So meanwhile, I will be busy preparing them for these grading.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Grading Venue

All this while Sunway Lagoon Club has been playing host for the ceentralized grading everytime due to the most number of students from the club are involve in the grading and also the generousity of the club's management. However, this time around the management has change their mind in providing the venue for the grading as they feel the number of students training at the club are not so great as to some complaints by the members who do not get to use the hall.

The club is not able to provide the hall for the grading and give us an alternative venue which is the function room that is smaller than the hall. My inspection of the room tells me that only those who are involve are to be in the room while those who are waiting have to be outside the room. Also, I was told that the management wanted to charge us. Anyway, I shall be at the club to negotiate this as I have been supporting the club in their activities by sponsoring monetary and material requested by them. The club have to show their support to their activities they are offering.

The worst scenario is that we'll be using my training hall for the grading which of course will be even much smaller. This I feel will reflect badly to the club. If they do not care about this then there is nothing much I can do about it.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Grading

On the 15 November will be the last centralized grading of the year and up to today, my students preparation is going well. Majority of them are around 80% ready for the grading while there are a few who still need to have more training. We have been doing free sparring more this time around as I have prepare their poomsae much earlier. However, for these two weeks we will be doing trial grading, having them to perform every components required for the grading and asess them from there.

The selection will be done this week and the grading will be on next week. We hope that the students do their own training and make our life a bit easier. We only can tell if they do practice and train this week.

One More Week

Next week will be the MAP competition and up to today, we still having some issues with the school on the program. The classes today had been cancelled as the students were away for a school trip and we were not informed about it. The competition is next week and there are certain things that we a=have yet to finalized with the students. With the situation now, we just have to do with it and deal with it.