Amerah Baderah the Karate Queen

As many of you already know, Amerah studies martial arts... specifically Mu Duk Kwan Soo Bahk Do.  It's been neat to watch her progress, her instructor tells us that she has the best memory of any of the kids in her class... she just needs to focus a bit :-). 

As you can see, if you look at her belt, in Soo Bahk Do they go from a white belt to a white belt with one blue stripe.  The next step up is an orange belt.  So in the end of October Amerah went to test for her orange belt. 

 That's Amerah, third from left, in the back.  It was a much smaller test group than when she tested for her stripe (thank goodness!).

 

Amerah is again third from the left. It took just over a month for the paperwork to come back from headquarters.  When it did we had one happy little orange belt!

The following photos are of Amerah receiving her certificate and her belt... they're a bit fuzzy because I wasn't there and Dave was taking the pictures ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

She was so excited and put her all into that first class as an orange belt!  Dave got some pretty good action shots... Amerah is the blur in motion :-)

 

 

 Look at those jumps!  I'm so glad we got her into this!