November 2013 Black Belt Grading

On November 28th, 2013, three of my top students were promoted to a higher degree of Black Belt. John McDonald was promoted to 3rd Degree Black Belt (Head Instructor) in American Kenpo, and Evan Wiley and Matt Trejo became the first two students I have ever promoted to 4th Degree Black Belt (Senior Instructor).

For their testing, each of the candidates performed Long Form 5 and 6, and Evan and Matt also did Long Form 7. In addition, all three candidates demonstrated many street self-defense techniques on each other, and all of them had to fight in full-contact stand-up, including an individual match with myself.

In my view, these three black belts carry the Kenpo flame with passion, and are three of the top black belts in American Kenpo in Canada.