Black Belt Testing - Day Two

Today was amazing, even though i had to wake up at 7:00AM for the 2nd day in a row on my weekend it was well worth it. Today was day two of the black belt test for the people going for 2nd degree and higher, among the testees was Mr. Cole, Mr. Boutin, Mr. Pulsone, Sensei Tiano, and Sensei Thivierge. I was picked up at my house at 8:00AM by Dan and we headed out into rahobeth to meet up with the rest of the crew, Once at Dunkin Donuts we got organized and headed out for the test site - a 30 minute drive lead us into Barington Rhode Island and the test began. We took up positions in the woods along a 1 mile path that rode along side a lake, Station One was what we came to call the hill an intense drill involving going up and down a hill while avoiding being dragged down the hill or into the lake itself. Station Two was gun defense where they were violently attacked with people with fake guns but the realism was still there. Station Three was the bridge - you crossed a 2 foot bridge over a river and at the other side was someone there waiting to test your knowledge of the chokes defenses. Station Four was stick defense where a group of people rushed in and basically beat you with sticks if you failed to defend yourself. Fifth was knife defense where again another group of people battered you with quick knifes and you were forced to defend yourself. And finally the last station (which you had to sprint too) was a cardio station and you had to do a series of jumps and push ups over obstacles and such. My job through this portion of the test was filming, so with my luck i had to run with everyone else through all the stations to get the footage so in total i ran this corse 3 times. After we finished filming and this test (3 hours later) we mounted back into the cars and shipped the instructors to there final leg of there test - we headed out to Tim Goulets Martial Arts School for Ultimate Fighting. Tim a once professional fighter now trains fighters to compete nationally and professionally. Our instructors were pretty much beat by tim and his extreme excersises and fighting. Once exercise included being strapped to a tire and running the length of his school (which was pretty large) After running the length 6 times they had to do it once more but adding punches to pads chasing tim. And to add even more they had to do three 5 minute fights. Crazy Stuff. I just finished uploading the footage, took over 3 hours. psh. I'm Heading to bed!! IM BEAT