Millies' White Grading

Jonathan Purton
Sep 29, 2018
2 min read

The first of our Evesham to take the new White grade examination was Millie,

The club Grades individuals we don't wait until many are ready for a grading as we need to examine the student much deeper and see how they perform under the pressure of the whole class watching on.

As with many teenagers Millie does suffer from bouts of self doubt and is easily influenced by others into working less hard than she would be happy with, She feels the pressure deeply of her family wanting her to succeed and want's nothing else but to make them proud. Yet the noise from the TV, social media and the music industry makes it very hard for her to understand on a deep level what she is meant to do.

This means we needed to wait for the right moment, and it was lesson 2 on the 27th of November was D day for Millie.

A really great first hour partnered with new student Simon had her running through basic striking, climbing and trapping.

Simon left on the Second hour and I took over and the grading got more serious. We moved into the realms of real encounters and role play.

Her scenario was to defend herself through a bad guy trying to take her to a secondary location.

He attitude could not have been more fitting to a Fit2Fight Student. The first time we tried the drill there was no doubt that she had a fear spike, however she applied the frame (barrier) and stopped me from grabbing her, then stopped for a spit second and then pushed me away and ran.

I asked her what she was thinking when she "Froze" She said "I had to pull my self back from the situation to stop myself from really hurting you" "There's no doubt I would have kicked you as hard as I could and scraped your eye's out if I was in that situation"

All I could do was applaud - I really couldn't ask for a better attitude than that.

After running the scenario a few more times and having a break and coming back to it again, she had conquered the moment of fear and was thinking much more clearly and performed with attitude and technical proficiency that left her instructor not only battered and bruised but immensely proud.

I'll be awarding Millie her white grade next week.

Well done Millie a great performance.