Yesterday was one of the grading days for kendo players in NSW. 20 members from our club joined the grading. We started with signing up, followed by warming up till 9 am when grading officially began. From basic foot work to the demonstration of kendo kata, candidates completed different tasks that met their target grade.
今天是新州剑道的级位和段位审查会。我们社团有二十人参加了审查。我们进场签到以后，在九点审查会正式开始之前做了热身，以确保身体状态良好。在整场审查会中，考生们依照目标级别的不同被分配了不同的考试内容，从基本步法到基础打击技巧和常用训练内容，再到实战以及木刀测试。
Warming up together to get rid of sleepiness and chill!
Opening ceremony
Elva, Rachel, Victor and Fiona in kata demonstration… their additional practice of kata paid off, congratulations!
All our members achieved their goals from 6th kyu to 2nd dan. We also had several members who achieved double grading, and one even did a super awesome triple grading (sadly he was too shy to allow me to upload his handsome photo :(, but I guess I can show you in private ?)! Congratulations to all! With today’s outcome, let’s not forget to thank our coaches for their teaching and help in every training and on the day of grading.
我们社团所有参加审查的成员都通过了测试，分别得到了从6级到2段的新级别的称号。此外，还有不少成员因为优秀的表现连升两级，更有一位H姓成员达成了十分罕见的连升三级的成就！由于他本人谦逊低调，我在这里就不把他的照片放出来了……不过我猜你们看到这篇文章的时候基本都已经知道是谁了，就算这样也还想看照片的请私下联系我（斜眼.jpg）。在此恭喜大家考级考段成功，并且不要忘了感谢教练们在平日和考级当天的的教导与帮助，希望大家再接再厉！
Lastly, an Easter egg here! Below are some of our members in bogu in their grading. People all say, well actually, I say, people in one club for a good long time can easily tell which one is which by only watching their positions, so please take a guess of who they are in the following pictures to test my hypothesis!
最后一个小彩蛋！下面是一些我们的成员在考试过程中带着护具的照片。古(yin)人(hun)说得好，“角色就要画到让读者光看背影就知道他是谁才行”。我也觉得社团里大家彼此练习久了以后连姿势动作都很有辨识度，哪怕有护具也能分辨。为了验证我是不是对的，来猜一猜出来下面这些照片里的人都是谁吧!
