Kai’s Karate Graduations and Parade
 Kai’s graduation to blue belt
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 Kai’s graduation to green belt
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Kai’s been taking karate lessons 2-3 days a week for about 3 years now, at Mr. A’s karate school. Every time we go, he protests that he wants to stay home, but then he always has a great time when he gets there, and half the time doesn’t want to come home when the lesson is over. Back in September he graduated to blue belt, and then he quickly moved on to green belt in December. The videos above are from each graduation. Each graduate puts on a small demonstration. In September Kai did a “free form” demo (when the kids do free form demos, they can do whatever they want, which means they typically put on their best impersonation of Darth Maul). His demo elicited a collective gasp from the audience, when he discarded one of his weapons a little too spectacularly, flinging it into the seats (fortunately into an empty area, so no one got hurt). His performance in December was more subdued – he did a demo of one of the basic forms.
Below are pictures from the Haverford Township Day parade in October. Kai’s karate class marched in the parade. They periodically stopped along the route to do short demos for the audience, while the McCain campaign’s Straight Talk Express bus stalked closely behind us.
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Very nice.
Is that Shashin that is used for displaying the video? Or are you doing that another way?
Hi Mike – yes, I’m showing the videos through Shashin. You can use videos in Shashin tags just like you use photos. Shashin will automatically detect that it’s a video and handle it accordingly.