A Belt Test @ American Tiger Martial Arts and Fitness

I was at American Tiger Martial Arts and Fitness last October and took some photos of the students participating in the monthly belt test for that month.  

The test involved some white belts moving up to orange belt, all the way to a couple of red belts moving up to red-black belts (last test before their black belt for these guys).  These tests involve exercises, board-breaking, hand forms, weapon forms, and free-styling.
 

Board breaking using a stomp.

Jeannie in between exercises.

Performing a lesson that involves kicks from a sitting position.

Miss Azieh getting ready to assist a student with a dagger lesson.

Sai kata.

A Broadsword kata by Victor.

Jeannie staying out of the circle in her freestyle three-on-one test.

Victor and Mr Pollack (Instructor) mixing it up during one-on-one freestyle.

Board breaking with a left hooking heel.

Modesta's turn with her left hooking heel.

Dawson with a right hooking heel.

Victor going through that plywood with power and technique.

Goodbye Orange Belt, Hello Yellow Belt!

Technical Notes:  Gear used was a 5D with 24-70L and a 70-200 IS L.  Most of the images posted here were taken with the 70-200 at ISO 800-1000 and at f 3.5.  Not wanting to be a distraction with flash, all shots were with the ambient florescent lighting in the studio with white balance corrections made in Photoshop.