Last Saturday my organization held an invitational tournament, and we were short some black belts for various reasons. Since I just ranked up to the highest level of brown, they had me help out judging kata in the men's yellow and orange belt division.
It was quite nerve-wracking, but I think I did pretty well. My scores were in line with the black belt judges most of the time (except with the one guy whose face was only visible to me when he completely lost focus and got that "Oh, cr#p! What's the next move?!?" look on his face twice). It was also a little tense when I was trying to prepare and show my scores and people kept interrupting me to tell me my kata division was running and I needed to get over there to compete. I wound up running across the gym and doing my form without any warmup, then winning first.
All in all, a very good day--and a great learning experience.
It was quite nerve-wracking, but I think I did pretty well. My scores were in line with the black belt judges most of the time (except with the one guy whose face was only visible to me when he completely lost focus and got that "Oh, cr#p! What's the next move?!?" look on his face twice). It was also a little tense when I was trying to prepare and show my scores and people kept interrupting me to tell me my kata division was running and I needed to get over there to compete. I wound up running across the gym and doing my form without any warmup, then winning first.
All in all, a very good day--and a great learning experience.