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Nocturne

Vanessa Lowe

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The black belt test at Studio Naga is a 48-hour ordeal with no sleep. By the second night, students are running on pure adrenaline when they arrive to an unknown location blindfolded in the dark. Then, it's time to fight.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, this is Nokter.
0:05.0	It's notter.
0:07.0	It's about 1145 on a Friday night.
0:18.3	There are probably around 20 or 30 people here at this point.
0:22.1	It's a large studio room with a wood floor, one wall is brick.
0:27.2	There are lit candles and sacred objects.
0:31.1	There's a small table with some fruit and a bowl, people milling about in martial arts, clothing, and some nervous children getting ready and some spectators.
0:47.0	I'm at a martial art school called Studio Naga.
0:50.0	The art they teach is called Pukalan Shimindi Tulin.
0:53.2	This is night one of a 48 hour black belt test.
0:57.2	This is Ben.
0:58.2	How are you feeling?
0:59.2	A little nervous.
1:01.2	It's a new experience.
1:03.0	Can you see your name?
1:05.0	Cali.
1:06.0	How are you feeling?
1:07.0	I'm pretty nervous, but I think overall I feel more excited than nervous.
1:11.0	What's the preparation been like for this? Well I've been
1:14.7	preparing for about three months now. I've been doing trying to run every day
1:18.2	which is really hard because I'm also in school. I've been trying to come to
1:22.2	two or three classes a week just to prepare for my standards and everything.
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