My time in Arnis de mano_2

I meet my instructor Roger Conos. And he is the head Instructor of arnis de vera at that time because our teacher is in the US. Our art focus mainly on knife fight, Single stick style. Corto or close quarter And we have three rankings.
1. Puti = White Belt in Other Style.
2. Luntian = Green Belt
3. Arnisador = Black
I trained for 5 months and the sir roger decided to test me with those other members actually that time frame in our art should not yet be tested but I try to show them that I can catch up and even do better than most of his older students and we tested.
The test composed of basic strikes and there blocks in real time no padding. And the last two parts is a stick combat, I had big lumps in my head after wards because I got hit in my forehead. After that we spar in Multiple attackers and I mean we don’t have kata style we fight real time my goodness! my hands after wards have lots of strikes in it, but it was worth it when they promoted me and pass the test. I trained and competed for a year and now focuses mainly in real combat applications of the art.