It always happens but it still comes as a surprise.  The test is over, you’ve passed, and ready to go again but things are not working. It is a struggle to stay focused and get motivated until it dawns on you: it’s natures way of telling you to take a break recover and rejuvenate so you can start working on it once more.  This is different from the plateau that occurs when you have been training for a while and you get to a pont where you just aren’t improving. This is the  ”why is this not working when it did two weeks ago”  and the year before that (with a few exceptions).

Wake up and smell the post-test let down.  So I’ll train a little less, do some things that I have put off while getting ready for the test and then wait for that little voice to tell me to get my butt to the dojo on a more regular basis and start on the next phase which is usually training hard to gain the test skills to make me feel that I deserve my new rank.

Just my thoughts.