Richard

Hi SaifightsMs! I'm feeling fine now. I've become a much better kumitefighter now. My hand is still not 100% ok but it will be soon. By the way...I won my club-championship in kumite which I'm pretty proud over cause we are about 150 members in the club. So now I finally have a trophy! I'm not going to compete anymore for the rest of the year, cause I have to train the basics so I can get my orange belt. But next year I'm gonna compete alot.

Yepp! I've been improving my kicks a lot since a posted my problem! It was the recoil of the leg that I had problem with, but now noboby takes a grab of my leg. I wanna thank you all for the help!

Ooops! I forgot the white belt...sorry.

In our club we have these belts. I train Shotokan karate in Sweden. Yellow Orange Green Blue 2 degrees of Purple 2 Degrees of Brown Black

Thank's Kickbutt! Now i'm starting to feel a little better... My hand has started to heal now so I can probably go back to training next week. And your'e right, I really learned a lot!

Hmm...the tournament went......not good! I fought six matches and lost 5 and won 1. I got hurt in the first match when I fought a big blackbelt-guy. He did a very hard low kick on my left leg so I couldn't kick with it anymore. I was really surprise how hard I had to hit to score! The referee always denied me points by saying: - "To soft, to weak, not hard enogh." all the time. It was really close to fullcontact karate. The last match I thought I was about to win. I was leading with 7 points to 0 when it was 20 seconds left. Then my opponent kicked on my hand and because of the pain I had to give up. I'm going to the doctor today because it still hurts like hell! Well, I guess I really learned something. Now I'm gonna train even harder and harder and HARDER! I'll be back!

To jamesdasher: Tomorrow i will compete for the first time. I'm gonna go 3 matches in kumite teamfight. I promise to tell u how it went. (Starting to get a little nervous right now..... See ya!

Thanks guys! I will try walking barefoot a little more often. Good tip! Thanks

When we have free fight in my class, i often suffer from blisters underneath my foot. What can i do to prevent this? (We are not allowed to wear shoes in the dojo). This has becoming a great deal of a problem for me cause i sometimes have to skip training because my feet hurting.....

My short term goal is to be sucessfull in competitions. And my long term goal is to be a black belt holder....yepp that's it i guess.

To Kickbutt: Wow! I'm impressed that you know swedish! Thanks! (or "Tack ska du ha!)

Great idea guys!!!

Hi Jack! Can you upload them to a place and give me a link?

Hi! My name is Richard and I am 27 years old. I've been training Shotokan Karate about a year now. I live i Kalmar which is at town in Sweden. I have just discoverd the fun in free sparring and is about to compete for the first time the 8 september.

Hi! Do U know any good places to look for avi and mpegs? Especially clips from tournaments end competitions.