aes Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Well after taking about 3/4 of a year off of Tournaments, tomorrow I will be entering my first competition this year in Kata, Weapons and Kumite and boy am I nervous. I have a goal of winning the overall Canadian WFMA over 35 catagory this year and have trained pretty hard for this competition. In the long run I know my weapons and hand katas need to be more complex. My hand kata is Fukyugata Nidan but Pinan Godan will hopefully be ready for the next tourney. Well better get some sleep, up at 7am to get ready. 43 Years oldBlue Belt (7th Kyu) Shorin-ryuRoberts Karate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dijita Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Good luck!! Hope you have fun. Where's the tournement by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aes Posted April 24, 2004 Author Share Posted April 24, 2004 The tournament was in Elora Ontario, a pretty small town but a good sized tourney. Here are the results. Gold in Kumite Silver in Kata Silver in Weapons Both my daughter and I had a great time. 43 Years oldBlue Belt (7th Kyu) Shorin-ryuRoberts Karate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironberg Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Congratulations! Getting that first in sparring (Kumite) is all that's really mattered to me these days. "An enlightened man would offer a weary traveler a bed for the night, and invite him to share a civilized conversation over a bowl of... Cocoa Puffs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aefibird Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Congratulations on doing so well, aes! Glad you & your daughter had a great day. Good luck for your next tourney. "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dijita Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 That's awesome on your results, you must be really happy about that. So there was a tournement in Elora eh? Hehe, it's such a small place! What style of martial arts was the tournement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aes Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 Thanks people. I started Kumite training just under a year ago. I entered a Tourney with pretty much no training around the same time and got defeated very easily. Sure it was different people, but this time around it was a different story. Most of my sparring training has been done with much younger competitors. They have much faster reflexes than I do, however when I enter tournaments I wind up in the over 35 catagory. Is it possible that being used to faster moves has helped me get faster? Well the next tourney that I know of is in Ohio in the end of July. That should give me time to learn a new Advanced Kata. The Ohio one is supposed to be much bigger than the one I was just in as well. 43 Years oldBlue Belt (7th Kyu) Shorin-ryuRoberts Karate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramymensa Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 GREAT JOB. Impressive I could say. Enjoy your hard won medals And good luck in the next event. Guess you can be a champ even if over 40 World Shotokan Karate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aes Posted June 6, 2004 Author Share Posted June 6, 2004 Well had a tourney before the July one. Did ok. Dang the guy I beat pretty easily last time seems to have gotten wise to my combos and beat me this time. Gotta hit the heavy bag and work out some new moves. 43 Years oldBlue Belt (7th Kyu) Shorin-ryuRoberts Karate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Congradulations on winning that gold in kumite, and those silver medals aren't anything to ignore either. I hope you do well in your next tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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