This tournament was very interesting to me and I learned a little bit here and there from unexpected sources, which is how life usually works. I personally want to congratulate Dan for relaxing and improving his kata greatly in just a couple hours and taking second in kata. The advice that I believe helped him the most, even though I'm sure Mr. Hughes had giving the same advices before, came from a lady who was a 60 something year old orange belt whom jokingly wanted to forever remain an orange belt. Her son and grandson, both purple belts, also competed. Her words where full of life and could of inspired a tired man to continue on for hours. These type of people inspire me to learn as much about life from all sources possible...
Even if you don't have the desire to actually compete these events are full of inspiration and well worth going to.
I'd also like to congratulate Jonathan for a job well done, he placed 2nd in forms by a very fine hair. I did the math after we got home and he only missed first by .01 points on the judges score card average.
I personally lost in sparring to two well deserving purple belts that had obviously been training very hard for this competetion and where in excellent physical condition for being 30 somethings.
I'm sorry to hear about the car accident and I hope everyone involved heals quickly.
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