Here I am sparring [candid photo]
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Went to a tournament today. Got second. Lost to the bodan I am sparring in this photo (I'm the red belt). In this photo I believe I was bring up an axe kick but he got his leg over mine in time.
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2nd place and lost to an experienced black belt... Very respectable!!! Congratulations!2
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Did you have other matches? How did they go?1
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Nice!!!2
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Hah, it was just me and him, and just one round. Everyone else was a lower belt and got tossed in a different division.
It was a great match though. It was a 90 second match, and when they called "45 seconds" we both looked at eachother like, "whoa only half way?" lol.
Sparring is incredible. You can drop a day's worth of energy at the drop of a hat.1 -
Maybe the best part of the tournament, is that even though I put 40lbs back on, I still don't get treated like a "plus size" competitor anymore. During a conversation someone said something along the lines of, "we are all about the same size" and I was like, "wow"3
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I found another pic of me in their image dump
I was standing around helping hold for board breaking
Competitor is one of my younger classmates breaking a stack of 10 boards with a downward elbow strike.2 -
Good pic - and got to love demo boards.
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Congrats! You beat everyone else that didn't have the courage to compete!4
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Congrats on the competition! Going up against an experienced black belt, wow! I'm so, glad it went well overall.0
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It's not the first time I've sparred him
This is sort of a rematch from a year or so ago, only back then he was the red belt lol. You get a lot of familiar faces at tournaments because the TKD community is only "so big".
Just for fun, facebook "shared a memory" with me from two years ago, when I was just a fledgling orange belt. This was my first sparring match ever. My opponent is a 6'5 ex military guy. I still spar him every 3 months at belt tests.
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How did you feel after the competition? Were you glad you went through with it after all?0
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Of course! I love sparring!!
The only time I ever feel defeated is things like poomsae and board breaking. It's up to too much opinion. Sparring though is fun whether you win or lose (except that time I lost to a green belt... I swear I won. I was a little upset at the judges).
Next tournament is nov 11th in NYC. Time to double down on my training and undo all of this damage I had done to my body recently. I put on 50lbs... and it really does have an impact.1 -
I've had some matches where I was defeated by the judges calls too - VERY frustrating when it happens.
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Our intramurals also have a funny scoring system they made up on their own that has no relevance to olympic sparring.0
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I'm not a huge fan of the Olympic system myself - and the fact that they have flip-flopped on points so many times doesn't help either.0
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The current rule system is okay. Pushing is now allowed to avoid clinching. Clean punch 1 point, clean kick 2 points, head kick 3 points, and adding a spin to any kick adds a point.
At our intramural all kicks are one point no matter where they land, but for some very stupid reason, push kick does not count.0
