Everyone was in pretty good spirits after a weekend of tournament. We had relatively good placement for all our players, but most notably was Daniel Sensei picking up first place for weapons. Reed Sensei might have picked up first place for sparring, but some bureaucratic snafu got him skipped in one of his classes. However, second place was pretty good I think.
Mark visited a tournament that was fairly local run by the head of Yoshida teriyaki sauce. I guess it's pretty spectacular. They fly folks in from Okinawa to run the seminars and the have the top competitors from all over the world come to compete. There is even money to be won!
I've got 44 days until we go through our confirmation up in Yakima. Naturally, I want to be the best I can, but I find it very tough to really fine tune a lot of what we are doing. This is a problem because I don't want to be so burned out on the work that I can't pay attention to detail, but keeping it fresh is tough.
To this end Reed gives us small challenges to keep us in the moment. Last night it was to count how many times we had a heart guard in one of our katas and then to rate each other on how correctly we are doing it. I count six, but I'm unsure how well I'm doing it. Wednesday, Mark will judge me and we'll find out.
Reed said that we were pretty much ready to go, but the month will be all about being as best as we can. Correcting this and that, but the biggest change is how I do the kata now. One; one-two, pause. Giving the kata proper and/or dramatic timing to show control and power. I so used to just running through it. This gives it a fresh take.
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A week off and post cold I was pretty washed out during the first half hour of class. After providing critique to others I did kata and was pretty winded. Hopefully the allergy symptoms will pass in the next month and I'll be well rested.
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