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Archive for August, 2006

Sick

Well, the day after the tournament, both Luke and I got sick with colds. Oh joy! At least it waited ’till after the tournament. I’m glad about that. I was feeling a tad under the weather so I didn’t partake in the invitation to play in a 8 Shamisen Hextet. Oh well. That put a […]

Tournament - Part 3

Since I just finished the Youth kumite, there was a few more youth things before Luke did Indiv. Kumite in the Adult Kumite section. I watched some of the matches. They had weapon Katas which were fun to watch.
It was 2:00 and I was getting a little hungry and thirsty. (I had a bagel for […]

Tournament - Part 2

When we arrived, there wasn’t a parking spot to be found. We got out of the car and signed up. I thought the tournament ended at noon but I guess it would be much longer than that. Luke and I signed up for Team Kata and Team Kumite but we looked on the roster and […]

Tournament - Part 1

We were gonna go to Jon’s salon at 8:10AM to carpool up to the tournament. I dreamt that we overslept and didn’t make it in time so I woke up at 6:00 and could never really go back to sleep ’cause every 15 minutes, I looked at the clock.
At seven o’ clock, I got up. […]

Mouthguards

Last week, we bought these mouthguards for the tournament. I was the first one to soak mine in warm water to conform to my mouth. The thing was, I didn’t read the instructions (since I think instructions are for sissies) so I only put it warm water (since two people told me not to have […]