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annuinEver have those moments when you listen to tracks by bands that are really good, but when you remember your first encounter with them you thought they sucked? Must have been a bad first choice of track to listen to the first time around I guess.
Today we headed into the city for the All American Open Karate Championships. Several of the people from our dojo were competing as well, including senpai Eduardo who generally had the best chance of all of them, and who made good on it by coming second in the Men's kumite division. It would have been nice if he prevailed, but the guy he lost to was a lot better in their match, and now won his fourth consecutive All American Open title, so he lost to the best, which I guess is some consolation. He also got an award for best technique, which was justly awarded as technically he was a much nicer fighter to watch.
I think the best match that I watched was the women's middleweight final, which a Canadian fighter won. She eventually also won against the heavyweight champion and lightweight champion to become Open American champion also. It's interesting to see the difference in the way people fight depending on weight, it seems to work the same way... the heavyweights often end up just being more stationary and pushing people around with their weight (or bosom if they're women), the lightweights have a lot of technique and get many moves and kicks in, but often lack in the strength and stamina department, and the middleweights seem to have the best of both worlds. More power than the lightweights, and much more agile than the heavyweights. The Canadian really kicked ass... she was so hyped before each match and dominated them, executing a load of kicks, many of them very successful. There also seemed to be a marked difference between the men and women... the men seem to punch a lot more and the women kick more, as a result I found the women's matches more interesting to watch, because quite a few of the men's matches ended up looking like close quarter boxing type fights.
PreZ and I got lucky there as well, winning in the raffle. All tickets were automatically entered. Alas we missed out on the 2 plane tickets to Japan, but we did win a $100 sportsbag/goodybag full of stuff, supposedly Japanese food. Should be interesting to see what's in it when it arrives, as they're mailing it to us. Considering we never win a damn thing I was quite surprised.
Today we headed into the city for the All American Open Karate Championships. Several of the people from our dojo were competing as well, including senpai Eduardo who generally had the best chance of all of them, and who made good on it by coming second in the Men's kumite division. It would have been nice if he prevailed, but the guy he lost to was a lot better in their match, and now won his fourth consecutive All American Open title, so he lost to the best, which I guess is some consolation. He also got an award for best technique, which was justly awarded as technically he was a much nicer fighter to watch.
I think the best match that I watched was the women's middleweight final, which a Canadian fighter won. She eventually also won against the heavyweight champion and lightweight champion to become Open American champion also. It's interesting to see the difference in the way people fight depending on weight, it seems to work the same way... the heavyweights often end up just being more stationary and pushing people around with their weight (or bosom if they're women), the lightweights have a lot of technique and get many moves and kicks in, but often lack in the strength and stamina department, and the middleweights seem to have the best of both worlds. More power than the lightweights, and much more agile than the heavyweights. The Canadian really kicked ass... she was so hyped before each match and dominated them, executing a load of kicks, many of them very successful. There also seemed to be a marked difference between the men and women... the men seem to punch a lot more and the women kick more, as a result I found the women's matches more interesting to watch, because quite a few of the men's matches ended up looking like close quarter boxing type fights.
PreZ and I got lucky there as well, winning in the raffle. All tickets were automatically entered. Alas we missed out on the 2 plane tickets to Japan, but we did win a $100 sportsbag/goodybag full of stuff, supposedly Japanese food. Should be interesting to see what's in it when it arrives, as they're mailing it to us. Considering we never win a damn thing I was quite surprised.
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Date: 2004-06-20 02:01 am (UTC)