Julia chose to compete in forms (see Devin's tourny description) and sparring. Sparring is basically karate type boxing with all the padded gear on. The competition plays out much like what I would imagine "rooster"-fighting to be. It was a little crazy. Super-veiny hockey dads have nothing over some of these parents.
Julia did well enough to get a couple of points off her opponent. Her opponent ended up in 3rd place overall, so her first bout was pretty heavy competition. It's a little surreal to see your kid fighting though, I have to say. It was one of the more exciting events to watch. I spent most of my time trying to figure out the scoring.
Julia, who loves to compete, was totally relaxed about this whole thing. She wanted to try harder than she had to, so she learned all of the first kada (though in her age/belt they really only needed to know half of it). The whole form is something like 31 moves. But she wanted to do it all. She paused a couple of times to think, but did the whole thing! She did really well. I think they called them up in order of placement, and she was like 6th, so that was pretty cool.
Last week in class Ms. Valente decided to do a mini-tourny in class with the first kada. She chose the 3 finalists and the class chose the winner by vote. Julia was one of the 3 finalists. I have to say she had all her moves down and really did an excellent job, I would have voted for her too. Then when the class chose the winner, she got all but about 3 votes. She was ELATED. Good job, Tiny!!
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