Tuesday, March 28, 2017

March 18, 2017 tournament. Clips from Andre's free sparring.

I had two fights also known as "free sparring".
The first three clips are about the first fight.  The second set of video clips are about the second fight.
These video clips have not been edited.  The person recording made very short videos.  I still appreciated him recording these clips.
My opponents scored points, as you can see, and I scored points too.
As you can see, both fighters against me were good, very good.  Confident, charging, taller.  I also had an advantage.  I've been practicing longer.
I had a quick back kick to the head at the end of this clip for two points.
These two gentlemen fought very differently.  So I had to adjust my style of fighting.  For the color pads on our chests, I was red in the first fight, blue in the second.  The color is only for identification when calling points.
We all scored points.  At the end, I scored more points.  The whole fights were not recorded, but I remember scoring more points to the head, which is two points.
As you may have guessed, I won both fights.  I did not "dominate" the fights.  These men were good.  On the other hands, I felt I had more tools in by bag of free sparring tricks that I didn't use, but I could use if the fighters got ahead of me in points.
Participating was a great reward! I will remember these men.  They will remember me.  I'm looking forward to seeing them next year.  We appreciated each other.  Competition in tournaments should not be mean spirited and it was not, we all are TaeKwonDo practitioners who wanted to free spare in a safe and sportsmanship way.   We did.
I've enjoyed it! Driving back home, I kept saying to myself "I could have done this, I could have done that!" and maybe everyone who participated that day was saying the same thing.

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