The Bobby Lawrence Karate tournament this November was fun and long. Friday night, we went for the demo team competition. For the amount of practice we had, I would say we had a pretty decent
demonstration put together. Nice work Scott, for making this possible.
After the demonstrations, Michael and I staid to help out with judging and cleaning up. Earlier Saturday, it had started snowing, and by the time we left the expo center, it was a full on blizzard! Jessica was our ride home, and we walked out to her car to find it dead... After scanning the almost empty parking lot for someone who could help us, we finally found a nice lady to jump Jess's car. Jessica came out to thank her, and it was only after she drove off that we realized we were all locked out of the running car! We called the Sandy police, only to be told they could come break into her car, but would have to smash a window. The only other option was to call her husband Kurt, who was in Provo, to come up and save us. Which he did. Meanwhile, we were stuck out in the blizzard. Fortunately for us, the very last person in the parking lot was our friend, Jon Bronson. Jon staid with Jessica while his wife Kristin took Michael and I to get something to eat. (We were starving!) I'm so thankful for the Bronson's, so we had a warm car to wait in while we waited for Kurt to come unlock the car. By the time Kurt showed up, the roads were extremely bad... We were very blessed to make it home safely.
Michael and I went to bed at 2 in the morning, and had to get up early to go back the following morning.
The next day consisted of hours and hours of judging.... It could go so much faster if each ring could have knowledgeable scorekeepers instead of the 10 year olds they had making multiple mistakes. They slow the entire ring down. Oh well...
Here are some of my students at the tournament who competed and did awesome jobs! I was so proud of them.
And here I am judging with my friend Nathan... It was fun to hang out with my old pessimistic buddy. ;)
Unfortunately, the events went so slow, that Michael and I had to wait until after the black belt test to compete. The test went well. Everyone from our school who tested passed. Scott got his 5th degree! Woo Hoo! Here's Sydney who just earned her 1st degree black belt.
Here's Michael warming up before competing. Look at those straddles! Scott's doing his Tuscan Raider imitation in the background. :)
Finally we were up to compete. Michael wasn't feeling too great and kept sliding on the slippery mats while he was sparring. He ended up taking third anyway. That's my boy!
He placed second in Contemporary Kata with Ba Sai Dai.
He placed first in Contemporary Weapons with Sato. See for yourself.
I competed in three events, none of which were sparring. I'm a chicken. I did end up placing first in Contemporary Kata with Black Ice. I thought Joelle's form was better, but hey, I'm not complaining.
All in all, it was a good Tournament. I can't wait until May's. Michael and I will hopefully be testing for our fourth degrees. *fingers crossed*
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