Written by I went to the Gold Rush Tournament hosted by sensei Bennati’s dojo about a week ago in grass valley. It was great see all of the people from the dojo there. We had a really good showing at the tournament, it was actually the most people from our dojo I’ve seen at a tournament that we didn’t host. I only competed in kata at the tournament. Me and Brody were in the same division as well as 3 other brown belts from sensei Bennati’s dojo. I performed seisan at the tournament, which was good enough for second place. After looking at the footage of my seisan from the dojo I found some things that I can improve from the kata. While I was at the tournament I had thought that a few of the mistakes I had made during the kata were due to the slippery mat, but after watching I have seen that that is not the case. I found that I wasn’t pulling punches back far enough, and that my timing was off a little bit. I have been working on these in my kata over the last week. It was great to see everyone competing at the tournament.
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Congratulations on doing well at the tournament. It takes courage to preform kata in front of people. The more you do it the less difficult and easier it becomes.