Lucas Grant: Week 50

Over the weekend I attended our in-school “absolute” tournament! It was a really good experience, and it was a great little test run before my final black belt test. How an “absolute” tournament works is you are put with a partner and you have top perforce kata, who even wins that gets a point, then you must spar, whoever wins that gets a point. Then if each person has one point to break the tie, they grapple, and whoever wins gets to either move on or get a placement. There were five people in my division, me included, and I was paired with a total of three partners. Needless to say I got a lot of practice that day. For my first two partners I won both the first kata and sparring, and for my last partner they won one kata, but I came back and won sparring and grappling. So overall I was able to get first place! This tournament was a good way to ease back into things after the thanksgiving break and it felt good to perform my kata and such. I may have been exhausted but it was a good eye opener on what I need to work on before the day of my test. Stamina.

My current Challenge progress as of May 19, 2024.