My First Karate Tournament Tomorrow!
Well i’m very excited, albeit nervous excitement! Tomorrow I enter my first Karate tournament. It’s an all-styles tournament run by International Budo Sport, the IBS Nationals. All-Styles means any style is welcome – any forms of Karate, Hapkido, Tae Kwon Doe, Kick Boxing etc. all competing together.
I’ve been learning Shotokan Karate with the Black Bert Martial Arts school here on the Central Coast for the last 22 months or so and I’ve really been loving it. The school is run by Shihan Liz Mahler and recently celebrated 21 years on the Central Coast. I’d never really thought about entering tournaments before – probably a combination of lack of skill and experience and just no real desire; I’d really only been doing Karate for the fitness and confidence.
But for the past couple of months I’ve felt a bit of an itch to enter some tournaments to see how I rate against other people of other styles and grades.
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