On Sunday I competed in my third Martial Arts tournament, the National All Styles (Round 1) at Ryde Aquatic Centre. It was my second tournament in 2 weeks, after competing in the Sydney All Styles NSW-AKF tournament the weekend before.

NAS is quite a different tournament – it definitely attracted more different styles of Martial Arts, including Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, Kung Fu, etc. The sparring is similar, but also quite different to the AKF rules. Many of the techniques that score points in NAS would never have scored in AKF events – which can make it quite challenging and make you fight in a different way than what you’re used to.

I competed in the Continuous Sparring, Forms (Kata) and Point Sparring events and apart from giving my friend Ray a bloody nose, in general I was pretty happy with how I went – coming 2nd (out of 3) in the Kata and 3rd (out of 6) in the Point Sparring.

The moment of impact when Ray's nose started to bleed

Please read on to see more images, video and my commentary of all of my events.

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