Karate Tournament

(Big thanks to Kerry for taking pictures, and for taking Miss D home so I could stay for my part of the tournament!).

Miss D went to her second Karate tournament last Saturday. She had been to one last fall, when she was only a yellow belt, but now she is an experienced blue belt. She practiced a lot for this tournament, and I was really impressed with how focused she was.



There was some kind of snafu with her division and she wound up getting bumped up two divisions from where she was supposed to be. Then there was another snafu with her Self-Defense competition, and her partner didn't know how to do the moves she was doing, so she had to teach the girl the moves during her performance!





But despite all that, she scored a bronze medal in Self-Defense and a 4th Place in Forms.

Mama hung around all day to do her competition and ended up winning two gold medals (Forms and Self-Defense). Of course, it helped that Mama was the only one in her division!!! Next time, Mama will have a higher belt (hopefully!) where there was actually a healthy amount of adult competition.