The Journey of Karake - First National Competition

If you have been reading my last blog in regards to my daughter "journey to karate" then you might know she has won herself a trophy after 3 months of one day a week training in Karate.  I was very impress of what she has achieve in such a short period of time.  I remember her first competiton was in Oct and after she won her first trophy, her coach said will like to enter her for the National which I was thrill at the time but worry it will be too soon for her to enter such a big competiton but her coach kept telling me this will give her a good experience even if she doesn't get any medal.  I thought about it for a week and decide to enter her.

 

Again I was still skeptical about the competition consider she has not a lot of experience, like the last competition I didn't really know what National competiton mean until I went on the day then I realise it was competiting with other European countries.  At first I couldn't figure out why her coach kept asking me to enter my daughter but soon I realise that her karate is very good, not that I know anything about Karate at the time it was people from  another country coaches come up to me and ask if she was my daughter and telling me how good she is, then it finally sinked in to me that she really have talent in this area.

This time my daughter did not get a gold medal but came second with a silver medal consider she only a yellow belt.  I was still very please with her consider she was very young but so confident on the mat and not shown any sign that of being afraid, in fact I was more nervous.  I think being a parent who enter their children to competiton will understand my feeling.

Again it has now prove to me once again that she has talent and also enjoy it very much.  In fact I realise that it not always the case that children learn from their parents but also can be the other way round.  I learnt from my daughter at her young age she already very committed with the time she spent in training, determination, discipline and focus on doing her best ability.
 

The Journey of Karate - First Trophy

I've been making a lot of posts in regard to Karate.   Now it's time for me to go further why I created this blog in the first place.
 
It all started when my daughter asked me if she can do Karate.  At the time she was 1 month away before she turn six years old.   To be honest, my first thought it was  just another activities for her to do after school but as the time progress I found out that she has taken this very seriously. I remembered after 3 sessions of training at the Dojo (training centre), her Sensai (meaning coach in Japanese) asked me if she done Karate before and my reply was "never" she was impressed with my daughter because she is very flexible and at the time I did not really understand what she meant but let her continue to learn Karate.

I still remembered the first time when her coach said she would like my daughter to enter the club competiton and at the time it was  in Oct 2015,  I was little skeptical as she only been training in Karate for 3 months and felt it was too soon for my daughter to enter, well was I wrong!

On the day of the competition she was competing with 25 other children from her category.  I did not understand how it is scored as I never been to a Karate competition but all I notice was my daughter kept going back up each time the referee called her name, she had to do her Kata again and again, she was on the mat around five or six times.  I was very confuse on what was happening but when they announce she came first in her category I was shocked and couldn't believe my eyes.

I could not believed what I seen as when they announce the gold winner no body went up on the podium, the referee announce 3 times and no body came up and my daughter coach came up and annouced my daughter name, it turn out that the referee couldn't pronouced her name properly.

I was so happy at the time because considered she was a white belt and has beaten some of the children in higher grade than her, at the time I know she is gifted and talented in this area.

Goju Kai Hungary International Karate Competition 2016

2nd International competition in Hungary and achieved Bronze in Kata

Hungary International Karate Competition

International Karate Competiton

Just come back from a weekend with my daughter International Karate competition in Hungary and be honest I was please with her that she got a Bronze medal but disappointed on how the judges score the points to each individuals.  I do believe now every country will favourite their own country, just looking at this competition, I do feel the fairness is on the fine line.   I am so glad that Karate is in the Olympic as now gradually the scoring system will be centralise and obey to one set of rules. I hope this game will become more fair as the years to come.

The Karate Kata 6 years old kid