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.