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.
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