Amazing, inspiring, and extraordinary with a heart beat. Those are the words that come to mind when I reminisce on what I witnessed yesterday. From kids to adults the display of courage, skillset and hard work was just awesome. The amount of children in attendance was incredible as was the mindset and leadership of our instructors and their obvious ability to influence a positive encouragement to push yourself and doing your best is the goal. Seeing all of this was definitely a look into the future of our school and the standard that is to be expected. I think overall the results speak for themselves.
The hard work and discipline of all the Que belts as they prepared and competed in the tournament was way cool. From hand forms, to weapons, to fight choreography, both point and continuous sparring was just amazing. It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of everyone and perform or take on a challenge publicly and from what I seen from the students as a whole was just awesome. Kudos to all of the students and the efforts of our instructors.
My fellow candidates did so awesome at everything they did. I feel so proud and fortunate to train with these two highly skilled martial artists. They never cease to inspire me and keep me honest. Well done Sihings!
The Tiger Challenge also gives the students an opportunity to watch the Black Belts compete and perform and it was awesome. Having the privilege to witness that much skill and advancement was very inspirational. They all did so awesome I would need a whole page just to explain what I took away from it. But some of the more memorable parts was Sifu Reiger's unique signature on Loa Gar, Sifu Vanderham's performance of a form I dont know how to spell, (so I'm not going to try) and Sifu Rybak performing snake was awesome. I honestly don't know if I could ever move like that, but there will come a day where I will have too. Seeing these two different styles was interesting and an exciting look ahead as to what the future holds once a student receives the rank of Black Belt. Sifu Becketts Horse whip was amazing, the intensity in the eyes and definition of the form was very cool, Sifu M Becketts musical sword form was really incredible and she performed extremely well. I really enjoyed the unique Bench of Death form by Sifu Lindstrom. His form shows a huge level of creativity and is a good reminder that anything is a weapon.
As for my own experience, I could have done much better and to me in my mind, it was somewhat of a disaster. Nonetheless, it was a great day and I'm glad I was fortunate to be a part of it. My performance anxiety was next to nothing so that shows an area of growth. Looking forward to next year for sure as it will be on another level. So much to look forward too.
One last note a big hats off to all those that were the back bone of it all. From Sifu Csillag and others that organized and laid out the tournament, to all of the Sifu's that judgded the events, to Sifu Dennis pounding out the numbers and tracking the overall tournament and to all the volunteers that made it all happen, thank you very much. Your time and effort are very much appreciated by us all.
No comments:
Post a Comment