Dorset Open (in Dorset)
Last tournament of the year! We left the union at 6am to arrive at 7am for an 8am weighing (which was stupid, everyone moaned that we should have had an extra hour in bed), anyway so there wasn’t any danger zone on the minibus this time however we couldn’t not go over some top gun songs – so after a bit of “you’ve lost that loving feeling” we were ready for the tourny. Yeaa!
Everyone weighed in fine except Simon or has obviously been eating way too many Easter eggs and was classed as “obese” by the scales so had to get a bit naked to get his weight down, which turned out alright (hehehehehehe I saw him nipples!).
The morning however was not alright, the kids were on til about 3pm and me and Steve (one of our instructors) had to corner judge for about 3 hours, which was cute but not very interesting – every other kid would cry as their competitive instructors shoved them off to the “loser” side and pushed in their next victim, however in one fight a kid was sick everywhere. As you can see, it was very tiring for me!
Anyway our fights started in the afternoon, Nathan started off well by giving Louie (our guest minibus passenger, who is a competitor from Power House TKD) a close match and winning eventually, but the others didn’t follow by example. Feliciano, Colin, Till, Ed and Simon all lost their fights - Colin was angry in his fight! Which was funny to watch, Ed and Till did really good for their first ever competitions and Feliciano went down injured cos he’s a mumma’s boy.
Mo took a crazy dive (well he took a kick to the face) and got knocked out in his first (and only) fight. Whoopzy, he fell on his ankle during his unconscious visit to the ground and was in A and E last time I heard from him getting his ankle x-rayed (with his lover Sam – who dicked on all her opponents and won gold again, gj) so hope everything’s all right Mo, which I’m sure it is! Apparently he can’t remember any of it anyway.
Laura only had one opponent cos of her random red belt category (one before black), she jumped around in a girl like manor then kicked her in the face pretty bad, followed by lots more kicks and was so far ahead on points that they stopped the match, so well done Laura – gold for her. Classic woman always showing us boys up by doing better than us.
Anyway Russ and Rob both got beat in the finals to take home silver medals; they did alright but encountered stamina problems (I think their just lazy) so couldn’t clench the wins. So after this there was only one final left, which was Nathan’s – he was a bit knackered and injured from the previous 2 fights he had to win to get to the final, and his opponent was the guy who knocked out Mo (Revenga!). This fight was crazy, Nathan starting off well and got about 6-1 up on points then basically walked into about 10 of the guy’s kicks in 2 seconds, which brought it back to 6-6. Nice one dipshit, anyway a bit after this he decided to take a headshot as well which put him 10-8 down with about 10 seconds to go! In an “epic” (as Ed said) battle, he dived in last second to make it 10-10, bringing it to sudden death. Louis and Russ bitched about the judges (cos Russ is actually a bitch), but it didn’t matter – Nathan throw himself in and took the golden point to secure the victory. Everyone got really excited and Tillman wet himself, haha. No he didn’t really; anyway we headed home for a quick drink (and a toast to Mo) at the Union and didn’t get back til about 9pm. On the minibus home Simon apologised (cos that what he does) and Feliciano as always, fell asleep.
So it was a great day, bit of a too-early start tho, had some good performances and an unlucky knockout for Mo. Good job to the girls who both won gold medals and thanks go to the random Strand driver John and out instructors Steve and Bryan for instructing us!
Till(man) next time,
Steve
MOTM – Nathan for beating the guy who knocked Mo out and winning a gold medal
DOTD – Mo for getting knocked out and not winning a gold medal
Videos coming soon!
Medal Tally:
Laura - Gold
Sam - Gold
Nathan – Gold
Rob – Silver
Russ – Silver
Simon – Bronze
Colin – Bronze
Ed – Bronze
Mo – Bronze (and a concussion)
Feliciano - Bronze
