... Although that was not some awsome achievement, I would still like to mention that I participated in Slovenian Poomsae State Championship, and won it in "Veterans" category. Like last year. And also like last year I reached 4th place in "Best Competitor" category - I can not go by favorites when we are all in one bunch.
The event took place December 12th last year and I simply missed to write a post about it, thinking I had nothing important to say, but I changed my mind.
I performed in one "nice try" group but we were not prepared well, which shown bad. Anyways experience grows even in lost battles.
I am so sorry that many older masters are not brave and motivated enough to take part in such beautiful, peaceful event. This is rare chance to meet people from all over the country at least once a year, exchange experiences, discuss technique and styles, and at the end but not least important to have a nice time and fun. One can also learn a lot.
There is one thing quite annoying about rules, which shown out this (last year) as not completely fair, disregarding experience and knowledge of competitors of different ranks. That is - there was no scoring difference based on poomsae performed?!? So it was possible to compete with 5jang against someone who did SipJin and still outperform him. Very unlogical.
The former also changed tactics used by competitors so this competition we saw more student forms than any other. I performed 8Jang for warming up, then SipJin, while guys started with 6Jang and hardly decided to go for Keumgang! And in group categories (meaning pairs and fives) it became very common to see 4th Dan master performing paired to yellow belt student - 2Jang! And judges missed to punish obvious errors... what a circus (apologies to Referees, but... but.).
Some more complains must go to judges, which were commonly underskilled and deconcentrated. While deconcentration can be explained and excused due to long hours of sitting and watching people doing forms, not knowing correct techniques and coreography even for low-level forms (such as for student ranks) is inexcusable. I heartly hope next year situation will improve, otherwise I will get to perfoirming Illyeo, Hansu and Chonkwon, because no one will even notice when I make a mistake. And I will perform in Bruce-Lee-Wannabe style as it seems that is the only thing that can impress this class of judges. :)
All in all it was not so bad and, like I always mention, much fun. Let's hope for better next year.
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Congrats! Although, does that mean you're getting old, if they put you in the "Veterans" category?
Well, they have lowered age limit for "veterans" to 31 yo, so imagine in which category would you compete. ;) Thanks!
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