I guess I won't make you all wait any longer, here are videos of our performances this past Sunday.
First off, here's Andrew performing his kata...
And here's me walking off the video frame first, then throwing my bo accross the room ;)
I think both videos do show how shiny our bos look under the spotlights but even then, it was much worse from up there...
FM
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Hahaha! I couldn't help but laugh as I saw you go out the frame. Mwahahahaa! Priceless! Damn, where's my mastercard?
Woah mini-fm!
GO mini-FM!
GO mini-FM!
GO mini-FM!
Incredible. I don't know if I could do a presentation like that. Those bo's where spinning allright.
Nice recovery! Like nothing happened allright. It almost looks planned.
Much better form that last time. Stronger stance. Standing straight helps a lot. :-)
(I told my all-knowing alter-ego that often suffers from foot-in-mouth disease while talking karate to shut up with things to look out for. As you're already hard enough on yourself.)
Be well!
Mat
thanks for the cheers Mat :)
Now looking at it a few days after the fact, I agree that it's kind of humorous how I walk off the screen. Even funnier is the fact that I'm perfectly centered in the screen for the one moment I would have like her not to be filming me, heh... :)
Don't hold anything, I can take comments, don't worry. :)
Take care, Steve.
Andrew est très impressionnant !
Toi aussi, même si on a pas tout vue :)))
Bien hâte de vous voir briller au tournoi dimanche !
A+
c'est vraiment drôle, genre blooper. Mais tu vois, elle était trop fière de son homme. Pas le temps de filmer!
haha!
I enjoyed watching both videos. Andrew is great with the bo! He did one of the best bo katas I've seen from someone his age. Your kata was wonderful as well. I think I would have gotten really flustered had I dropped my bo, but you looked like you didn't miss a beat.
Although I don't read French (why can't they be writing in German :-) I'll give you both an A+ as well.
Brittney
Sébastien, merci. Tu devrais avoir la chance de tout voir dimanche, à moins que tu ne cligne des yeux ;)
Mat, j'avoue que l'effet blooper est assez là. Il ne manquait plus que je tombe en bas du "stage" pis qu'elle continue à filmer le milieu avec les deux cannes en bonbon. :D
Brittney, thanks for the very kind comments. I guess our style is like a nest of bo handlers because I have seen many more impressive than Andrew. He still impresses me in his own way and he's come a long way since first touching a bo a little more than a year ago. He seems to be having fun, showing lots of interest when a bo class is coming, so I guess I couldn't ask for more. As for me, well, I've been through this before (there's a video of me dropping my bo somewhere on the blog) so I guess I'm now mentally conditionned to keep going even with a drop. :) It's also how we do in a class, if you drop, of miss a strike, our instructor tells you to keep on going. And since I practice my kata bits by bits, the place where I picked it back up was a spot where I often start working on a sequence, so I was able to restart from there.
Take care, Steve.
oh and Brittney, you gave me a good laugh. Thanks for the A+ score but what Sébastien meant is a French contraction that means "à plus tard" or simply translated "later" ;)
Good thing they don't write in German to be honest with you because I would need an heavy dose of babelfish to be able to answer them... :)
Take care, Steve.
I like the videos.
Andrew was awesome
I'm not involved in any sports right now.
I admire anyone who commits time and energy to perfection.
My new blog is pretty basic, but I would love to add videos.
Zudy
thansk for your comments Zudy.
We sure do commit time it, but we're far, very far from perfection :)
As for adding videos, youtube or google videos are fairly easy to use. I find google video to be a bit more private, as you can declare a video as being "unlisted" yet still embed it in your blog...
Take care, Steve
What can I say that has not already been said...
YA MAN!!! You guys rock!!
And that Bo! Man I had to put sunglasses to watch the whole thing (that would look nice on your next show :)).
Andrew : I'm not worthy! Man that kid sure knows how to handle that thing!
Santa's is bringing a Bo to my son this Christmas. Can't wait to see his face!
Keep it up guys!
Marc
Marc, your comments, along with all the other ones, just gave me goosebumps. I'm really proud of how my boy has improved over the last year or so. Last year at this time, he was borrowing a bo at the dojo. We offered him one for Christmas (similar to what Santa is planning for your son ;) ) and we started giving him private classes and wow. I hope you show Andrew's video to your son, I'm sure he'll like it. :)
Take care, Steve.
Great performance both. I hope I'll see you sunday, you seem very dedicated. Good luck at the tournament and your way to black belt. I know by experience how it can be long, especially for kid. Never forget, you train for yourself and every performence is a fight against yourself. Trophy doesn't really matter, however it boost us each time we won one ;).
Bonne chance! Peut-être qu'on se croisera là-bas on sait jamais :o
wow, another French speaking visitor! Thanks for your comments Benoit, very appreciated.
Dedicated? yeah, you could say that. I actually like what I'm doing right now. I don't get much other than bettering my own self out of it and I guess that's the beauty of the whole thing. As you say, trophies don't really matter, other than encourage to push ourselves a bit more. If I do a kata that I deem very good this Sudnay, yet I come in 3rd or something like that, I'll be just as happy. Same for my son. If I see that he's done his kata the best he could do them at that moment, I'll be happy with his performance, that he gets 1st place, or that he doesn't class at all...
Thanks for your encouragement regarding the long road to the black belt. I never really started practicing in order to get a black belt. Now it's kind of different, as I can see myself getting there at one point in the foreseeable future, but it's still not the one reason why I keep on practicing. I just like doing it. If now by rebound, I serve as a motivation to my son to keep on going, even better.
The sentence I know by experience leads me to believe that you are a black belt yourself, am I right?
En tout cas, très heureux de te voir écrire ici. Tu sais ce dont j'ai l'air grâce à la photo de mon profile et par mes vidéos. Si tu es à la compétition, viens me serrer la pince dimanche. Je devrais me tenir autour du ring 12 (30-39 ans) ou du ring 4 (9 ans). :)
Take care, Steve.
When I say I know by experience, yes I am a black belt (1st dan). I am young (18 years old, I'm in the ring 11, close to your) and that took to me 11 years before getting my black belt. I almost never did competition before, but since I am black belt (almost 1.5 years), I'm practicing a lot more. I think the maturity and interest was not there before. The competition at Ste-Foy is a great start for me ; I live here (but I'm training at Quebec studio). It will be hard to start in one of the most competitive division. Anyway I'm sure I will have fun and learn much about competition ^^.
See ya there I hope!
wow, lots of maturity for a relatively young person like you. Kudos to you for trying out competition as a black belt and for cranking up your training time *after* getting your black belt. Seems I often only hear about kids who get their black belt and then drop out of it.
I'm sure the 18-29 black belt category is probably one of the toughest, but as you said yourself, the trophy isn't always the only thing. To train with a goal in mind is a wonderful thing. To give the best performance you can is always the greatest.
Best of luck on Sunday. My son and I usually arrive quite early (say around 8:00-8:15) so if you see an old dude spinning a shiny bo around round 12 or 4, come and say hi. :)
Take care, Steve.
The major problem with black belt is this is the only goal of a lot of person. But for me, teaching and competition are another. I think it is because of my teachers too (they are 4rd to 7th dan). I saw after getting my black belt how I have to learn again. It is just incredible how I know nothing and I am at this level, I never thought that before (as a kid I learned less than an adult too). When I realised how much I can improve with more practice and class and the only thing who can stop me is me, my interest grew up really high. I hope it's gonna be the same for you and Andrew!
Have a nice day, sunday is really close ;)
Wonderful!
From the little moments that were captured on the screen, in between the walking off parts.. I got some impressions.
I love how you didn't let that slip up near the end stop your kata! Great focus.. many people would have stopped cold.. but not you.. you kept up the kata until the end! Standing applause.
I've also noticed that you have been working on your stances, and position. It was hard to tell if you kept your eyes up in this video... but from the angle of your head, I'd guess that you've been working on that aspect too.
Great performance from your son, also. His kiai has more "attitude" now. Wonderful! He sure has improved in all aspects.
Looks like a real spirit of martial arts presenting itself on that stage.
Mireille, thanks for your nice comments.
I've discussed with another online friend regarding how both me and Andrew can seemingly keep on going on without pause even after dropping our bo. I'd never realized how important it was before but when performing our kata in front of our instructor, if a glitch happens, he keeps on saying "go on, go on, go on" and it become part of you to just "go on" and finish the kata. I guess that's a positive of that way of working.
I have indeed tried to pay attention to my stances although my hand placements have regressed. more stuff to work on :) I also try to make sure I look straight up.
And I agree with you, Andrew's kiai have grown at the same time he's matured in the style. And as you said, he's improved in all aspects, even some you've not seen, like his tradtitional katas. Being focused on getting better for that show performance has forced him to commit himself and I think just because of that, because he sort of followed me, my signing up for the show was worth it...
Take care, Steve
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