2nd place....

I went to the Lancing Competition Saturday morning. Not a lot of people showed up, the competitors were all the students within the kungfu club. Although it was an open competition, the turn out was pretty low. A group from Ottawa apperantly attended past competitions, as did a group from Taiwan, but they didn't show up this year. Despite the low attendance, there were actually still quite a few people. Most of them were in the A category, where us beginners were in the B category. Although a lot of people signed up for the B category, only 4 of us showed up. The competition was point based. Each match last for 3 minutes, any clean thrust to the head or upper body was 3 points, and any slashes for strikes to the appendages were 1 point. The maximum points was 12. Whoever accumulates 12 points first, or has the most points at the end of the match wins. I was too defensive in my first 2 matches as I didn't know what to expect. As a result, I mostly blocked and hardly scored anything. I was really unhappy with my performance, and thus attacked much more fiercely in later matches. Turned out my accumulated points became the same as some other guy, and we had to fight a sudden death match ( were slashes don't count, and match is win by first clean thrust to the head/upper-body ). I won the match, and was placed 2nd. I'm pretty happy about the result though. Although I didn't score enough points to get 1st, I was able to dominant most of my matches, and I beat the 1st place guy 12-3. :) More photos can be found under Photos