Sorta Long Day

Today was sorta a long day. I woke up at 9 and I popped on my computer and started editing a bit. I got the gun sounds in and now I'm adding music. At 11:30 I left for what became something that dragged on longer than it should have.

Every year, we have a huge karate tournament where people from around the world come meet at this high school gym to compete in karate. Today was just weapons and stuff, and tomorrow is the main competition. I went today for a seminar and a Batto-do competition.

The seminar was okay. It was a bunch of sparing drills (which by the way means fighting drills). It was pretty good, and I met a new friend from Canada! Oh the irony!

Then the Batto-do tournament started. Batto-do is basically the art of cutting with a Japanese katana (sword). Like in the movies, the swords the samurai always carry around. That sword. Yeah I do that. I'll give you a picture when I can.

Well the competition for me didn't start right away, so I sat against a wall with my long dress-thing on and my sword. I got sleepy. Then I got sleepier. Finally I got so sleepy that I leaned back against the wall more and fell asleep. This was in an area where basically everyone walked by. I was pretty much unconscious for a good 15 minutes or so. I woke myself up when my head started leaning forward. From what I hear, there were a few people taking pictures of me. I don't care, I got to sleep, I still win.

The competition finally came. On my second go for the elimination round I got eliminated. I was pretty upset. I had done better the second time than the first, but I lost. I was pretty confused and pretty angry, but I didn't show it and held it off till later.

Turns out I did 2 minor things wrong (one of which I was never ever taught) and they deducted me for that. They also added that, other than those few details, I looked really good. I'm thinking, "Wow, these karate masters remembered me out of everyone else here, and they remembered what I did wrong." I was feeling okay then, but then I remembered that they eliminated me for it. Then I thought "What the fuck. I should have won that...."

I realized today that I'm pretty damn competitive. I try not to show it because I'm embarrassed by it, but I am actually very very competitive. I don't usually do anything well unless I have some sort of competition running next to me. I do better with competition/people to OWN. I hate competing at these karate tournaments, but when I do, I MUST WIN.

Not like I will win tomorrow, but who knows? Miracles are real.

So overall today wasn't that bad, but I coulda gone a few years without it. I'd rather be at home editing or doing something not productive. I just have to keep thinking to myself: "It's just one weekend.... Not a big deal.... Chill...." So far it hasn't worked.

Well I think now after a good 9 hours out, I'm ready for a shower and a bit of editing. Tomorrow is gonna be a long, long, long day....