Taekwondo competition

On November, 5 -7 there was South Korean Taekwondo competition held in Kukkiwon, World Taekwondo Headquarters.  There were the students from more than 60 universities.  I participated in weight category which is called as featherweight (62-67 kg).  On Friday (November, 5) we gathered in Daejeon (near KAIST Auditorium) at 6 p.m., took a bus and moved to Seoul. On first day we had check-up on our weight, which I successfully passed. On that day we stayed in Motel, woke up early in the morning and went to Kukkiwon for competition. There were about 80 participants in my category.  In order to get medal one must win at least 4 games without losing. If you lose one game, then you’ll be out, without medals. The first day of the competition was very successful for me.  My first game was against the new comer in taekwondo, which I quite easily won. The second games were tougher as I accepted. Still I won the game with score 16-8. I also won my third game in a day with the result 7-2.

Then we went back and slept early to have a rest after long busy day. The next day I just had to win at least one game to be in the list of medalists. I started game quite well with the result 3-0. But at the end because of my mistakes and my opponent’s effort the game was equalized to 6-6. We had to fight for the gold point, which is called as sudden death. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it and was out of the game.

I learned a lot from competition. I’ll keep working on plans, to get gold medal in this competition.
 p.s. Here is the video fragment of my 3rd fight below: