The Summer Interclub last Sunday was my second Tang Soo Do tournament and, all in all, I didn’t do all that badly.\u00a0 Not that I couldn’t have done better.\u00a0 I’ll save that for next time.<\/p>\n
Ironically, I did best in weapons where I demonstrated a bong hyung (staff form) that I only did from end to end unassisted for the first time the day before.\u00a0 The competition was probably only the fourth or fifth time I ever did the entire form without someone coaching me in one way or another; either as a video recorded reference or in person.\u00a0 That form was the highlight of my day which went downhill steadily from there on out.<\/p>\n I often\u00a0refer to the classic Daffy Duck as Robin Hood cartoon\u00a0where he has some problems breaking down his\u00a0quarterstaff technique and trying to pick out where things are going wrong. That cartoon pretty well summarizes how the rest of my day went — just not with the staff.<\/p>\n After weapons, we moved on to hyung without weapons.\u00a0 I’ve been working on the second “peace and confidence” form, pyang ahn e dan, since shortly after my last belt promotion and thought it was ready enough to use as my tourney form. Not so much.\u00a0 Although it began well, it deteriorated the further along it went as I drifted away from doing the form<\/em> towards thinking about doing the form<\/em> until I became hopelessly mired in the last four movements thinking about whether or not I was framing my blocks correctly.\u00a0Classic “Analysis Paralysis”…<\/p>\n![\"DaffyStaff\"](\"http:\/\/wyvernhall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DaffyStaff.gif\")
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