yeah, i’ve been delinquent.

i went to Corpus Christy this weekend and watched a tkd tourny. they let the little ones here go full contact here.

to the head.

that may not be the actual rule, but the rules were so laxly applied that you could pretty much do anything short of injury. the old basketball addage seemed to apply. no blood no foul.

i say that because one kid was actually about to be disqualified ofr knocking out a tooth! yikes. but the toothless one remarked that it was the last of his baby teeth and that he wanted to keep fighting.

so they didn’t disqualify the other, and the kid who could have won by DQ lost the match.

tough little kid.

one of our 9 year olds knocked out another 9 y.o. black belt.

sweet kick. left leg roundhouse right to the jaw.

realizing the laxness of the rule enforsement, i pulled up a foldy chair next to the 12-16 year old ring and beheld the spectacle from up close. i actually caught one girl in the air, and threw her back in the ring.

she was so into the match that i don’t think she even realized i caught her, and put her back.

i love this shit.