I am very involved in the sport of Taekwondo and on June 26th to the 30th of 2006 was the World Taekwondo Festival and Korean Open where over 45 countries compete in. This was my second international competition and I was in good form leading up to the trip.
I was made Captain for the pattern team which was great, although the jobs the coach's made me do were pretty boring like getting the team into lines and rounding people up but someone has to do it. I competed in power breaking with foot which is breaking as many boards as you can with your foot. I broke 5 and missed out on the final by one board! I also competed in power breaking with fist and broke 13 out of 15 which is not my best but still happy with my effort.
Then came patterns, which is doing techniques in a sequence, I did my personal best getting into the final 20 which was a very good field of people. Then came my bronze medal. I was in a team of 4 people where we have to do the same pattern at the same time and we managed to beat a few teams that are off to the World Championships later in September.
Overall the competition was awesome with Australia coming 2nd with Korea 1st.
Next.....World Championships in 2 years time????
