Nov
18
2012
I've never been athletically inclined and I probably never will be. Nevertheless with the help of my family we won our first ever athletic competition (pictures are on Facebook). We started training in Taekwondo in August and had our first belt promotion in October. With our yellow belts in hand (actually around our wastes) we went to our first tournament. It was really a family-fun mock tournament. Everyone went home with something just for participation but event winners got special trophies. Our event was the family form. In the family form event your family as a group goes through the series of steps/positions for your belt level. We had twenty positions in our form and since we were still newbie yellow belts we had the added advantage of being allowed to count our numbers out loud as we moved. You are judged on how well you know your form as well as how well you stay in sync with each other. There were seven teams in all and I honestly didn't think we stood a chance. The other teams had been training longer than us (some much longer). I guess our practice and loud counting paid off. Now we have to figure out what to do with a ridiculously large trophy.