Taekwondo MAPCU

This is my 3rd time to join Taekwondo MAPCU competition..

I joined both poomsae and sparing competition
I know my chance of winning is very small as I'm up against black belts.
I wanted to train more before the MAPCU competition to be more prepared but there are a lot of stuffs that I need to do such as assignments, and other events.
The event was held in APIIT on 26 and 27 of September

---------SPARRING-----------

First day of the competition is Sparring.
Before the competition, I keep practicing my chopping kick. I'm planning on use that kick the most during the sparing competition. However, things are completely different during the competition. I was too nervous, my leg was so stiff. My chopping kick is just very slow and can't reach him. Even when I managed to land my leg on his head, it have no impact, and most probably I just hit the helmet.

I know my mistakes, I just moved backward and forward, not sideways. I kept kicking my opponent back and not his front body. When he guard his body, I don't have the idea how to score. I supposed to do fakes, I supposed to move faster, but my movement is stiff. I'm supposed to be fast, but I was slow at the time. The most fatal mistakes that I did is giving my opponent the distance to kick. I keep pulling back when he kicks. I supposed to do the opposite. MOVE IN. Therefore its gonna be his thigh or knee that hit me, and there will be no point nor impact. My guard is also a fatal mistakes that I did, I didn't guard my head properly, therefore my opponent manage to hit my neck twice and my face once. My neck and nose was swollen, and I got crack on my nose.

The score gap is very big, It was 3 to 11 or 3 to 12 if I'm not mistaken.
yea, I managed to score some points. But its pointless as I still lose the match.
I want to win, but there might be no more MAPCU for me, I'm going to graduate next semester.


--------POOMSAE-------

Next day is Poomsae competition.
The night before the competition, I did a little bit of extra training so that I can win.
At the day it self, there are 22 competitors in the poomsae of black belt category.
when I saw the other competitor doing their poomsae, I thought that sunway and monash have a good chance to win this. In my opinion their poomsae is not as good as sunway and monash people.

When it comes to my turn doing the poomsae, I did the same mistakes like before, NERVOUS.
Because of nervous, I don't have the speed and power in my movements as I think too much when I wanna move to the next step.

In the end the winners are
1. HELP university student (can't recall his name, but apparently this guy is sea games gold medalist @ 2003)
2. Yung lin
3. Wei Hong

the first winner scored 91 points, and both yung lin and wei hong scored 78 points.
I just scored 70 points, not good enough to win the game.



Note:
1. Special Thanks to Yung Lin. Thanks a lot for giving me advise when u coach me and for teaching me taegeuk 7 and 8 nicely. U r the man.
2. next post is gonna be.... PANGKOR!!!