Overall I understand some of the frustrations others have expressed in regards to the organization of the tournament. My experience both with the KungFu tournaments and sparring tournaments that I have attended is that they are all generally like this, due to many factors such as late admissions of competitors, lack of sufficient volunteer staff and sometimes even judging staff. It takes a lot of effort to put on a tournament and often the organizers rely heavily on the community to support it (in the form of volunteers and donations). I have not yet attended a ‘bad’ tournament. I think that every experience can be a positive one, provided that we take the time to appreciate everyone’s efforts, and identify how we can improve it the next time for our self and others. For this tournament specifically I witnessed many competitors encouraging each other and that made me very proud, not only to be a practitioner myself, but for children who attended and received that same positive encouragement from other teammates. I am looking forward to the next one.
Jul 2, 2011
Jason's Tiger Claw Tournament thoughts
Overall I understand some of the frustrations others have expressed in regards to the organization of the tournament. My experience both with the KungFu tournaments and sparring tournaments that I have attended is that they are all generally like this, due to many factors such as late admissions of competitors, lack of sufficient volunteer staff and sometimes even judging staff. It takes a lot of effort to put on a tournament and often the organizers rely heavily on the community to support it (in the form of volunteers and donations). I have not yet attended a ‘bad’ tournament. I think that every experience can be a positive one, provided that we take the time to appreciate everyone’s efforts, and identify how we can improve it the next time for our self and others. For this tournament specifically I witnessed many competitors encouraging each other and that made me very proud, not only to be a practitioner myself, but for children who attended and received that same positive encouragement from other teammates. I am looking forward to the next one.
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