yeah, those kias get to me too. I competed a month and a half ago in an open tourney here in Denver. Wow, the judges sucked, there were a whole bunch of kids just screaming all over the place. I was told I was scored lower for having too silent of a form, and the fact that the judges admitting to not knowing what they were looking at (that wasn't frustrating). Anywho, they are loud, and the forms or kata get pretty boring after a while. I also don't get why they score twirling staffs so **** high at these things. I got beat in the weapons forms by a guy who twirled his staff like a baton the whole first 75-80% of the form, one of the other guys from his school started freakin' when he completed a twirling pass behind the back (which wasn't clean). He all looks at me and says good luck, assuming that I wouldn't have a chance in the world of beating that (which I didn't, but thats just the judging). The end of the form consisted of yelling and pokes and swipes to some more twirling to the finish. I did a broadsword form, got some funny looks.
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