Almost Halloween

On Friday, October 30th, we were allowed to wear our costumes to KMVA.

 When Mom picked me up, she had her camera.  I was slender man again.

He's this creepy internet guy that wears a suit in the forest.  He lives off children's souls.  Scary huh?

 My third grade classmates all started getting into the picture.

 And more...

 I decided to run and get my mask.  Otherwise it looks like I am just wearing a suit.  That's not very scary.

 Oh there's Andy.  He's the lone ranger.  Not sure where he was running around....

 Ok, got the mask

 This is my full costume.  Later that same day, Mom and I went to the Halloween party at the dojo.

 I found Sabrina.

 Elliot was Hiccup from "How to Train Your Dragon".  Andy is below with Claire and Sabrina.  We stayed for about 45 minutes.  Fortunately, we did not do the haunted house.  I hear from Sabrina's Mom that it was scary.  Too scary.  Halloween Day was awful around here.  He had a lot of rain and wind.

Competition Day 2015-Goju Karate

Every year, sometime in mid-May, competition day happens at the dojo.  This is my 3rd year of competing.  The day starts at 8:00 am and goes to 6:00 pm.  This year, I came at noon, because most of the events that I was interested in happen in the afternoon.  Some of my friends spent all TEN hours at the dojo, I'm not there yet.  I started out with wrestling, and unfortunately, got pinned down by my first two opponents, who were 2 + years older than me and bigger kids...

 Here I am getting pinned by Elliot.

 Now I am fighting Sean (9 or 10 years), I made it harder for him, but he still got me pinned.

 Now I am fighting Olivia.  She always grabs my helmet to pull over my eyes.  That always bugs me.

 Olivia is 8 and a little bigger that myself, but more of a fair fight.  

 Fighting Olivia was close, but she won.

 Dad came right at the end of wrestling to cheer me up.

 Sensei pulled me in for balance kicking.  I didn't medal, but I did well.

 Next  was team kata. I did it with Andy & Elliot.  We were named the "Del Tacos".

 We got gold!

 Next was individual katas.  I competed with the other kids in the black belt club.

 I did my kata....

 and got the silver medal!

 The last competition of the day was Kumite or point sparring.  I fought against David and won.  I then fought against Olivia and lost.  I got silver in this too.  We left the dojo at 6:15.  It was a long day, but I felt happy with my accomplishments.