Sunday, June 05, 2005

Went to the National Judo Championship in the morning. Met up with peizhi, kian soon, kitson, valmund and wee kiat at the Bedok MRT control station first. At first we thought the matches going to end already so everyone was so panicked cause we really want to watch the seniors and cheryl fight. Then everyone started running to the bus stop then from the stop we alight, we ran all the way to the sports hall! It's really such a funny sight lo! haha. Thank god the match had only started one third when we reached.

However, the scene was not what I expected. No huge crowds, not much surporters. The sports hall was like 3/4 empty! It's kind of pathetic for the nationals. Not every school had sent their players to the nationals so there's a higher chance in winnning in the nationals compared to the school championship. Ironic right!

Anyway, some of the J2 had already played the first round; some won, some lost. So when we arrived it's more like the starting of the second round of matches. Let me start with all the guys first. Daryl's second match was really exciting. Both the players are very fast in their attacks. He won that match but lost in the third placing match. He looked disappointed of course but he really did played a good match. I actually wanted to console him one, but ya, didn't know him well so I just sat there and stare blankly.
Yen Sun had won the second match quite easily. He's wearing an orange belt today lo! They said his brown belt wasn't recognised and don't know what so he had to wear an orange. But his skill is so good. I bet the opponent had also kind of under estimate him. He got silver in the end. The final match for the gold medal was like so fast! BAM! He's out! Oh my gosh...
Danny lost the match to get him into finals, so he's against wei wu in the end. Ny people versus ny. Kind of weird. Danny's ground tactic is damn pro! He won wei wu by that. Bronze.

As for the girls, when we arrived, we already heard that qiuxuan had won the first match. She lost the second match though. I think I'm suck at consoling people. I just don't know what to say. But I guess that had also spurred her to get a bronze in the end.
Eileen's match was also very exciting. If I didn't remember wrongly, the opponent was either leading or they were draw at first. In the end she won by a chocking. Cool.
Cheryl played shortly after eileen's. She is so so pro! It's not even 5 seconds then BAM! She won! Oh my! Heard that she's the 9 time champion for her category so this is her 10!!!
Lixin played immeidaitely after her. Opponent had a koka or yoko i think. So she's losing in the beinging. Cheryl was so so gan jiong for her and was shouting at the boundary of the dojo to tell her what to do. Then suddenly BAM! An ippon! *woot*
So in the end, it's lixin against cheryl. hahahaha. The match was so funny and exciting! Cheryl was like damn zhuai lo! She's like smiling while lixin tried to slam her but failed. Big bully lo! Ya, in the end cheryl got gold, lixin silver. lixin did a good job though and it's a good match.

So NYJC got 3 silvers, 2 bronzes- Yen Son, Eileen, Lixin; Qiuxuan, Danny. Congrates! =)

Finally got to understannd a little bit more on the scoring system after some explaination from the j2s. I think I did leant a little bit of stuff from today's competition. Oh ya, one of the female player from another school got injured so badly that paramedics were called. I think she dislocate her ankel. But devica said that the school championship is going to be much tougher and ruthless than this. Gosh. Finally know the competition dates already. 30th june and 1st july for the idividual and 7th july for team. It's directly the day after all my mid-year exam. Wow...

Tomorrow there's G.C. outing and A.F. dinner. I don't know about the A.F. dinner cause the next day I got math project and camp. haix. I'ld try alright, it's da ge birhday celebration after all...

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