2. Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc. And link to it, of course!
While I was reviewing my older blog posts, my favorite post was when I went snowboarding several times. This link is all my snowboarding trips I have blogged about Boreal Ski Resort, North Star Ski Resort,Squaw Valley Ski Resort, Dodge Ridge Ski Resort. I had one more snowboarding trip but I accidentally delete it. The one I deleted was my first time snowboarding with my friend, Adam. We went somewhere around Yosemite National Park in 2008. My other trips I went with in Boreal was with my sister and her boyfriend. The rest of the trips I went with my sister, just the two of us. When Winter comes by it is my favorite season of the year because ever since I went snow boarding I like it a lot. Even tho went I went for the first I had fun when I fall. When I went on my second trip to Boreal I was excited. You will found this quote in Boreal Ski Resort. " Since it was my second time I wasn't nervous going down the slope because I did okay on my first snowboarding trip. So I went for it gaining a lot of speed about less than half down and I end up face planting onto the ground." When I reread this blog I remembered when I fell and made when smile. After I fell I end up busting my lip and it went numb. Never go to Boreal because it is a small place and the snow is not really soft. I love to snowboard. As I kept going on snowboarding trips, I gotten better and better. I do not fall as much now, but only when I am tired and need to rest my legs. On my last trip I finally found out how to get off the ski lift without falling. All you need to do is go straight down the lift and stay in the middle of your snowboard. When I go on snowboarding trips It feels fast and you only have like seven hours to snowboard. Most of them open until 9am-4pm. I wished it could open for another extra hour. I can not wait until my next snowboarding trip with my sister which is in about seven months.
8. How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?
Over both of the semester, working with writer's block has gone well. I like to block has an homework assignment every week. I get to share with people who are interested on my blog topics all around the world. In the beginning of the school year when we had to do a minimum of 300 word blogs, it sounded too much to type. As the first and second quarter past along, I have gotten up to the average of 400 word blogs. I thought second semester would be essay until second semester was changed by an extent ion of 200 more words. So every week blog posts were now 500 words minimum. As I did a few blogs it was not that bad. My length of writing improved when second semester started. Most of my blogs has 600+ words. Writer's block is a good practice for myself as a writer. It keeps me writing every week especially when we do our lit circle letters. It is great to be introduced with blogger because I do not like to write by hand. Using Google docs is much easier for me to type up my blogs because one, I do not need to write it by hand, two, it is faster to type rather by hand, three, if you make a spelling error it will correct your mistake. When we do quick writes on variety topics like TED talks and pictures, it helped me with my speed of writing. Some of the TED talks were interesting to write about (keep it up Sutherland) like video games, technology, ect. But next year English class might suck for me because I wont be able to use writer's block in class, and I would probably be writing with hand again for in-class essays. It should be okay for me because I have increased the speed of my writing from the quick writes. Also, I won't be able to use blogger or Google docs in school because they are going to block it to prevent people from looking at sexual content. Since this is the last blog post, I would probably use writer's block in the future from big events I'm about to do. This summer I am having my third Vietnamese tournament and I am excited to earn more medals. I would blog about this in the future. I want to know if other people would still update their blogs.
10. Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?
This semester, I get all my blog post topics from events I went to, from watching TV, school,family,friends and martial arts. Like when I went to a Vietnamese New Years festival in San Jose (find out more here). It is my favorite time of the year because you receive lucky money in red envelopes. This year was the year of the tiger and last year was special because it was the year of the golden pig which comes like every 7 years. You get to play a Vietnamese gambling game with out getting caught because it is a Vietnamese tradition and cops can not do anything about it. I like to blog about what I do and the things I know I will do in the future. Like when I know I am going to have a martial arts tournament ahead of time I would blog about that, and it helps me figure out what to blog about next, instead of worrying about what to blog next. What inspires me to write about my topics are blogging about what I like to do. Some of these topics I blog about tells people what I like to do and subjects I like to do. Writer's block show people some perspective of what activity I currently do in daily life. For example, I love to snowboard, spend time with family, I take martial arts ect.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Maximum Ride Monthly Review
What part of the book surprised you? Why?
8.Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.
The book I am read Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson. Max had escape from the Itex from the scientist who are trying to kill her. In the beginning they went to see a sports game and later on they were being noticed by the humans and they saw them in the newspaper. So they had to get out of the place before the erasers try to get them. Sothe Erasers were some of the first to be destroyed and have been replaced by the new better Flyboys (robotic Erasers that can fly). There were issues when Max invites Ari to join the group, leaving Fang and half of the flock to split off in protest, with Max the leader of one group, and Fang the leader of the second. And in the midst of all this, Max eventually finds out who her real parents are. But she is stuck at a castle, fighting. Max beats off Omega (a young boy that is seemingly perfect). As they are fighting they notice how helpful Fang's blog could be.
There were two parts that surprised me while I read my book. One of them was when Max returned back to Ella's house because in the first book Max found Ella in trouble so max came to save her. She had to leave because Max had to go rescue Angel. When she had left Ella's house Ella's mom, Dr. Martinez said she could come back if she needed any thing. But she did not want to cause any trouble to return. Max came back to Ella's along with Fang to get any information on the chip that was planted in Max's arm. It was a good idea to return back because Max showed Dr. Martinez her wounded arm and scan an x-ray and found a chip in her arm. Dr. Martinez found a way to take it out with out damaging her nerves.
The second part was when Ari saved the flocks and Max wanted Ari to join the group. But Fang thought she was crazy because Ari tried to kill them like hundred times in the back in the past and she wants Ari to tag along. Fand did not want Ari to be with them so Fang and Iggy decide not to join them. They were separated for about a week or two and Ari is with Max, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel. Max and Fang feels like they do not need each other and Fang does not need Max in his life but Max feels left out flying without Fang being her wing man. Max's group head over to Germany because the head master of the Itex was located there. Later Fang received a message that Max needed him. He says,"So. Max wanted him back, eh? She didn't say weather she still had Frankenbirdy with her. If she did, Fang did not want any part of this."
Fang had checked his blog and max wrote him a message that their wasa lot of really bad stuff are going on in Germany. They were at the castle of the head of the Itex. Fang left the part of the flocks because Ari was with them and Fang did not trust him from after all the times he tried to kill the flocks. Fang should have trusted Max that Ari had changed and this part would not have happened. Fang has to get to Germany which is really far from where he is at and Max and her other flocks took a plane over to Germany. How is Fang going to end up way over there. He seemed to be lost when he read Max's Message. How was he going to get there, fly across the world to Germany? Fang better get there before Max is in big trouble with out his help. He wanted to know how bad the issue had occurred. He continues his blog that he still has a chance to save the world.
In the third series of Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Ari became an interesting character in my book. Ari is a 7 year old kid who is mean and thinks he is tough. Jeb is the father of Ari who raised him just like the flocks but not exactly the same. Jeb also mutated his son with the flocks except he didn't have wings. Ari is the leader of the erasers. He was trained to hunt down the flocks and "tries" to kill them. He is ordered to attack the flocks and take one of the flocks if he is told to do so. Ari also has a "thing" for Max that he is in love with her. There was part where Ari attacked the flocks at the beach. Max and Ari were fighting one on one chasing each other in the sky fighting. Ari fly's back down and Max attacks him sending him to the ground. Ari hits the ground ending up breaking his neck. But Ari came back alive in the third book which is weird when i found that out. In this quote he mentions about how he came back: "Uh-to make up for almost killing you back in New York?" Ari didn't look at me. "You did kill me," he said. "They brought me back. Fused some of the bones in my neck."
When I read in the book where Ari starts to come back it surprised me because Max killed him. I wondered how Ari came back but I knew that Jeb had revived him. It is kind of obvious that Jeb is most likely the only person who could bring him back to life. I did not know that Ari would come back but he did. Now I know how Ari got his neck fixed when Max killed him by the neck. How long did it take Jeb to fused some of Ari's bones back in his neck. It looks like Ari had changed since he saved the flocks and he starts to be more open. He tells Max more information she needs to know. What if Ari try to trick the flocks and bring them to a trap and all of this is a set up? Because the flocks were captured by the flyboys who are like erasers they do they erasers job and they are robots with guns attached to their hands, and Ari came by to rescue them. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a rap leading for the flocks.
8.Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.
The book I am read Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson. Max had escape from the Itex from the scientist who are trying to kill her. In the beginning they went to see a sports game and later on they were being noticed by the humans and they saw them in the newspaper. So they had to get out of the place before the erasers try to get them. Sothe Erasers were some of the first to be destroyed and have been replaced by the new better Flyboys (robotic Erasers that can fly). There were issues when Max invites Ari to join the group, leaving Fang and half of the flock to split off in protest, with Max the leader of one group, and Fang the leader of the second. And in the midst of all this, Max eventually finds out who her real parents are. But she is stuck at a castle, fighting. Max beats off Omega (a young boy that is seemingly perfect). As they are fighting they notice how helpful Fang's blog could be.
There were two parts that surprised me while I read my book. One of them was when Max returned back to Ella's house because in the first book Max found Ella in trouble so max came to save her. She had to leave because Max had to go rescue Angel. When she had left Ella's house Ella's mom, Dr. Martinez said she could come back if she needed any thing. But she did not want to cause any trouble to return. Max came back to Ella's along with Fang to get any information on the chip that was planted in Max's arm. It was a good idea to return back because Max showed Dr. Martinez her wounded arm and scan an x-ray and found a chip in her arm. Dr. Martinez found a way to take it out with out damaging her nerves.
The second part was when Ari saved the flocks and Max wanted Ari to join the group. But Fang thought she was crazy because Ari tried to kill them like hundred times in the back in the past and she wants Ari to tag along. Fand did not want Ari to be with them so Fang and Iggy decide not to join them. They were separated for about a week or two and Ari is with Max, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel. Max and Fang feels like they do not need each other and Fang does not need Max in his life but Max feels left out flying without Fang being her wing man. Max's group head over to Germany because the head master of the Itex was located there. Later Fang received a message that Max needed him. He says,"So. Max wanted him back, eh? She didn't say weather she still had Frankenbirdy with her. If she did, Fang did not want any part of this."
Fang had checked his blog and max wrote him a message that their wasa lot of really bad stuff are going on in Germany. They were at the castle of the head of the Itex. Fang left the part of the flocks because Ari was with them and Fang did not trust him from after all the times he tried to kill the flocks. Fang should have trusted Max that Ari had changed and this part would not have happened. Fang has to get to Germany which is really far from where he is at and Max and her other flocks took a plane over to Germany. How is Fang going to end up way over there. He seemed to be lost when he read Max's Message. How was he going to get there, fly across the world to Germany? Fang better get there before Max is in big trouble with out his help. He wanted to know how bad the issue had occurred. He continues his blog that he still has a chance to save the world.
In the third series of Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Ari became an interesting character in my book. Ari is a 7 year old kid who is mean and thinks he is tough. Jeb is the father of Ari who raised him just like the flocks but not exactly the same. Jeb also mutated his son with the flocks except he didn't have wings. Ari is the leader of the erasers. He was trained to hunt down the flocks and "tries" to kill them. He is ordered to attack the flocks and take one of the flocks if he is told to do so. Ari also has a "thing" for Max that he is in love with her. There was part where Ari attacked the flocks at the beach. Max and Ari were fighting one on one chasing each other in the sky fighting. Ari fly's back down and Max attacks him sending him to the ground. Ari hits the ground ending up breaking his neck. But Ari came back alive in the third book which is weird when i found that out. In this quote he mentions about how he came back: "Uh-to make up for almost killing you back in New York?" Ari didn't look at me. "You did kill me," he said. "They brought me back. Fused some of the bones in my neck."
When I read in the book where Ari starts to come back it surprised me because Max killed him. I wondered how Ari came back but I knew that Jeb had revived him. It is kind of obvious that Jeb is most likely the only person who could bring him back to life. I did not know that Ari would come back but he did. Now I know how Ari got his neck fixed when Max killed him by the neck. How long did it take Jeb to fused some of Ari's bones back in his neck. It looks like Ari had changed since he saved the flocks and he starts to be more open. He tells Max more information she needs to know. What if Ari try to trick the flocks and bring them to a trap and all of this is a set up? Because the flocks were captured by the flyboys who are like erasers they do they erasers job and they are robots with guns attached to their hands, and Ari came by to rescue them. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a rap leading for the flocks.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Summer Plans
This is the last free topic blog post of the school year with only 21 days until summer! I am going to blog about my summer plans. Well I do not really know what I am going to do this summer yet. I would go hang out my friends of course. I would like to go swimming but i don't know who has their own pool and i don't like going to the schools pool because it is crowed. I would probably go biking with my friends.
My sister, her friend, and i are trying to do new activities over the break. My sister wants to try out boxing with her friend and she asked me if i wanted to go and I was interested. This sounds like fun and it would help me with speed with my punches. I could practice with my sisters friend on sparing. In July I am having my Vietnamese Martial Arts tournament and boxing could help me a little with my sparing match. I am probably going to be nervous again. I am going to have two performances with a Vietnamese form and a sparing match. Last year i missed my form performances because I didn't know I was supposed to go the day before the tournament started. This time I have to do two performances. I need to practice my form and get a gold on both of them. I hope that i won't mess up, i have about two months to master these form and practice sparing.
My parents are planning to go to Hawaii for our summer vacation. They are not sure yet. My sister and I need to renew our passports at Costco which we need to do as soon as possible. I always wanted to visit Hawaii and the water looks so clean and clear. I might even learn how to surf or not. I would like to visit Vietnam again but my mom says we are going next summer. Every summer she says that and we don't and she said in two years we will go. I am really looking forward to this trip because my last visit was back in 2001 as a first grader. Really long ago, 9 years. In 2005, I saw the Vietnamese news channel and it changed a lot. I saw some English writing on the stores and they have coins or that's just me I probably don't remember 9 years ago.
In the mean while when summer starts I will sleep in and stay up a little late than usual. Sign up for gamefly again and rent some games i want to play. I would be playing a lot of video games and finish them in a few days. I'll probably try to attempt something crazy if I'm bored like last summer I attempt my first front flip in my house with pillows everywhere. It turned out okay but i have not mastered it yet, I need to work out on my landing which became a hard landing and i can't land softly. After school ends I wonder if anyone is going to keep blogging. At some point ill check my blog to see if anyone did.
My sister, her friend, and i are trying to do new activities over the break. My sister wants to try out boxing with her friend and she asked me if i wanted to go and I was interested. This sounds like fun and it would help me with speed with my punches. I could practice with my sisters friend on sparing. In July I am having my Vietnamese Martial Arts tournament and boxing could help me a little with my sparing match. I am probably going to be nervous again. I am going to have two performances with a Vietnamese form and a sparing match. Last year i missed my form performances because I didn't know I was supposed to go the day before the tournament started. This time I have to do two performances. I need to practice my form and get a gold on both of them. I hope that i won't mess up, i have about two months to master these form and practice sparing.
My parents are planning to go to Hawaii for our summer vacation. They are not sure yet. My sister and I need to renew our passports at Costco which we need to do as soon as possible. I always wanted to visit Hawaii and the water looks so clean and clear. I might even learn how to surf or not. I would like to visit Vietnam again but my mom says we are going next summer. Every summer she says that and we don't and she said in two years we will go. I am really looking forward to this trip because my last visit was back in 2001 as a first grader. Really long ago, 9 years. In 2005, I saw the Vietnamese news channel and it changed a lot. I saw some English writing on the stores and they have coins or that's just me I probably don't remember 9 years ago.
In the mean while when summer starts I will sleep in and stay up a little late than usual. Sign up for gamefly again and rent some games i want to play. I would be playing a lot of video games and finish them in a few days. I'll probably try to attempt something crazy if I'm bored like last summer I attempt my first front flip in my house with pillows everywhere. It turned out okay but i have not mastered it yet, I need to work out on my landing which became a hard landing and i can't land softly. After school ends I wonder if anyone is going to keep blogging. At some point ill check my blog to see if anyone did.
Maximum Ride last letter
"Uh-to make up for almost killing you back in New York?" Ari didn't look at me. "You did kill me," he said. "They brought me back. Fused some of the bones in my neck."
When I read in the book where Ari starts to come back it surprised me because Max killed him. I wondered how Ari came back but I knew that Jeb had revived him. It is kind of obvious that Jeb is most likely the only person who could bring him back to life. I did not know that Ari would come back but he did. Now I know how Ari got his neck fixed when Max killed him by the neck. How long did it take Jeb to fused some of Ari's bones back in his neck. It looks like Ari had changed since he saved the flocks and he starts to be more open. He tells Max more information she needs to know. What if Ari trys to trick the flocks and bring them to a trap and all of this is a set up?
"So. Max wanted him back, eh? She didn't say weather she still had Frankenbirdy with her. If she did, Fang did not want any part of this."
Fang had checked his blog and max wrote him a message that she needed him back because a lot of really bad stuff are going on in Germany. They were at the castle of the head of the Itex. Fang left the part of the flocks because Ari was with them and Fand did not trust him from after all the times he tried to kill the flocks. Fang should have trusted Max that Ari had changed and thiss part would not have happened. Fang has to get to Germany which is really far from where he is at and Max and her other flocks took a plane over to Germany. How is Fand going to end up way over there. He seemed to be lost when he read Maxs Message. How was he going to get there, fly across the world to Germany? Fang better get there before Max is in big trouble with out his help. He wanted to know how bad the issue had occured. He continues his blog that he still has a chance to save the world.
When I read in the book where Ari starts to come back it surprised me because Max killed him. I wondered how Ari came back but I knew that Jeb had revived him. It is kind of obvious that Jeb is most likely the only person who could bring him back to life. I did not know that Ari would come back but he did. Now I know how Ari got his neck fixed when Max killed him by the neck. How long did it take Jeb to fused some of Ari's bones back in his neck. It looks like Ari had changed since he saved the flocks and he starts to be more open. He tells Max more information she needs to know. What if Ari trys to trick the flocks and bring them to a trap and all of this is a set up?
"So. Max wanted him back, eh? She didn't say weather she still had Frankenbirdy with her. If she did, Fang did not want any part of this."
Fang had checked his blog and max wrote him a message that she needed him back because a lot of really bad stuff are going on in Germany. They were at the castle of the head of the Itex. Fang left the part of the flocks because Ari was with them and Fand did not trust him from after all the times he tried to kill the flocks. Fang should have trusted Max that Ari had changed and thiss part would not have happened. Fang has to get to Germany which is really far from where he is at and Max and her other flocks took a plane over to Germany. How is Fand going to end up way over there. He seemed to be lost when he read Maxs Message. How was he going to get there, fly across the world to Germany? Fang better get there before Max is in big trouble with out his help. He wanted to know how bad the issue had occured. He continues his blog that he still has a chance to save the world.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Rules of Love?
The rules that dictate the behavior of young men and women in relationships today could be their shyness. People now are probably scared or nervous to ask the person they like to be their boyfriend or girlfriend. If a guy is interested in a girl at school, he would most likely want to know her better. They would probably ask him/her to have lunch or hang out with them to get a sense how their personality is like. If a guy thinks the girl is cool to be with they would get to know their best friend so he could get more information on his lover. Some things I have heard from other people is that most of the time guys ask the girls out. How come the a lot of girls do not ask the guys out? Is it because the guys are suppose to be gentleman's all the time?
Some rules come from your parents or from TV shows. I have seen in TV shows that when a couple are on a date the guy pays for the first date. That is nice for the guys to do that which they should for their first date. When my family and I go out to eat at a restaurant my dad pays the bill but my mom always want to pay for the bill because he pays all the time. Some times girls should pay for dinner if they keep seeing the same guy.
If the rules are broken in a relationship like cheating it would be bad. It shows that the guy is probably tried of the girl and wants to know other girls then his lover. When there is young relationships in high school it might lead into sex. Girls could get pregnant if they have unprotected sex.
Some rules come from your parents or from TV shows. I have seen in TV shows that when a couple are on a date the guy pays for the first date. That is nice for the guys to do that which they should for their first date. When my family and I go out to eat at a restaurant my dad pays the bill but my mom always want to pay for the bill because he pays all the time. Some times girls should pay for dinner if they keep seeing the same guy.
If the rules are broken in a relationship like cheating it would be bad. It shows that the guy is probably tried of the girl and wants to know other girls then his lover. When there is young relationships in high school it might lead into sex. Girls could get pregnant if they have unprotected sex.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Maximum Ride 2
"The picture was of baby Gasman, with his telltale cowlick, being held by a women who looked kind of tired and washed out. The camera was focused on a wooden table, then a slip of paper lying on the table. It was a check. The name it was made out to was obliterated. The check was from Itex, for $10,000. His mother had sold him for $10,000 to the whitecoats at the school."(pg 147-148)
Reading the other books Max keeps finding pictures of themselves when they were younger. Where does she keep finding these pictures but not fang and herself. In the first book when they went to the institute, they found files on the flocks. Iggy tried to find his mom from the address but Ari was there. When she found more pictures in this book she must have kept the files with her maybe? Gasman must been happy to see his baby picture with his mom but she was under stress. When I read about the check for $10,000 I was surprised that Gazzy's mother sold him to the scientist at the school. That is messed up selling your own child to people you do not even know. But for $10,000 is a lot and she was stressed out so she probably had to take the offer and take a break from working. This makes me think if the flocks parents also had this kind of offer to them because they figured out that their parents gave them up to the whitecoats. If that happened to me I probably wound not take that offer and keep my child.
"Thanks, Max," Ari said when he was within earshot."You won't regret this, I promise. I'm going to keep you safe." (pg 162)
Before Ari thank Max. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a leading trap for the flocks.
Reading the other books Max keeps finding pictures of themselves when they were younger. Where does she keep finding these pictures but not fang and herself. In the first book when they went to the institute, they found files on the flocks. Iggy tried to find his mom from the address but Ari was there. When she found more pictures in this book she must have kept the files with her maybe? Gasman must been happy to see his baby picture with his mom but she was under stress. When I read about the check for $10,000 I was surprised that Gazzy's mother sold him to the scientist at the school. That is messed up selling your own child to people you do not even know. But for $10,000 is a lot and she was stressed out so she probably had to take the offer and take a break from working. This makes me think if the flocks parents also had this kind of offer to them because they figured out that their parents gave them up to the whitecoats. If that happened to me I probably wound not take that offer and keep my child.
"Thanks, Max," Ari said when he was within earshot."You won't regret this, I promise. I'm going to keep you safe." (pg 162)
Before Ari thank Max. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a leading trap for the flocks.
Judo Tournament
I had my judo tournament on April 18. The tournament was taken place at Alameda High School in the new gym. This was my first judo tournament I have been to and I could of went to the earlier tournaments but I did not want to. Instead I waited near the end of the school year for my judo tournament and we were required to go to at least one tournament. Usually I am nervous on my martial arts tournament. On my other Vietnamese tournament I got owned from sparing and this one I try to stay com and confident.
A few days before on a Friday after school both classes helped set up the tournament for Sunday and we got community service for. It became really tiring became we had to bring judo mats from the dojo to the table area where the back entrance to kofemen was. Each mat was probably about 15 pounds. In the dojo we took some of the mats out and it was so dusty underneath the mats. I had a lot of dust attracted to me while I was loading the truck. This process took about two hours including 5th and 6th period to transport the mats to the new gym. It took awhile to unload the mats off the truck. Then we set up the gym with four running mats while took awhile. After we were setting up the new gym the worse part was bringing out the 4 wheel dollys and back to the dojo. It took four people to bring out the 600 pound dolly out the door and down the stairs to the dojo.
The day of the tournament came. We had to come early at 7:30am to help. We paid for our entry and weight-in. Some people helped label the medals saying "PROF. JAY ALOHA INVITATIONAL JUDO TOURNAMENT". Our matches was going to take awhile and the tournament starts at 10:30am. We had to help the judges keep track of scores and pooling which is pairing up people in the same weight division in groups of 5. The beginning of the tournament was the little kids, teens, and the black belt division. I helped keep score for a few hours and chill with my sister.
Finally our tournament started to come at around 1pm. I waited with my friend Amir and we found out we were in the same pool. Which means i get to go against my friend. We were lucky to be in a pool with four people because it is faster and a better chance of wining a medal. I went against everyone in my pool and my first match was against Amir. I tried my best and stay com. The match started and I waited for him to grab me and as soon as he grabbed me I went for a throw but he tried to counter me. he almost got me and i fell on my butt but it didn't count. The opponet has to get the play on their back to win. The reff stopped us and start back in the middle. I grabbed him and tried to do a left sided throw to get him off guard but I did half of it and still got him on the ground. As he was on the ground I tried to choke him but the reff stopped us again. The third time I tried my throw again and I got him on his back and I won. My second match was against a yellow belt that i just found out after our match. I lost fast to this guy because he had more experience than me. So I did the first move with a foward throw but he countered me. My third match was really quick and it took about 10 seconds to win this one. I was against a talls person and before my matches I was examing his moves when he went up. I notice his legs were weak and off balance most of the time. When I went against this guy I tested out a small sweep and I got him off balance already so I went for a back sweep and got him down. I won 2/3 matches and got 2nd place. When the tournament ended we repeat what we did on Friday but backwards taking the mats back to the dojo.
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