High school shiai (university invitational)

Today I spent the whole day at yet another university invitational shiai for high school students (it’s that time of year!). I got up at 6am and was greeted with a cold and rainy Osaka morning. Jamming a banana in my mouth, I bought a coffee at the nearby convenience store and headed over to Kyoto.

As usual, the day went as follows:

– warmup
– opening ceremony and morning shiai (preliminary rounds)
– lunch break and another warmup
– knock-out rounds
– godogeiko with university students and graduates

Of the different type of shiai I attend, I much prefer these invitational ones to “official” shiai because of the always-included (if short and frantic!) godogeiko session at the end.

Anyway, please enjoy the video clips and gallery:

Gallery:

Warmup

Warmup

Shiai

Shiai

Shiai

Trophies

Trophy close up

Shiai

Shiai

Godo keiko