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It's funny, now that I think about it. That tournament is also where I was told some techniques after-the-fact that might have led me to win a match against a brown belt, who was not yet 18 and therefore we weren't technically in the same class. Our weight was about the same, but he was younger and had a lot more experience in Judo. He had also forgotten to bring his cup, so I agreed not to do certain throws. Most of the match was him trying to throw me, and my natural defenses being good enough that he couldn't quite manage it. And then I'd try to throw him and his trained defenses were much better. And so we would kind of drag each other down onto the mat, and that latter would continue -- his trained attacks weren't quite good enough to get through my natural defenses, and my attacks were not remotely close to good enough to get through his trained defenses. Ultimately, his training won out, because he knew of more ground attacks than I did, and he managed to get me into situations I couldn't get out of. And he did that three times in a row. After the match, my teacher told me if I had not attempted to attack but had instead gone more defensive, I probably could have changed tack and easily walked him out of the ring, which would have automatically caused him to lose. But then we agreed that wouldn't have been a very sporting win. Nevertheless, I was technically the winner of the heavyweight adult class in that tournament, simply by showing up. But it was fun doing a demo match with this brown belt, even though it didn't impact who won which weight class. Unfortunately, that was the only fun thing that happened at that Dojo. |