So I have been stuck at a karate tournament for the last two days. Here are some memorable moments from this time.

A kid did Kata to the Black Parade

A 8-9 year old is better at handling a sword than me

Watch children fight each other

A family got mad at me cause I didn't "put down the right points" for their child - spoiler alert, I did

Watched several of my students do their sparring, and am incredibly proud of all of them

Watched a Venezuelan and a Puerto Rican duel it out for 1st place

Right after they demolished 4 other boys in sparring

Watched a short kid beat down a tall kid

Some guy actually spoke in Japanese before his Kata

Watched one of my students take place in his first international competition

Saw some amazing karate stunt groups perform on stage

Watched toddlers perform master level katas

Witnessed people get kicked out of the ring area because they interfered with the sparring by yelling too loud

A coach got mad that the system randomized fights

When a kid doesn't have a competitor we find one from the crowd for them to still have a fight. They however default to 1st place

The 1st place metals were Texas shaped

Cobra Kai is so so funny to me, an actual junior black belt, because it is ABUNDANTLY obvious that none of the writers have ever been to an actual karate tournament—how come these kids are doing full-contact point sparring without gear? (That’s illegal) What is up with the ranking system, are there no skill classes? (There are at least 4 skill classes at every tournament: beginner, novice, advanced, and black belt, yet everyone in the show is magically a black belt ONLY at the AVT) HOW the FUCK is an accidental elbow to the face considered illegal contact but breaking a kid’s nose isn’t considered excessive force? (The rules are insanely inconsistent. Like, Miguel was given 30 minutes to come back post-injury in S4 but calling a medic to check Hawk in S5 was a forfeit) Why is BOARD BREAKING in the same division as weapons? How come there’s only ONE point judge/referee? Why did they make separate gender divisions but not age divisions? WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE TOURNAMENT IN THE ENTIRE CIRCUIT?

IISM congratulates Sartha Chawan for winning gold medals at the Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Tournament

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New Date For Our Martial Arts Tournament is July 15 2023

God I’m just thinking. And ugh, the Jedi’s martial arts must have been amazing. They had seven distinct styles, passed down over a thousand generations, by uncountable lineages.

Every lineage must have had their own katas, their own training methods and distinct variations on the forms. There were probably inter-lineage feuds on what type of sparring they taught, variations on specific katas, which techniques were acceptable in sparring, anything. You KNOW those High Republic Outpost Jedi must have created new styles that were gradually subsumed into the 7 forms.

What would a Jedi Tournament have looked like? Were there ones for specific forms, like Soresu-only competitions? Did they have some kind of point sparring? Was there an endurance/blocking division? How would they have measured Force abilities in a tournament setting? How did they score?

In conclusion, SHOW ME THE SECRET JEDI MARTIAL ARTS LORE LUCASFILM

C’maahn I’m just a little guy, I’m just a little guy, noo, it’s also my birthday, I’m a little birthday boyy

He went FULL princess with the singing birds and sparkly eyes. “Hate you? My God, I could never.”

Picture him saying this to Daniel…

Round 1 of preliminaries, group 2

The first two places get a place on the bracket

Little reminder: there will be 2 more rounds of preliminaries, the losing blorbos of this poll still have 2 chances of getting in the official bracket

Propaganda under the cut

Jessica Day (New Girl)

"She brakes for birds, she watches her favourite movie several times when upset, she is more comfortable at home than at the club, she struggles with being flirty, she's a geek, her humor isn't always understood by others, and she's in love with Nick Miller."

Daniel LaRusso (Karate Kid)

"Man... he has represented every bullied kid just wanting to prove themself since the 80s. I can relate to him coming from a single parent family, starting a new school and struggling to fit in. He kind of makes things worse for himself too by retaliating and trying to stand up for himself and pulling pranks without using his goddamn brain. He just has the worst luck constantly. Gets on the wrong side of the high school bad boys on day 1. Gets a crush, turns out it's the ex of the leader of the bad boys. Wants to learn karate to try and defend his scrawny ass, the only karate class in town is where ALL the bad boys learn. That's how being a teenager feels. In the end he ends up kicking their asses and proving himself. I guess that's how we all want to feel. Also the first thing he does when he moves into a new place isn't sort out his luggage or anything. He fills a bowl of water for a dog outside. Me too kid. Me too."

Omota Uramichi (Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan)

"He's extremely tired dead inside all the time for extremely relatable reasons such as annoying colleages and bosses, dreams not working out, being stuck in a job he doesn't really like, and just adult life being a bitch. But even so, he still has to keep up a happy facade."

Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown)

"- He's a gifted kid who doesn't get taken seriously despite having some clear skill - So fucking gay it's unreal - He wants validation so badly dude - Alternative fashion icon - Autism beast - Trans in my heart (but he's canonically respectful of people's preferred pronouns so even if he isn't, yes king)"

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid)

"number 1 princess in the whole world"

Eichi Tenshouin (Ensemble Stars)

"gay"

some friendly sparring that's all

i talk a lot about jhumkas for someone who has worn the same studs for tge last 12 years

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This is probably what Terry looks like right about now..

I hope that he's gonna get outta there and get involved with the sekai taikai. It was his initiative after all!!

Thomas Ian Griffith as Brandon Miller in Time Cop 2 : The Berlin decision circa 2003.

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Platinum Bracket: Round 1, Poll 7

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Heather Chandler

Manipulative queen! She’s mean and bitchy and rules the school as a junior! So mean and bitchy the edgy kid poisons her! Red is her color!

Johnny Lawrence

Classic sad mew mew garage puppy man . He is such a whiney blonde bitch in Karate Kid(I love him), and in Cobra Kai, which takes places years and years later, he is still a blonde bitch but a tad less whiney and more agressive, but with a good heart xD what more could you want?

cobra kai: karate is partly a metaphor for sex and burgeoning sexuality and identity

cobra kai: due to not being allowed to show men hitting women/boys hitting girls, everyone gets a same-gender karate nemesis + only seriously fights people of the same gender

cobra kai: wait... did we make everyone gay?

“Your hair is ridiculous, y’know that?”

Johnny scoffed, flicking his fringe from his eyes and subsequently, from Daniel’s teasing fingers.

“Says you. Look at your fluffy monstrosity.” The blonde brought a hand up to demonstrate just what he was talking about, running idle fingers through Daniel’s hair.

It was no secret that he absolutely adored said fluffy monstrosity, loved running his fingers through it and watching the way it lit up when the sun caught it in the early morning. But he had pretences to keep up.

Daniel didn’t pay much mind to the fingers in his hair, merely going back to trying to brush Johnny’s fringe away from his eyes with an overly concentrated look.

The blond was content to let his boyfriend do whatever he was trying to do, bringing his own hands to rest on Daniel’s hips once more and wait him out.

They were sitting in the back of Johnny’s car in a parking lot just above the beach, having just spent an entire day together goofing off and just generally hanging out. It wasn’t a typical date but it was pretty good considering it was the 80’s, and they were both happy just being able to be with one another.

They had decided to stay out a while longer, hanging out in the back Johnny’s car and talking about nothing at all. They had been making out and it had been getting good, but Daniel sometimes got sidetracked (even during those moments) and hence, his sudden fascination with Johnny’s hair.

“How does it stay so perfect? Even during the tournament your hair was still perfect after every round.” Johnny smirked, raising a brow as he poked Daniel’s side.

“Didn’t know you were looking that closely Larusso.” Daniel shrugged, too distracted to puff up with his usual challenge at Johnny’s words.

“Well I didn’t fall in love with you over night Lawrence.” Those words pulled the blond up short, eyes going wide as he stared up at his stupidly pretty boyfriend.

Daniel didn’t even seem to register what he had said, too busy squinting and bringing both hands up to hold Johnny’s fringe back from his eyes. Johnny must have looked a sight cause the Jersey teen suddenly had that adorable little quirk to his mouth, crooked teeth biting at his bottom lip and eyes squinting with a smile.

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