by Charly Tsai
For the first time a Taekwondo competition was held at NTU. The games were based onfriendship and were just for fun so there really wasn’t anything to win. The only thing tobe gained was more experience for the National College Cup in May. Our entire school teamwas in the competition since most of them are beginners, this way they could learn and letour coach see how to improve their skills. Even though I have been a contestant since I was a freshman, I had to be there too,since it was an order from the coach and I couldn’t say no. An order is an order, so evenif I didn’t get a good night’s sleep before the competition I still had to be there. All Iknew was that I would have two opponents, both of whom were new this year. They wanted tocompete with me because they wanted to see how it would go in May. It was their first timeto compete since they started to train. We were all in class 8, which is 70kg and up. Ifelt it was not really fair since both of them were only around 75-80 kg while I was likean elephant compared to them. But according to our coach it was a good thing for me, sincethey needed to use all their power if they wanted to get any points at all. To get a pointyou have to kick above the belt of your opponent and it also has to sound like you areclapping your hands. So there I was in the first round fighting against a contestant fromMingchuan University; she had yellow belt and wanted to test her fate for the first time.She came into the ring and started to scream trying to scare me away; if this had been myfirst time maybe I would have been scared, but since it was my seventh competition I justlet her scream like an idiot. She screamed and came forward but I didn’t take her assomeone I should be afraid of, so I gave her a kick. Her expression said something like"What? Where did that kick come from?“ Maybe it was because I had trained for solong or because I was playing around with her. She got more and more angry and started tocry out even louder. During the second round I started to realize that I shouldn’t playwith her too much, and the coach said I should pretend she’s just a board, kick her withall my might and then see if she would dare to scare me any more. But since it wassupposed to be a friendly competition I let her do whatever she wanted but I repaid her bynot giving her the chance to score any points at all. I wanted to be cruel instead ofbeing tough. I gave her what she deserved, which was to allow her no rest at all. Even ifit would tax my energy, I didn’t care. With a score of 7-0 I came away the winner. a
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