Fall Tournament 2012

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Today I went to Toronto and went to Shihan's house to train. I woke up at 6:30 and got in John's car. John is my sempai. And one of my senseis were in the car too. When we got to Shihan's house, Daniel who is Shihan's son, trained us. I practiced pinan katas. Then we did sparring techniques. We trained for 3 hours and then we went to Subway for lunch. I got a chicken sub with a root beer and a cookie. Then we drove all the way back to Collingwood. It took 2 hours each way. We are going to do that every Saturday this summer.

This is me getting my brown belt!
I just got chosen to go to Japan for a karate world championship for July 2013. I will go to Toronto and stay with my grandma for a week and train every day at the JCCC. I am very excited because I will get to compete internationally and have a trip to Japan with my family. Also, I can learn how to speak Japanese. That will be cool! My parents lived there for 5 years so they taught me a few words like konichiwa, gancky desca, and gambate but it's pretty hard to learn.