Direkt zum Hauptbereich

Event Report: WKF National Championships 2012, Villach

So on saturday I competed in the WKF national championships 2012. Took silver in the -71kg full-contact kickboxing division. Overall, our team did pretty well, in terms of medals:



The results
Thomas ReissShinergy[liesing]Semi-Contact MASTERS (+35years)Silver
Frank ZaunerShinergy[zone wien]Semi-Contact -75kgGold
Semi-Contact -86kgBronze
Andreas MehicShinergy[stadlau]Semi-Contact YOUTH +71kgSilver
Light-Contact YOUTH +71kgBronze
Lukas PezenkaShinergy[stadlau]Full-Contact -71kgSilver

 


        My 2 cents
Not too shabby in my opinion, especially considering the fact we're note even kickboxers. Still, I'm not really satisfied. Should have taken gold. Got knocked out by my own fault in the finals. Did a stupid beginner's mistake. On a whole, though, I really can't complain - after all, I've won my first full-contact fight. Hence, regardless of the finals, I've scored quite a big personal success. Also, I found that there's really no place for me in the -75kg division. The guys in the -71kg division were all about my height, so those range disadvantages I've been suffering from in so many of my fights were no issue whatsoever this time.

 

            Further plans
So today, the situation looks like this: I've scored silver in light-contact at the austrian open back in april. Now, a full-contact placing was added. Not exactly sure yet, but I guess that gives me a place on the national team for both events (LC + FC) at the upcoming world championships in Varazdin. So, if my budget allows it, I'll probably make the trip to croatia in july.

            More to come
So now I've got a couple of weeks before I get back into the ring again. Therefore, I'll make haste and catch up on commenting the fights from the austrian open. Once I've done that, I'll add those from the national championships, so there's plenty of stuff coming up in the near future - stay tuned!

So long,

take care



Labels:

Kommentare

Kommentar veröffentlichen

Beliebte Posts aus diesem Blog

Happy new year

I wish you all a happy new year. Photo by camera slayer, found on flickr.org For me, the year won't start particularily good, I guess. On january 7th, the doc will put my foot into plaster again. This time, it's 4 weeks. After that, we shall see further. Now on the one hand, this is significantly screwed up. Gone are my plans of doing a max strength program to begin the year. Also, as a professional trainer, not being mobile at the beginning of the year means a serious handicap to my marketing actions. Novembet through February are, after all, the best months for any sports school, finance-wise. Also, I need to make up for all the losses my second studio has produced over the last year anyways. Instead of recovering financially, I'll now have to pay an instructor to teach my classes. Great. Not to mention all my plans of offering more classes at my Dojo. They're most definately put on a halt at the moment. As you can see, from a business point of view, my situation is s...
Kommentar veröffentlichen
Mehr anzeigen

Thoughts on S&C: Assess, don't guess - Athletics @ Shinergy[base] Vienna

  Disclaimer: This one's going to be a bit lengthy, so I tried to include as many videos as possible to keep things fresh.  Since December, 2014, I'm in charge of the athletics class we run at the Shinergy[base] here in Vienna. In a nutshell, the athletics class is pretty much a functional strength class for small groups. In contrast to other systems out there (which all have their benefits in their own sense), out athletics class follows a simple periodization and is preceded by an individual assessment of each athlete. Our assessment usually doesn't take as long as, say, a full [FMS] , but then again, we screen for the selection of exercises we're actually planning on employing in the current program. This means that, although it might be beneficial for general health or long-term improvement of a functional movement base, there is no pressing need to screen for overhead competency if the plan calls for a horizontal upper body push. We can ḱeep our initial screens...
Kommentar veröffentlichen
Mehr anzeigen

PUT Opole Open 2015, Part I

So over the next couple days I'll post the videos of our fights at the Opole Open 2015. I have to say, the [PUT] people really did a good job on organising the event, and while international participation was a bit lower than usual, the level of competition was awesome. What I like most is the non-dogmatic approach these guys take. Most schools offer both Taekwondo and Kickboxing, some also do other styles such as MMA or even Krav Maga. As long as they adhere to the rules, everyone's welcome to fight. Contrast this with the rivalry and bad blood that dominates the martial arts world here in Austria. For example, I've once witnessed all participants of the [WKF] being barred from entrance to the [OEBFK] national championships due to inter-federation rivalry. Needless to say, the level of competition suffers from stuff like that. Now you could argue that the situation in Poland is different in that there's no competing federations from the same style involved. ...
Kommentar veröffentlichen
Mehr anzeigen