Sparring 2019 S.E.T. Championships

Before I tell how T did let me give you a backdrop to how he ended up where he did. In T’s division there are weight groups that they can Fin, Fly, Middle, Heavy. T is a Fin weight. In the group they placed T to fight in there was one other fin weight and one Fly weight and one middle weight. Those groups should not have been placed together but they were. T won his fight against the other Fin weight easy 20-3. His second match was with a middle weight kid. T was doing pretty good against that kid until.....The kid did a head shot on T that landed him on the ground (score at that point was 16-19 and T was down by three and the match ended 20-29). Junior safety rules for youth means light head contact. That was no light head contact. The middle weight kid should have been disqualified but instead was allowed to continue on. T chose to finish the match and got kicked several more times to the head making an already bad situation worse. So when he came off the floor he was shaking, dizzy, and his head hurt really bad. The medic came back over again checking T out a second time (because she checked him after the initial fall) saying he has a minor concussion and said he can no longer fight. It’s double elimination so because T wasn’t allowed to continue he brought home Bronze. As a competitor he wanted to continue but once the medic says no more you are done. Bottom line is he should have never been fighting someone two weight divisions up from him. It’s unifortunate, because we like Master Kim, but we won’t be returning to this event seeing as they can’t separate the weight groups any better than they did. We are proud of T though because he did his best, fought hard, and did all that his coach was asking of him. His coach and him realize they have some stuff to really work on in the weeks and months ahead. But T won’t be in this situation again because all his competitions will be strictly divided up into proper weight divisions and he won’t be fighting kids two weight divisions up.  So T brings home Bronze in midst of a bad situation. 

The medic has us keeping a close eye on him and gave us a sheet telling us of other symptoms to watch out for. A few days of. rest and he should be able to go at it again provided he doesn’t have any more symptoms. Right now he seems to just have a bad headache.