If you are enjoying yourself and can think 'hey, I may finish bottom but at least I'm taking part' then go for the beginners' competition in February. In truth, what have you really got to lose?
Go with the aim to have fun and get a feel for how you are doing and anything else is a bonus.
I'm not massively bothered about coming last, I regularly end up on the losing end of bouts and it doesn't stop me fighting the same person again the next week!
In that case I definitely say 'go for it'. You have nothing to lose and you could have a lot of fun and who knows you could do far better than you expected. Plus, you get experience of competition - which is always a plus.
Yep, it'll definitely mean variety, that's for certain. I guess the problem is that I'm going in blind, since I haven't seen what they consider to be 'beginner' standard and could how I measure up to that.
You should go. It will give you the experience and let you see what you are doing well and what you need to improve and practice with people you don't practice with all the time.
That's what I did when I was competing. Started competing as a yellow belt and lost more then won but I got better by the time I was competing at the Black belt level and knew the way competitions worked so didn't have that to deal with ;-)
I guess it's not really having a benchmark that's throwing me off a bit - if I go and everyone else in the beginners section is so much better than me, I'll feel a bit of a prawn... I think I'll have a chat with one of the coaches tonight and see what he thinks, as he might have a bit more idea.
From personal experience, I mucked up my shoulder last year just before our club sparring tournament, which would have been my last time to compete as a red belt. For this coming year's tournament I'll be in the black belt category, which just seems so much more intimidating. (Even though it'll be a lot of the same people.)
The consensus opinion here seems to be 'go for it', which probably shouldn't surprise me at all.
I think I'd feel a bit more confident if our competition wasn't so close to that one but also because I haven't seen these people fight and my idea of 'beginner' may be wildly different to theirs!
Well, one thing if I go for it is that I can stay and watch the intermediate category and then I'll at least have a benchmark for future years and how much better I need to get to have a chance against them in 2018...
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Go with the aim to have fun and get a feel for how you are doing and anything else is a bonus.
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That's what I did when I was competing. Started competing as a yellow belt and lost more then won but I got better by the time I was competing at the Black belt level and knew the way competitions worked so didn't have that to deal with ;-)
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Oh, and we should catch up some time, I guess? ;)
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From personal experience, I mucked up my shoulder last year just before our club sparring tournament, which would have been my last time to compete as a red belt. For this coming year's tournament I'll be in the black belt category, which just seems so much more intimidating. (Even though it'll be a lot of the same people.)
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I think I'd feel a bit more confident if our competition wasn't so close to that one but also because I haven't seen these people fight and my idea of 'beginner' may be wildly different to theirs!
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