Speaking of Littlest

Since the post on my other blog concerns her attitude at age ten I thought this one could be about now. To be in this tournament took a 6 hour car trip plus sleeping in a hotel plus she also dropped weight and lost more than she should have.  She was performing without a coach because he could not make it. She went with only one supporting team mate who could only speak Portugese though he very helpfully waved his arms around and yelled stuff that sounded very encouraging. I'm not making excuses BUT- Her opponent lived in town. Was able to arise from her own bed and leisurely arrive. Lit's 1st fight was a 5 full minutes and she won. The girl she beat had to fight the third girl, who was fresh and won in about 2 minutes. So in the last fight this girl had basically had a warm up first and Lit had already been through a full fight. Her opponent was also very good. She was experienced and has been doing tournaments longer.  Littlest is usually extremely aggressive and strong. She wasn't on her best game. But she still wasn't submitted (automatic loss) it was close points wise and she was ahead during part of the fight. So when the going gets tough

                                      

                                                 The tough get a Silver Medal instead of a Gold

                                                                        and an attitude.


There is no telling this kid what an amazing job she did. She has only been doing this a year and a half and has 5 Gold Medals and a First place Sword. This is the biggest tournament she's been in so far. Second place is not good enough to her. In her opinion it's total failure. *SIGH*

At least she didn't yell out- I should have won, I worked harder ; )


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