2nd day in taipei

Man i just typed a whole half post and then it accidentally got deleted now i have to start again.

today was the first day of competition and for many of the Junior Aussies it was a very big wake up call to what international level competition is all about.
Many of the Aussies placed today but from Canberra Sara collins had a few tough fights but ended up losing 2 fights and winning one to get third place.
Hopefully this secures her spot for the Junior world champs in a few months time.

Today we woke up nice and early around 630am and went and weighed ourselves. I was dreading a little bit my weight but i have been watching everything i have been eating and ended up weighing only 62.5kg.

We went off to training this morning and wearing my sauna suit underneath my gi after training i weighed around 61.7kgs. I still don't fight for another 2 more days (on Sunday) so obviously you dont want to be dehydrated all tonight and all day tomorrow so this close to competition i just try to make sure i eat as little solid food as possible and fill up mostly on fluids.

This is because food can stay in your stomach for a few days while if you are full of fluid you can just sweat in out at training and a small stint in the sauna. Today i have had a piece of toast and 1 frozen coke and 2 caramel frappes from Starbucks, and man are they so yummy.

due to the weather being really humid here i try to drink stuff that takes a while to drink and that is stacked full of carbohydrate. So you can have 500ml of water with no energy content at all or you can have 500ml of yummy caramel crushed ice with a bit of caffeine in it to fill you up and because it takes 10-15 minutes to drink it will cool down your body temp quite nicely.

Tonight my roomy and i will probably just hang out and watch a movie or so, we watched never back down last night as well as some ufc all access videos too.

Also on a more important note (kind of) i got my draw given to me the other night. and its a good one....

i drew Indonesia first round and they aren't to strong so if i can get through him i will be fighting the winner of Macao and Chinese Taipei in the semi final. Japan and Korea are both on the other side of the draw to me so i hopefully wont fight them to the final.

but first off is Indonesia, ill worry bout the others later.

If i can figure out how to post some videos i will post 2 nice throws i was lucky enough to film today

Now off to relaxing and some study
Have an awesome day
Matt