'Ave it!

Just got back from my first ever karate competition. (Yeah, b&w belt and never competed before. Sad or what? Not my choice, there haven't been many locally. ) A good experience, but...

Kata went okay. Lost in the first round, but as that was to the eventual winner (who's one of those people with mad skillz anyway), I didn't really mind. Knew I was going down as soon as I saw it was him... ^^;; Think I did alright on my own count, though. Well, my folks said I did, but they're not experts. I'll just trust that they weren't trying to butter me up.

The kumite - the fighting - though. Oh god.
Only two of us older girls in the competition, and sensei didn't want us going against the lads for whatever reason so just the one round. It went something like this.

Me: *dive in attack attack attack RAAH*
My opponent: *block block sneaky little attack underneath*
Me: *perfectly unharmed*
Judges: "Point goes to Blue!"
Referee (sensei): "Are you okay? Take that gumshield out... Breathe... breathe..."
Me: (thinking) I'd be okay if you just let me get back in the ring!

Repeat about ten times. I fight IRL the same way I fight in video games. And it doesn't work any better there either. v_v
No sour feelings towards my opponent, she beat me fair and square. And she's a green belt, too, but apparently she's managed to get a lot more experience fighting in her club. Good for her.
But I don't, as a rule, do Precious Fragile Little Flower routines very well. I don't mind being knocked about. So being stopped to make sure I was okay every ten seconds? Not cool. I was fuming when the match finally stopped. Gaaah.

Meme.

Sort of co-pinched off three different people on my f/list, so that's calaethis, agentrosecotton and eruantale_arte...
I probably should have combined this with my other post, but sorry ^^;;

My journal is called _____ because _____.
My friends page is called _____ because _____.
My username is ____ because _____.
My default userpic is _____ because_____.

-My journal is called H.B.'s Secret World because of two things. One, it's a term out of the Metroid games, it means a location outside of the game world. And as I'm a gamer geek there you go. Second reason, I like to think of this journal as somewhere I can get away to outside of my everyday world. And H.B.'s just my initials, nothing big.
-My friends page is called ...well, it doesn't have a special name... because I'm very uninspired and actually need to think of one.
-My username is Dragonchan because all my usernames, no matter what forum, what site, tend to have a dragon theme going on. It started with the Pern novels, but even though I stopped liking them, the dragon thing stuck. Think it describes me pretty well. Hell, I know I hoard enough junk and shiny things, and I've been known to have a draconic temper...
-My default userpic is an original character from a comic I'm making because it makes a change from the video game and anime icons that I've had in the past. Also, blame some really funky dreams.