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Nishime Family Karate Research Paper

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A couple of summers ago I was preparing for the karate world championships in Ireland. Seven of us from Nishime Family Karate going on the trip and we had started training every day since mid March, trying to gain as much speed and strength our bodies would allow us. Our coach had put in a lot of his personal time to get us to this point and we were not about to fall short of his goal, We were having our last practice, running sprints, sparring, and lifting weights. That’s where everything turned white. After running sprints, we came inside to start squatting. While my teammates got the equipment out, I went in the bathroom to wash the sweat off my face. As I walked out of the bathroom, I heard my teammate, Trevor, say “Kaitlin watch out”, not even a second after that a forty-five pound barbell fell off the door frame and hit me right on the side of the head. I had this feeling of instant numbness, everything was in slow motion, and the only thing running through my head was “do not pass out”. Our team doctor told me I shouldn’t compete and needed to take it easy, however, we spent a lot of money to be able to go on the trip and I was not about to sit in the stands and watch everyone else compete. …show more content…

None of the other team coaches knew what had happened and I was determined to keep it that way. After a few divisions I started to notice something was off, I was no longer cheering with my team, I was very quiet, and my head was pounding. I had two divisions left, my weight class and open weight. I was with my coach waiting on deck for the quarter final fight, I told her what had happened the day before we got on the plane and “if I don’t get gold in this division, then I’ll fight in the open division”, to my surprise she didn’t argue with me and force me to sit out the remainder of the

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