Tae Kwon Do & Snowboarding

Yesterday the kids competed in the High Desert Tae Kwon Do championships. They were jointly held with the Oregon State gymnastics championships at the local county fairgrounds. Ethan won bronze medals in forms and sparring, Sydney won silver and bronze in forms and sparring, Miles earned bronze in forms.

Ethan's sparring match was pretty exciting. He was tied for points with the eventual gold medalist until he was briefly knocked out by a head shot with only 10 seconds left in the match. He was able to continue but could not land any more scores. He lost the match and the gold medal by 2 points. He was pretty groggy after that and lost the silver medal match pretty badly, but ended up with the bronze.

Today we went snowboarding, and it was pretty clear that Ethan was not fully recovered. There's a shot of him with a nasty crash off a pretty big jump.