I had a pretty interesting experience. I learned martial arts for while and got confident enough that I went to a special tournament. It would be held on a resort island compete with some ancient ruins. It seemed like there would be no way I could go, but my Uncle (who is an electrician) sponsored me to go.
When I got there it was not really what i was expecting. The whole thing was being put on by this pretty old looking guy who had a couple screw loose. But there was not turning back now, even if i wanted to, I was basically stuck. It also became apparent pretty quick this weird event had attracted some odd ball competitors too, ill get to this later.
So the rules of the tournament were pretty basic a best 2 out of 3 with single elimination. The matchups were supposed to be random and who ever was left would go onto to fight the house champion. It became apparent after a while the head guy and the champion had something going on.
My first matchup was against a woman who seemed pretty talented and flexible. She tried to have me throw the match since she said needed to go further to investigate illegal activity. I came this far I wasnt just going to flop over. Well i was able to come up on top and get the next round, didnt see her around after that. It was too bad she was cute.
Now there were other matches and lets say there seems to be some bending of the rules, some of which scared me a bit. Basically some matches were uses weapons or gimmicks to intimidate. Like this one guy tried to bull whip his opponent. One guy some how got snowballs (maybe closer to packed ice) in. One lunatic even tried to pull a knife.
Next round was against some inflated ego manic, acted like everyone should know him. I thought about it later and though I remembered him from some made for tv movie or something.
Well he couldnt back up his talk with his technique and I won the round again. The real wierd thing was at the end of my second round the old guy (acting all weird) striaght up and yells finish him.
Didnt really know what that was about and i went on my way to get ready for the next go, I was getting near to the finals.
Well I was in for a surprise the next round, my wacked out uncle somehow entered the tournament. but he isnt quite the fighter he used to be at his age. But it was all good in the end and i think we bonded at the end.
So now i made to the final round and it was against the wack job with the whip. He also had this real tacky yellow uniform. Well I knew he was going to pull that whip trick so as soon as he threw that thing (if you can believe he yelled 'get over here') around i ducked and gave me the biggest upper cut. The idiot flew off his feet knocked clean out. Couldnt even make it to the second round.
I couldnt believe i won this crazy thing, but now I got to have go at that behemoth of man, if he was a man. He was pretty slow and so I used my quick evasive abilities and wore him down. He got a couple grabs in and tossed me about (it was like he had 4 arms), but it wasnt enough. I floored him with a flying kick id been working on as my trump card.
The old man was over the edge with this and went into a fury. I wouldnt normally fight some one so old but the geezer ran down into the arena and attacked me. So I defended well enough against the first round of attacks and then I countered and knocked the old guy out. Everyone seemed pretty shocked at the whole thing.
Well I had enough weirdness and I tol my uncle lets get of here before someone gets upset about the old guy getting knocked out. On the way back my uncle tells me the tournament will be held again next year and theres bound to be more competitors to test my skill against. At this point I dont think I can take experiencing something like that again.
