{"id":989,"date":"2019-07-20T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2019\/07\/20\/19\/989\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:05:07","slug":"wcos-event-best-of-the-best-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2019\/07\/20\/19\/989\/","title":{"rendered":"WCoS Event &#8211; Best of the Best 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I journeyed to Arata&#39;s Farm in Half Moon Bay for the annual Best of the Best tournament. At final count, there were 14 competitors this year,making for a long and somewhat gueling day (about 7 hours for the tournament, which started around noon, an hour late, and I had arrived around 8:30, an hour ahead of the requested arrival time). Head Kaiden Gad won first place with over a 90% win. My final tally is TBD. Generally, I had several very good matches, and I had some disappointing matches, but over all I felt good about the tournament and marshaling. I&#39;d still like to see the Western Circle learn more from other martial schools regarding good martialing techniques for tournaments in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I journeyed to Arata&#39;s Farm in Half Moon Bay for the annual Best of the Best tournament. At final count, there were 14 competitors this year,making for a long and somewhat gueling day (about 7 hours for the tournament, which started around noon, an hour late, and I had arrived around 8:30, an hour ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,5,10,33,6],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-botb","tag-event","tag-steel","tag-sword","tag-wcos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}