10/4/2008The gallery for this can be found here. http://moy-photo.com/taikai
This was the first ever North American Taikai (tournament) for Shorinji Kempo in the United States. Its been here for near 40 years and finally we have one. I've been a practioner for 5 years and decided this was a great event for WSKO history. My girlfriend took some of the pictures but when I was not competing I took the camera back into my hands. I got some very good sparring pictures. I actually had to rely on my Canon 40D on this for pure speed.
Lighting wasnt too great in the gym either, pretty standard florescent lights but definitely not bright enough. I had to shoot near ISO1600 and clean it up in post production. Never the less pictures came out good. But it looked like everyone had a great time and no injuries with all the competition!
Lighting wasnt too great in the gym either, pretty standard florescent lights but definitely not bright enough. I had to shoot near ISO1600 and clean it up in post production. Never the less pictures came out good. But it looked like everyone had a great time and no injuries with all the competition!
Next taikai will be next year in July in Indonesia. Should be very interesting.
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