{"id":209,"date":"2007-06-30T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/2007-world-tae-kwon-do-championships\/"},"modified":"2007-06-30T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:36:54","slug":"2007-world-tae-kwon-do-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/2007-world-tae-kwon-do-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 World Tae Kwon Do Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/object2\/214\/108\/n2516201248_904.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/><br \/>\nHad a great day today went to the National Indoor Arena to watch the 8th Open Tae Kwon Do World Championships. The event started a little later than scheduled due to the vast number of competitors taking part this year. By the end of the day we had seen a number of World Champions crowned in the Musical Patterns as well as the  Singles and Team Sparring and WTF formats.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>I enjoyed the day, realised how much I miss participating in open competitions so it all felt a little bitter sweet. The level of competition was extremely high which was to be expected given that there were almost thirty countries represented. Plus I caught a glimpse of the incomparable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagb.biz\/schools\/dorsettkd\/becky.html\">Becky Riggs<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I managed to record a few of the fights on my N73 which I&#8217;ve uploaded to YouTube, here&#8217;s one of them:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Wyeimj-GfvY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Wyeimj-GfvY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>All in all it&#8217;s been a really enjoyable day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great day today went to the National Indoor Arena to watch the 8th Open Tae Kwon Do World Championships. The event started a little later than scheduled due to the vast number of competitors taking part this year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/2007-world-tae-kwon-do-championships\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[122,402,123],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma","tag-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-nia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}