Belgium Open Taekwondo 2012

The Belgium Open Taekwondo is the last of the big tournaments in march.  The setting in Gent is excellent. The sports hall is spacious and there is lots of daylight coming in. But even without daylight the area is perfectly lighted as my shutter speed did not go down when the day turned into night. The first day had a difficult start. Around 11:00 most fields had only run 9 matches.  With such a big delay the demonstration of the Korean team (even though it was a very impressive one) meant even more delay in the schedule.  Obviously the demonstration took some time but before it could start 4 competition areas had to be “broken down” and rebuild again afterwards. Possibilities of trying to minimize the delay were limited since only 4 area’s were equipped with video replay.  Practically this meant that in the end the 4 competition area’s were “fully loaded” while the other 6 were empty. At the beginning of the evening most the volunteers disappeared … there was little yellow remaining. I went home around 22:15 (the matches continued unil 23:30) arriving home just after midnight.  Uploading the pictures and get ready for day #2