The Loviisa Open opened the league season of domestic match competitions

Loviisa's competition has held its place year after year as the season's opening league competition in Finland. As usual, the Taekwondo athletes were there with a big and enthusiastic team.

A small, but hot team in the amateur series

In the morning, illness basically taxed the bigger team and finally Kaisla, Nooa and Teresa were seen on the field. Kaisla played a good and even match, but this time the opponent was slightly better. Nooa, on the other hand, was completely superior in his match, but a peculiar line of judges took Nooa's gold medal when Nooa received warnings from situation after situation, in which there would have been no place for a warning in Kouts' eyes. Noa was therefore fully warned even though he was in an overwhelming lead. Teresa won her opening match with accurate headers and thus cleared her way to the final. Unfortunately, the opponent was a few points better and Teresa had to settle for silver.

A good start to the season in the league series

In the afternoon, Taekwondo athletes were seen on all the fields at a steady pace, and Sampo, Petteri and Pauli, who acted as coaches, didn't bother to leave the fields much. Iines and Porvoon Juuli organized two almost back-to-back thrilling performances when they faced each other in the finals of the -33kg and -37kg cadet series. The first was scored by Juuli with a last-minute header, but in the second Iines showed how to score points through long kicking series and strong attacks. The result is a gold medal around Iines' neck. Venne stomped his own series with quite superior performances. Venne showed once again that when the foot is raised, a point is also taken with it. Janika, Plum and Sami all cleared their way to the finals, but the momentum of the day was not enough for victories. Everyone had the tactics well under control, but the execution still requires a little fine-tuning to turn these into wins. Alina and Aleksi tested their wings for the first time in the league series, and not at all with the craziest performances. Both were able to notice that their skills are quite sufficient even against tougher opponents, even though the opponents were still better on the scoreboard. Opening losses for Lauri, Luca and Kian as well, but really good matches too. Purposeful training begins to appear as confidence in one's own doing.

Technically, the team was in very good shape, but in training we still need to emphasize the ability to solve situations and the importance of the basic dune in building situations. Matches are won one situation at a time by sticking to your own tactics and being able to solve tight situations to your advantage. With these training fins, we will start building an even more efficient team for the Nurmijärvi Games.

All results

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