Paul Kaminski fought on November 25th in the All-Japan Tournament held in the Saitama Super Area in Saitama, Japan. This tournament draws some of the strongest fighters in Japan and Kaminski, having only been training for a little over a year, found himself dangerously outclassed. His opponent outweighed him by 40 pounds, had been training for a decade, and placed in the best-16 in last year's All-Japan tournament. That said, Kaminski defended himself beautifully (and fought back gallantly) and we are extremely encouraged by his prospects for the future. Kaminski had a heroic performance in a tournament two months ago in Rochester, NY (see link above right) coming so close to matching a young-fighter there that the crowd knew well and had been training and winning competitions for several years. As a result, he finally got a taste of the fact that he's getting strong enough to win some of these fights we take him to. Indeed the norm for him, until now, has been to be defeated when the fight starts to hurt him long before his ability to continue fighting to where he might turn the fight around has been exhausted. In short, he's lacked confidence, and what we saw in this month's tournament in Japan (you can see it in his face in these photos) is that he's finally starting to move past that stage and keep the fight coming right up until the end. This of course is a major step towards advancing to where he starts to win. Rome was not built in a day, but all BKH residential students are expected to attempt to build Rome in regards of their ability to fight and win fights.

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