day 10: 保定 (baoding) = 0km

Today I finally realized what 朱辉 had been talking about all this time:

Taekwondo! …for all I knew he could have specialized in some kind of weird shadowboxing dance or something.

Well, today we went to a competition in a middle school in Baoding and had a look:

I remember I used to have a friend in middle school who was into this sport… We never fought, only played ball and rode our bicycles around Bad Nenndorf. I wonder whatever happened to that friend…

This is 裴昊楠 (pei haonan): He is almost 13 years old, 39kg and wears the brown belt.

I asked him: “Did you lose or did you win today?” – “I lost, but I placed third!” he said.

“Where you nervous at all?” – “No, never!”

“Never ever?” – “Well, the very first time, I was nervous then!”

“And do you remember how you did back then?” – “I won!”

Maybe it would have been better for 裴昊楠 if he had been nervous today…

Soundtrack: Lokalmatadore – “El Lokalmatador”

—total: 184km