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Interview 31/01/2013.
Nick: When did you first do a competition fight, what year? I know you said you were black belt at about fourteen so what year was your first competition fight? We’ll say at black belt.
Sensei Pete: I'd say probably one of my first competition fights was round about 1984.
Nick: So you’d be what, fourteen?
Sensei Pete: Yeah round about 1984. By the time 1986 came I was on the British National Team till round about 1999.
Nick: So you had a career with them that was what, thirteen years or so?
Sensei Pete: Yeah.
Nick: How many fights did you do for them in that time? Tournaments… Do they call them tournaments or competitions?
Sensei Pete: Competitions, tournaments, inter-clubs.
Nick: Right.
Sensei Pete: A lot of competitions, I can’t remember off hand.
Nick: Did you go abroad for them or were any of them just here? Were they just British or abroad as well?
Sensei Pete: Just British.
Nick: Right. Where were they held, were they in dojos?
Sensei Pete: Held in dojos, sports halls, various locations.
Nick: Right. What type of trophies are awarded?
Sensei Pete: There’s medals and trophies, obviously 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place.
Nick: Like in any other sport.
Sensei Pete: And obviously in any other sport, any athletics.
Nick: Is it the equivalent of bronze, silver and gold?
Sensei Pete: Yes, yes.
Nick: Do they work on a points system grade in the competition fights, how do they work to pick a winner?
Sensei Pete: Picked on points basically, strikes to the body. If you strike the body, that’s one point. When it gets to three points you win the competition.
Nick: That seems quite low, point count.
Sensei Pete: It depends on what association it runs under. Nowadays from 1970s to the year 2013 now, there’s thousands and thousands of associations and every association has different rules.
Nick: Right.
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