| I totally agree with drallig. Competition is a great way to test your training and techniques against others who are not familiar with you. Many people don't want to compete or put down competition because they are simply afraid of failure.
We do several things to encourage the students at our school to compete. We have a seperate competition class one night each week, and we have really nice competition uniforms that only members of the competition team are allowed to wear. We also allow team members to wear those uniforms during our club tournaments.
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