I DID IT!

wow, its now monday night and 24 hours ago i was in one of the most testosterone-fuelled fights of my life. nationals went well i had a bye first round, won my next fight with uchi mata(which is a monumental moment and worthy of it's own blog entry) and won the semi final by throwing the fella for wazari with uchi mata (again i know!) and then choking him.
the final.......... my game plan had been to grip fight my butt off, pressure my opponent and get as many shidos on him as possible. i was breaking even on grips and not dominating how i wanted and we both got a shido for not engaging. We engaged in some attacks that ended up off the edge of the mat and instead of walking past me back to his line my opponent decided to get in my face and try a bit of a stare down, i didn't flinch and the line in the sand had been drawn so to speak. after another minute or so i managed to lock down one side and was looking for a reaction to drop under for sumi gaeshi. the referee's penalised me for one-sided grip and not him for dropping to his knees. after some more gripping me both got shido's and it was yuko for me wazari against and i was in a bit of trouble, another shido and i was disqualified. that realisation triggered something in my brain because the next time i got a grip i dragged him along and launched into a drop seio that planted him flat on his back. considering i was planning on not committing into a single full fledged attack in the whole fight because of my bad shoulder this was unexpected!
I couldn't celebrate straight away because the side judge froze and neither signalled that the throw was inside or outside the fighting area so i walked back to the line hoping one of the referee's would make the bloody call, i heard a bit of a noise from the crowd and saw that the ref commission had walked to the side of the mat, that meant one thing, they thought the throw was valid.
When the center referee came back and signalled my ippon i was ecstatic!!!

I won't get into the lack of sportsmanship that followed but i will say that if i provoked any of it i am sorry i was caught up in the emotion of it all.

AFTERMATH.........
Well my shoulder hurts like hell and i will get some more scans this week and find out what sort of rehab i will need to do. hopefully couple of easy weeks and i'll be right to train my butt off for Oceania, NSW Open, Miami World Cup, US Open and the Worlds (all in 1 month aug-sep)