Father's Day Weekend 2013

It's a pretty action packed weekend. My bro graduated this Saturday. He's already got a bachelors in kinesiology and now a degree as a physical therapy assistant. The graduates today had a ton of energy.

After the ceremony we went straight to the academy for our BJJ ceremony.

We each earned an additional stripe to our belts. Below is a pic of the adults and kids that attended. Great turnout. 

Time for a ton of grubbing tomorrow, Chinese food to be exact.  Happy Father's Day to all the fathers!!

Jiu Jitsu By The Bay 11: Island Combat

Our academy threw another great tournament this past weekend. We had around 500 competitors that competed in Gi and NoGi.

I had fun shooting the matches. I shot with my GF2 and the SLR Magic 35mm 1.4. I can't wait till the Panasonic G6 comes out. I'll have that as my main body.

I chose to use my manual lens for most of the shots because of the focal length ( I didn't want to get close enough to bother the competitors with my wide auto focus lens). A fast zoom lens with quick auto focus is typically better for these types of situations. I had a few miss focuses and some not intended motion blurred shots but most were good and got the job done.

After I get a good wide angle lens, a nice zoom lens would be great, preferably that expensive 12-35mm f28 constant aperture that Panasonic has.

I was able to get over 200 photos for this event. For future reference, I don't mind people using my photos but I'll start watermarking them as I shoot more of these types of events.


Here's a few of the images. Full set of images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apgfoo/sets/72157634053608815/

Sergio raffling off a Wii for kids who placed.

Team Mongolia brought a strong team this weekend.

I didn't do much video for the tournament. It's very difficult to shoot a ton of stills and get a ton of video at the same time. It can be done but I think once I get a bit more efficient I'd have an easier time.