This past weekend KwaZulu Natal and the San Kwan hosted their Annual KZN 24 Hour Last Man Standing Challenge at Giba Gorge Mountain Bike Park.  Starting with around 70 Participants. In a nutshell students participated in a 24 hour training challenge.  The first half being an ITF Taekwondo seminar where we specifically focused on Vital Spots and their application and the second half of the challenge involved a variety of different disciplines.

Throughout the evening participants were subjected to training drills, trail running and orienteering.  Pretty much everything except the kitchen sink was thrown at them to eventually get down to one participant who was crowned the Last Man Standing.  Despite our efforts nine participants made it through to the morning.  We eventually separated them by making them run a BMX track dropping the slowest competitor in each race. Essentially the winner was required to run a 350m BMX track 8 times after 23 previous hours of training without sleep to claim the title.

This year was very special because we had Hapkido, GTF and Kick Boxing participants for the first time. Congratulations needs to go out to Saien Pather from Richards Bay for taking home the title of Last Man Standing.  Ben Van der Merwe from Durban put in a strong performance coming in third.  Second place went to someone from Hapkido so we are not going to talk about that much. :-)

All in all, it was a great event building great relationships with other Korean Art practitioners, not to mention some serious bonding between all who participated.

Sean Cremer – San Kwan