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Sorry one last point as to when you feel you are ready as apposed to are ready and this may be what your Sensei is getting at - they say for each min of knockdown you need to have trained a 1000 mins (16 hours) so for a tourney with say 4 rounds of 2 x 2 min fights you need to have prepared to fight for at least 16 mins; to me this equals 16 weeks of 16 hours training as this is the max I can do - the top guys do around 32-36 hours per week of training. When you feel ready to fight you need to start preparing to fight.