well after instruction and what not, the "youth" was allowed to free spar.
not being aggressive/trying hard/tenacious injury list:
1) lots of bruises
2) hurt fingers
3) hurt head
4) other injury from meeting the ground
try hard and tenacious fighters injury list:
1) bruises
2) twisted wrists and ankles
3) head injury
4) and one case of a sword point going about a 1cm in to some ones hand
all in all not to bad it I do say so myself. compared to other years where we have had worse injuries. ultimately the tenacious fighters won every bout but one or two of them. also all were able to walk away with a smile on their face. most injuries to the youth fighting hard were self inflicted or were caused by someone putting forth similar effort. etc....
that was the weekend