Posts filed under 'Roland Osborne'
Dad has been spending lots of time with Jordan, helping him with his forms. It is hard for a “Dad” to act as a “Coach” sometimes without pushing too hard and keeping it fun. It is also at times difficult for a child to try as hard or listen to little critiques from a parent whom they hear similar corrective measures most days for other non-karate related aspects of life.
Jordan is working hard and is getting better with his forms every day. His “karate” chops, kicks and punches are stronger and technically more accurate. With regular karate classes 2 or 3 times a week for an hour, additional pointers from “Sir“, practicing at home 30min - 1hr each night this week before a tournament, practicing Piano and other childhood activities, Jordan is very busy.
Additional help for developing “fun” forms for Jordan was from DVD’s and internet videos from Mike Chat and Roland Osborne. Jordan really, really, really, really, really, wants to be on Mike Chat’s XMA Team Revolution.
Its Jordan’s desire to do well at the tournaments, willingness to practice and his love to “perform” is what makes it really fun for me to assist him in obtaining his goals.
April 23rd, 2007
Kyler had a good time at the Roland Osborne seminars, but I think he had even more fun when his friends showed up for the “Buddy Bash”. The Buddy Bash was a time to invite friends to the karate school and for them to meet Roland and get a “FREE” basic karate class with Mr. Osborne.
In the picture is Cadyn, Kyler and Nathan. They are really good friends and he hopes they get to come to karate classes with him some time. Kyler has taught them the order and colors of the belts, tried to teach them the basics of punches and kicks too.
Kyler is getting pretty good at the knunchaku’s so I call him “knunchaku master”. I think he likes that.
February 28th, 2006
What an event put on by Premier Martial Arts of Walla Walla! The classes with Roland Osborne were a great benefit to the boys. The first class was the “Kicking” class. Mr. Osborne went through the basics of kicking to help all the students attending and then kicked it into high gear for the more advanced. With the Dojo full of kids, teens and a few adults(myself included), everybody had a good sweat going from all the kicking activities.
One of the activities was the “Last One Standing ” (click for video 14mb) kicking contest where we were asked to do a high round kick as many times as we could without putting down our foot. Jordan and a few others, who had already been doing 25 to 50 kicks during our “kicking machine” practice in class, were some of the finalists that went into a tie-breaker. Roland would then decide the winner by who was doing the most and highest kicks. Now with more at stake, the other finalists were forced to kick higher than they had been in the previous round and Jordan was able to kick higher and longer than the others. Jordan was declared the winner by Roland Osborne and later took this picture after the class ended. Roland had a picture taken with his camera and said he would put it up on his website(Link to Jordan). He is also on a random image on the front page at this time.
Jordan, Kyler and all the other students were able to meet Mr. Roland Osborne and purchase some of his DVD’s, get autograph’s, and take pictures with him.
This picture was taken right after Roland signed Kyler’s headband and when he took off the headband his hair looked remarkably similar to Roland’s. Roland was signing many autographs on all types of memorabelia including bo staffs, shirts, kamas, gis, belts and “Go Warrior” flyers. We did get our share of autographed items and want to thank Mr. Osborne and PMA for the opportunity to meet Roland and learn better techniques.
Jordan is admittedly very excited about winning the “Last One Standing” and even more excited that his picture might be on the website of one of his favorite martial artists.
February 26th, 2006
Roland Osborne, of the “Go Warrior” series on Discovery Channel is visiting Walla Walla, WA this weekend, Feb. 25th and will be conducting training classes.
These classes are at the PMA Walla Walla dojo at 5:30pm (beginning and advanced kicking) and 6:30pm (weapons: Bo Staff and Kamas).
Jordan, Kyler and Dad are registered for the classes and are looking forward to being exhausted by the workout. We have heard the kicking class is a lot of work. After the classes there is a FREE Buddy Bash with Roland Osborne for Invited guests of those who are registered for the classes or attend the PMA School.
Jordan has an autographed pair of Mellinium Training Kamas that he ordered from Roland’s Website. I don’t know if he autographs all the kamas ordered, but when ordering we did mention we were looking forward to his coming to Walla Walla and Jordan is a big fan of his video training series.
Look for some pictures to come after this weekend.
February 23rd, 2006