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We just returned from a trip to Spokane, Wa to attend the www.iemat.com (Inland Empire Martial Arts Tournament). It was a great experience for Jordan and the rest of the family. This was our first tournament to compete in and even to attend. While practicing with Jordan, we assured him that we wanted to do our best, but if we didn’t come home with a trophy, we could do better the next time and be even more prepared.
We along with other members of his Xtreme Demo Team, went for the learning experience. Our school has not previously attended or competed in other tournaments so this was a first for all of us.
Jordan’s 8 - 10 year old division was further broken up into Age/Experience categories for the kids to compete against other kids of similar age and amount of time practicing Martial Arts. Jordan competed in the 8 year old Intermediate breakdown, meaning they had 9 months to 1 year of training.
Going into the tournament, we were thinking Jordan would have to compete against everyone in the age bracket and only 3 trophies would be handed out. But with the further breakdowns, it gives more kids the chance to win with a more level field of competition.
To put more stress on the parents and somewhat Jordan, it was randomly chosen that Jordan had to perform first in his group. I have to say, Jordan did very well under the pressure of his first competition and with the results of the Judges, they must have agreed. Jordan’s score, remained in 1st Place (8yo Intermediate) while the other kids did their performances. Congratulations Jordan!!!
May 22nd, 2006
Premier Martial Arts of Walla Walla, put on a performance for the Balloon Stampede. Jordan, Kyler, Mom and Dad, had the pleasure of helping the Xtreme Demo Team and PMA for some of the weekend.
Jordan loves to perform in front of a good crowd. The Balloon Stampede proved to be just that. From the look on the people watching the Demo Team and XD Team, they enjoyed the program. The whole team worked real hard to make the program run smoothly. Ma’am, Diana Griffin, made sure the team was prepared and helped sharpen their skills.Jordan performed his Advanced American Forms Challenge Form, by Roland Osborne. Jordan has really worked hard on this form. It has some fairly difficult sequences of kicks and punches for his age and belt level.
Kyler, though not on the XD Team, he helped pass out infomation cards at the PMA booth and was there to support his Karate Brother and the rest of the team.
After a great and intense demonstration, PMA Instructors, Diana and Steve, bought the team passes to go on one of the largest “air filled” slides that was 60 ft. tall. (Thanks Ma’am and Sir)
See some more pictures of the Balloon Stampede Demonstration here.
Please leave a note if you saw the team at the Balloon Stampede.
May 16th, 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
