Karate Brothers

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.

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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.

Jordan and family will be going to Spokane, WA for a Karate Tournament called the Inland Empire Martial Arts Tournament.

We found out about the tournament from PMA Walla Walla (our martial arts school) were others in the XDT Demo team also plan to attend. IEMAT is a martial arts tournament held in Spokane, Washington and is open to all styles and ages. It is one of the few organized tournaments in the northwest that is open to different styles.

Jordan is going to compete in the IEMAT before we go to Orlando, Florida for the Karate U.S. Open in June. This will probably be his first tournament that he will actually compete in. We wish him luck as he will be practicing almost daily for this.

While the boys pratice and play around with the Karate they have learned, I have thought we needed a way to warn people to keep a safe distance away. With the help of the “Karate Brothers”, we took an image of them kicking during their play and made this “Caution” sign for them to wear.

With the assistance of www.cafepress.com/ karatebrothers we are able to offer others the opportunity to wear this caution sign, have on a coffee mug or other items available with the image on it. If and when we get other little creative ideas we hope to ad to the items available.

Roland Osborne’s Website

Hey, we think Roland’s website looks great. It is definitely easier to find some stuff and looks really cool.

One of the coolest things about it, is Jordan’s Picture is on Roland’s website. When Jordan won the “last One Standing” kicking competition during Roland’s visit to Walla Walla and putting on a seminar. Jordan was told that his picture of him and Roland would be put on his website.

We of course had a few of our own pictures too.

Jordan, currently an orange belt, has had interest in learning the Broad Sword. While watching a borrowed video, he learned a short beginning form and has been anxiously showing “sir” and “maam” what he has learned about “Kung Fu” and the “Broad Sword”. Both “sir” and “maam” have some training in Kung Fu or related style of martial arts. Jordan always likes to learn his “normal” karate, but never will miss a chance to learn something else to impress his instructors.

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Kung Fu Broad Sword Form

Jordan had just recently received a Kung Fu Uniform which he was very excited about, he wanted the red button and cuffs. I have to admit he does look pretty sharp in it.

After watching the Broad Sword Video, a dozen or more times, Jordan was pretty good at the form and sir asked Jordan if he could teach a “Premier Class” of some kids a bit older than him and in higher belts. Jordan was very excited to get the chance to help out and at the same time show off a little bit. At the class, Whitney and Jolene were there to learn the form and then after a class or two, they would help teach the others in their class. They were really learning pretty quickly and Jordan did a good job being an Instructor.

Ok, its not really Ninja Training, but Kyler is getting to be a good little snow skier. While the other Karate Brother(Jordan) was at a demo team practice, Dad and Kyler decided to get some spring skiing in as the season comes near to a close.

After a season of Dad’s “Black Belt Academy” in the snow, Kyler decided he wanted to try a few Black Diamond runs at our local ski hill (Blue Wood). We had tried Skyline a time before, but he was getting tired and Kyler needed some assistance from dad to get down a couple steep parts. But not this time. Kyler has completed his Black Diamond Belt in snow skiing, by successfully traversing down multiple Black Diamond and the more advanced Blue Square runs in one day. Here is a list of runs he completed without any assistance from dad, but under his watchful eye: Ego, Prime Time (pictured), Manockums, Skyline, Hogback, Two Cannon, Huck Finn, Free Style and more. (watch Ninja Training in the Snow Video)

We had a lot of fun and he is really wanting to go see the Blue Wood Bash, but mom will be gone that weekend and Jordan has Demo Team practice so we will have to see.

Our Karate Brothers and a couple other kids from our church, Gina and Daniel, wanted to do a little karate performance for our churches talent program. The program was put on by mostly the kids, but there were a few adults that were brave enough to show their talents.

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For our Karate Show, the kids took on a K.I.C.K (Kids In Christs Kingdom) Team name, after the KICK team.org and yes we borrowed one of the songs they have on a demo.The kids did a really good job for most of them being pretty nervous about getting up in front of people. Kyler said, “I had stage fright a little bit, but then I went up on the stage.” He was hesitant to go on the stage after they did a group “Focus Form”.

Kyler was first on the stage, sporting his Nunchukas and awing the crowd with his splits and spinning both Nunchukas.

Gina brought in the Escrima Stick doing a 8 count form and then ending with section 1 of the “Power Form”.

Daniel persuaded his dad to assist in another Escrima stick demonstration, with the 8 count, 3 count and a few other manuvers.

Jordan, performed a form he has learned for his Demo Team.