Promotions and Tournaments

Hey Gang,

Running right through this month fast and furious as usual. We have some promotions to handout and tournament victories to recognize;

Nick "Hollywood" Fraser, Blue Belt
Jason "The Heat" Fraser, Blue Belt
Nina "Legion" Ramsey, Purple Belt
Hunter "The Phenom" McCutcheon, Orange Belt
Gabe "Thriller" Chism, Gold Belt
Carson Ricketts, Gold Belt
Alex Nichols, White Belt Fundamentals

And congrats to "Iron" Will Potts for his 3rd place Gi Victory at the Nixa Tournament. Speaking of tournaments, why I have decided not to continue to run the grappling tournaments at the MidSouth Sport Karate Tournaments. Breaking down simply is we do not have enough participants to make it worth my while. To run a grappling tournament takes all the fun out of going to a tournament. We have to set the brackets, weigh the competitors, ref, judge and score the whole event, not to mention putting up with all the complaining, whinning and shady coaches, instructors who are there to sandbag there students to victory and forget integrity. Thanks to Daniel, Jessica and Pete we have been doing just that ourselves, with only 2 - 3 of our youths competing. Not worth it. Plus we are a street self defense school. Having given this alot of thought we will continue to support the Tournament Circuit run by Master Binky Furstenburg. We will go to some tournaments as a group/School, when we have enough competitors. It also takes away from our class time on Saturdays and with very little competitors it does not set well with me to take class time away from you.


Peace.........And let's keep rollin'........