Results from the tournament...

Master Olford's Battle in the Pines was held this past weekend at the Angelina College gym. It was a lot of hard work for our school, but things went well.

Here is what bow in looked like that morning.

Once again Mary was dominant in the 2nd and 3rd degree black belt 14-16 year old girls. She took first place in sparring and even without a current update of these tournament points earned this weekend is
3rd in the world right now. State champ, which is points only looks like a wrap even though the tournament season does not end till June. She competed form and weapons, but no place there. Here is a form shot. The gym is a great place to watch, you can see everything going on all at once as opposed to convention center venues where you are limited to the ring right in front of you, but without some decent zoom the pictures aren't as good..

Morgan did well, triple 3rd in form, sparring and weapons. Here he is giving some last minute advice to a student. He has turned into an instructor well respected by students and parents and is also making his mark in the organization as well.

Guess who else placed? Little old me took a 3rd place in forms. Not too shabby for maybe the second oldest guy in the ring. It was a three way tie for third, we each did our form again with all three judges selecting me as over all. I lost my sparring bout, pretty good match and that guy went on to take 1st so I did not feel too bad losing to him. I am glad to place in forms, you could redo sparring and possibly have a new winner, but you can't take away technique.

Here is a look at all trophies that we had to give away.

Here is a tournament savvy black belt giving out sage advice.

I Haven't had a recent picture of us in TKD get up made recently so I handed my camera to a bystander for a picture. I still don't have a picture of us, but here is the best that they could do.

I got some pretty good pictures of kids from our school, may be they will be used on Masters web site.