This is our first time doing team forms and we won the ISKA Grand Championship!

For the first time ever, Austin Crain and I performed a Team Sync form.  We won 1^st place!  We finished making-up the form the Thursday night before the tournament and spent about 5 hours creating the routine and actual practicing it.  Once we get clearance from ESPN2 there will be footage on YouTube.  In addition, I performed in the night of champions for Forms and Weapons. You can also see me judging the XMA Trick Challenge!

My students, Sammy Smith and Danny Etkin did a great job at the tournament as well!  They both won the NASKA Forms Grand’s at the US Open.  Then they both earned a spot on the Night of Champions stage to compete for the ISKA world title.  Nikki Stanley also got the opportunity to compete at the Night show. Can’t wait for the ESPN2 footage to air!

Recently, I performed at the MAIA Super Show. The show included performers in silk acrobats, break dancers and martial artists.  The martial artists performers were:  Kim Do, Nikki Stanley, Austin Crain, Kalman Csoka, Mackensi Emory, Andrew Franklin, Tahna Dow, Marc Canonizado, Caitlin Dechelle and Anthony Gooch. Production and choreography behind the demo was electrifying. Can’t wait for the footage to come out!

2009 ended very well for me and my students.  Danny Etkin won his first World Titles in Boys 11 & under Extreme Forms and won three divisions in 9 & Under, Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons and Creative Forms.  Sammy Smith added 4 more NASKA World Titles to her list. She also won 5 Gold Medals at the WKA World Championships in Spain this past month.  Nikki Stanley won 3 NASKA World Titles her first year on the tour and won two more Gold Medals in Spain.

Since I won 3 Gold Medals in Spain, I now, officially have 10 World Titles in Forms and 10 World Titles in Weapons between NASKA, ISKA, NBL and WKA.