let's start off by congratulating the team intense martial arts - elite fighting team for an amazing display of leadership, perseverance, determination, and pure hard work at the past usat california state championships in cerritos, california. master catalasan brought 8 of her fighters to this event and 7 came home with GOLD and will continue on to nationals/junior olympics in detroit, michigan in july. not only did we come back super victorious, but we got complimented a ton for our new uniforms (but, i'll have to post pics of that next time!
we also had a kick-off. basically, a kick-a-thon, but we hate using such "generic" lingo, so, we changed it up and called it a kick-off! =) we raised about $2,200.00!! a lot of kids raised a ton of money for the team, but the big collectors were:
s. quijada - $300
k. pascoe - $260
b. kaneshiro - $259
e. depoorter - $250
these guys get a trip to boomers and everything else too (ice cream party, t-shirt). it was such a fun day... check these out...
team leader, b. kaneshiro
team leader, s. aguilar
team leader, j. kaihewalu
team leader, s. okerlund
team leader, b. barth
needless to say, we had a great time at this event! after the actual "kick-off" we went outside and had a "team tailgate". we grilled up some burgers and some dogs and just enjoyed the company of each other and celebrated a job well done!
next up... march 29th, friendship fight-off (w/ ferrer academy of martial arts and iron taekwondo)... then master catalasan flies out to iowa to observe the olympic team trials and world junior championships... on the 12th, the elite team will take a road trip up to fresno, california (courtesy of the kaihewalu family rv) to support s. okerlund in his attempt to make it to nationals/jr. olympics in july. on the 25th.. we'll be having our 2nd FLICK! jam-packed april!!!
keep checkin' back for updates!
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