Tough-man Contest

Are you tough enough?

This was the question we asked everyone as we started the Tough-man Contest. Clint and the ABKA put together this contest as a fun, healthy activity to do during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. Clint compiled a list of events (see below) and had different age groups compete against each other. We had everyone from 3 year olds to 50 year olds competing! It was too fun, and I'm so thankful that we had a good turn out. We had about 20-30 contestants and about 60 people overall attend the event.

One of our ABKA members graciously asked CAMP and NSEDC for donations to give as prizes for the contestants. Our expectations were passed as we had tons to give away! The winners of the contests were able to pick either water bottles, sweatshirts, Brooks running bags, walking pedometers, and New Testament Bibles!!

 

Clint welcoming everyone and announcing all the events that will take place. 

The first event Wall Sit:

Pre-k - 1st Grade division:

2nd-5th grade division:

 

Women's division:

Men's division

The second event, Can Hold:

The Crowd:

The second event, Push Ups:

The fourth event, Crab Crawl:

(so proud of my husband!) 

The fifth event, Kick Pad Sumo Wrestling: 

 

Unfortunately my camera ran out of memory. Yup. I need to take note that we need more memory cards...There was also another event that I wasn't able to get pictures of, which was the seal hop. If you don't know what the seal hop is, it's an event that they used to do in the older days. It's where you get down in a push-up position, and with one single motion, you hop up on your arms and legs. You continue the motion the full length of the gym. It's hard, but so funny to watch!

We had a successful Saturday, and I think everyone had a great time and went home with at least one prize. Some went home with more than one! We had snacks and refreshments after all the participants hard work! This will be a fun annual ABKA event that Clint and I think will be fun for the community.

Kingdom Karate Fun Day!

This last Saturday we put on a Kingdom Karate Fun Day for the kids. We started the practice with a little warm-up and got straight into our activities. We played Marco/Polo, which we changed to Bushido/Kai, which turned out to be a lot of fun, and got a lot of laughs. We then set up an obstacle course for the kids, that included tunnels, mats for tumbling, kick shields, and our newest member B.O.B (Body Opponent Bag) which was donated by the ABKA. We had almost 20 students who attended our practice.

I also gave a message on doing what is right even when no one is looking. Because Christ is always watching us, and he see's everything we do. James 4:17 says, "So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." All of our messages are designed to be simple and short to keep students attentive and engaged.

Here are some pictures from our practice:

  Bushido-KAI

Giving the message and explaining the obstacle course

Man Made Tunnels

One of my favorite pictures! I love when students are working hard

Everyone saying hi to B.O.B. The girls had fun fixing his handkerchief

ABKA visits White Mountain!!!

This week has been a wirlwind of a week, but I wouldn't want it any other way. Clint and I have been so busy, we haven't been on the computer-at all! It's been lovely to just disconnect while reconnecting with friends, each other, and having lots of baby time...

This past week we have had the blessing of the ABKA team which consisted of the Chief Instructor, Denny Holztbaur and his....Minion, Christa Baily! They came here 9 months ago in September for the very first time to help our karate school (well, not so much our's as Clint's and other's Karate class. I only say that because I'm not starting until September) get started up. It has been amazing watching and learning from them.

ABKA is a christian based martial art program which not only hits, kicks, and trains hard but they also dedicate their time to do important mission work around the world!

If you want to learn more about it...You can read about it here.

We held a community wide Karate Tournament on Saturday where all of Clint's student's performed their Kata's.

Christa Baily, Denny Holbauer, and Clint talking to the class 

Clint talking to the crowd explaining the tournament 

Clint performing a kata with his white belts 

One of Clint's students performing her kata

Using a sword! 

Using the bo staffs 

After the Katas, there was lots of sparring: 

Denny explaining the rules of sparring and how to accumulate points:

They handed out medals and gifts for each student who participated:

They also gave out awards to the best students who performed well:

I will update more pictures of the ABKA visit here in White Mountain in a few days.

P.S. ONE MORE DAY UNTIL THE GIVEAWAY ENDS!!! All you have to do is comment on the post where B is wearing her cute headband :) ...You have very good odds as their are only 5 entrants so far :) ...