School Updates – Performance Martial Arts Academy

Congratulations to our Students

Chief Instructor, Mitchell Church, of Performance Martial Arts Academy announces the results of his students who recently competed in the Valdosta Super Regional Taekwondo Championships held here at the VSU P.E. Complex. Mr Church extended appreciation to the Mayor of Valdosta, John Gayle and President of Valdosta State University, William McKinney for their support and attendance. “I cannot say enough thanks about how our community provided support and sponsorship for this event. Our students and parents went the extra mile to ensure the event was a success. We had over two thousand spectators and approximately eight hundred competitors from across the southeastern United States.” said Church. “I have received calls all week from the high ranking Masters who attended and they were impressed with courtesy and hospitality of the event.”

The Valdosta Super Regional Taekwondo Championships results are:

Fourth and Fifth Degree Black Belt Division:
Mark Webb – placed first in Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons, Sparring, Creative Forms,Creative Weapons, Extreme Forms, and Extreme Weapons.

Jennifer Powell – placed second in Traditional Forms and Sparring. She placed first in Traditional Weapons.

Jennifer Hardy – placed 2nd in Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons and
Sparring. She placed first in Combat Weapons.

Second and Third Degree Black Belt Division:

Charlie Akins – placed third in Sparring and Combat Weapons.

Margaret Sprott – placed third in Traditional Weapons and second in Sparring and Combat Weapons.

First Degree Black Belt Division:
Christian Dawson – placed first in Traditional Forms. He placed second in Traditional Weapons, Sparring and Combat Weapons.
Lukas Smidtas – placed second in Traditional Weapons. He placed third in Combat Weapons and Sparring.
Tyler Howell – placed third in Sparring.
Kimberly Howell – placed first in Traditional Forms,Traditional Weapons and Combat Weapons and second in Sparring.
J.T. Howell – placed second in Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons and third in Combat Weapons.

Madison Swain – placed second in Traditional Forms. She placed first in Traditional Weapons, Sparring and Combat Weapons.

Joshua Jackson – placed first in Traditional Forms.

Matthew Dawson – placed third in Sparring and first in Combat Weapons.

Teresa Hamiliton – placed third in Sparring and second in Combat Weapons.

Annaleigh Coody – placed second in Traditional Forms and third in Traditional Weapons, Sparring and Combat Weapons.

Zachary Coody – placed fourth in Combat Weapons.

Patrick Horsley – placed second in Traditional Forms, and first in Traditional Weapons, Sparring and Combat Weapons.

William Horsley – placed second in Traditional Forms, third in Traditional Weapons, first in Sparring and second in Combat Weapons.

Color Belt Division:
Ben Melvin – placed first in Traditional Weapons and second in Combat Weapons.

Melissa Swain – placed second inTradtional Weapons and third in Sparring.

Robby Allen – placed first in Traditional Weapons and third in Sparring.

Josh Hatton – placed third in Sparring.

Alyssa Donaldson – placed first in Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons and Combat Weapons. She placed third in Sparring.

Alacia Donaldson – placed third in Traditional Forms and first in Traditional Weapons.

Sean Deegan – placed fourth in Traditional Forms.

Travis Twiford – placed second in Traditional Weapons and Combat Weapons, third in Sparring.

Riley Klein – placed second in Traditional Forms and Traditional Weapons. She placed third in Sparring and first in Combat Weapons.

Jacob Herrin – placed third in Combat Weapons.

Jaxon Radney – placed first in Traditional Weapons, Sparring and Combat Weapons.

Stevie Sipes = placed first in Traditional Forms.

Matthew Raison – placed first in Traditional Forms and Sparring.

Daken Raison – placed first in Traditional Forms and Sparring.

Erik Carreon – placed first in Traditional Weapons and second in Sparring.

Sahil Patel – placed second in Traditional Forms and Combat Weapons, third in Sparring.

Shane Vickery – placed first in Traditional Forms and Sparring.

Prince Patel – placed third in Traditional Weapons and second in Combat Weapons.

Avery Everidge – placed second in Traditional Forms.

Austin Everidge – placed third in Traditional Forms.

Aiden Everidge – placed fourth in Traditional Forms.

Brady Woods – placed third in Traditional Forms, second in Traditional Weapons and first in Combat Weapons.

Ian Holick-Jett – placed third in Sparring and Combat Weapons.

Braden Howard – placed first in Traditional Forms and Sparring. He placed third in Traditional Weapons and Combat Weapons.

Jackson Sain – placed first in Traditional Forms and Combat Weapons. He placed second in Tradtional Weapons.

Alexander Richardson – placed third in Sparring.

Carly Warren – placed first in Tradtional Forms.

Willy Thorp – placed second in Sparring.

Jason Thorp – placed first in Tradtional Forms, Traditional Weapons and second in Sparring.

Sonya Thorp – placed second in Traditional Weapons and first in Combat Weapons.

Marcayla Barnes – placed third in Tradtional Forms and Sparring and second in Traditional Weapons.

Tamyra Barnes – placed first in Traditional Forms and Traditional Weapons and second in Sparring.

Sandy Coody – placed first in Sparring and second in Combat Weapons.

Valdosta Super Regional Tournament T-Shirts

The March 1st, 2014 Tournament T-Shirts are now available to pre-order when you register online for the Valdosta Super Regional Tournament. T-Shirts will also be available, in limited quantities on the day of the tournament.

The tournament will be held at the Valdosta State University P.E. Complex, Taekwondo competitors from Georgia, Florida and other parts of the country are expected to be in attendance. As well as the American Taekwondo Associations Grand Master Emeritus Soon Ho Lee, as well as many other regional Taekwondo Master.

The event is open to the public with tickets being sold for $10 at the door, so come and enjoy as amazing sports event!

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello ATA family. Just wanting to wish everyone a very happy and safe Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to seeing you all back on Saturday morning ready to rock and roll. We are going to be getting ready for the March first Super Regional Tournament at the Valdosta State University P.E. Complex. See you all very soon.

Panama City This Weekend!!

We have quite a few students headed to Panama City Beach for Grand Master Emeritus’ tournament this weekend. Everyone has been training very hard and we are looking forward to seeing our students compete. We wish everyone the best of luck! All of our students should be proud of all the work they have put into preparing for this tournament!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

Boot Camp August 2013

Events for August

A quick reminder for our parents about what’s going on this month:
August 9 Ninja Night (Hahira)
August 10 Deadline for Testing Registration Discount
August 15 Testing for Valdosta and Lake Park
August 16 Testing for Hahira
August 17 Boot Camp and Black Belt Testing.
August 23 Nerf Wars — The winner will be announced during Nerf Wars

There you go parents! Any questions, please see your instructor for more details. Going to be a big month!!