Degree Black – Performance Martial Arts Academy

Battle at the Bay was a Success

Congratulations to everyone who competed in the tournament “Battle at the Bay” in Charleston, SC. Next tournament will be in Mobile, AL. This tournament was a great way to end the 2012 year.

Many of our students competed very well against other champions from all other the South West. Mr. Church completed another midterm on his way to his 6th Degree Black Belt and Mastership. Mr. Church only has 2 more to go!

Pictures will be on Thursday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m. Please bring your medals and your smiles 🙂

Performance Martial Arts Academy has produced six state champions for the 2012
season.  Chief Instructor, Mitchell Church tells that this "is quite an
accomplishment and is a year long process that involves intense training, travel and
competition events across the country.  This is a point accumulation system and the
competitor with the most points from throughout the state is the winner."  "These
students and in many cases; their parents make significant sacrifices to achieve
this goal."  Church adds.

The results are as follows: Color Belt Division 
Duane Cunningham won State Champion in Traditional Forms.

Madison Swain won State Champion in Sparring.

First Degree Black Belt Division Kyle Turner won State Champion in Traditional Weapons

Second and Third Degree Black Belt Division 
Jennifer Hardy won State Champion in Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons and
Sparring

Fourth and Fifth Degree Black Belt Division 
Jennifer Powell won State Champion in Traditional Weapons

Mark Webb won State Champion in Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons, Sparring,
Creative Forms, Creative Weapons, Extreme Forms and Extreme Weapons.

Congratulations 2012 State Champions

We have a number of students at Performance Martial Arts who placed first in the state of Georgia in this year’s tournament standings.

Congratulations to the following students:

Madison Swain – Sparring

Duane Cunningham – Forms

Jennifer Powell – Weapons

Jennifer Hardy – Forms, weapons and sparring

Mark Webb – Forms, Sparring, Traditional weapons, X-Treme weapons and form and Creative weapons and form.

Good luck to the students who are competing at Worlds from June 18-24th.

Mr. Mark Webb is competing for World Champion and testing for his 5th Degree Black Belt.

Mrs. Powell is competing for World Champion as well.

We have several others that will be competing at worlds as color belts. We want to wish all competitors good luck!

Mr. Beau Griffis Earns 3rd Degree Black Belt

Mr. Griffis tested for his Black Belt on October13th in Valdosta, GA. Mr. Griffis did an excellent job at testing and we are all very proud of him. Mr. Griffis has many years of experience and has put many hours in to Tae Kwon Do to perfect his skill. Congratulations, Mr. Griffis.

Left to Right: Mr. Griffis and Mr. Church

Perry Regional Tournament

Performance Martial Arts had over 40 students compete at the Perry Regional Tournament on November, 12.

RESULTS:

4th and 5th Degree Black Belt Division

Mark Webb placed 1st in Traditional Weapons, Sparring, Creative Weapons, Extreme
Weapons, Extreme Forms and 2nd in Traditional Forms and Creative Forms.

2nd and 3rd Degree Black Belt Division

Jennifer Hardy placed 2nd in Weapons and 3rd in Sparring and Forms

1st Degree Black Belt Division

Marge Sprott placed 3rd in Forms and Sparring

Kyle Turner placed 2nd in Forms and Weapons and 3rd in Sparring

Color Belt Division

Jay Johnson – 3rd in Weapons and Sparring

Madison Swain – 1st in Sparring, 2nd in Weapons, and 3rd in Forms

Anna Leigh Coody – 4th in Weapons

Patrick Horsley – 4th in Sparring

Jay York – 1st in Forms, Weapons and Sparring

Clay York – 1st in Forms and 2nd in Weapons

Ian Willis – 3rd in Forms

William Horsley – 1st in Sparring and Weapons, and 4th in Forms

Jacqueline Wang – 1st in Forms

Alexander Wang – 1st in Sparring and Weapons

Nicole Sinnott – 1st in Forms and Weapons and 2nd in Sparring

Alex Sinnott – 3rd in Sparring

Anita Sinnott – 4th in Forms

Garith Chaney – 1st in Forms, Weapons and Sparring

Christian Dawson – 1st in Forms, Weapons and Sparring

Matthew Dawson – 1st in Forms, Weapons and Sparring

Duane Cunningham – 3rd in Forms and Sparring

Richard Hartnitt – 3rd in Weapons

Mandy Lane – 1st in Forms and Sparring

Seaborn Williams – 2nd in Sparring and 3rd in Forms

Christian Martinez – 1st in Forms and 3rd in Sparring

Paul Massari – 4th in Forms

Keith Strickland – 4th in Forms

Zada Wilson – 2nd in Forms and 1st in Sparring

Teresa Hamiliton – 1st in Forms and Weapons and 2nd in Sparring

Zachary Coody – 4th in Forms

Dawson Norris – 1st in Weapons, 2nd in Forms and Sparring

Lexi Colbert – 1st in Forms and Sparring

Sean Northcutt – 2nd in Sparring and 3rd in Forms

Matthew Godwin – 1st in Forms and 3rd in Sparring

J.T. Davis – 2nd in Weapons

Patrick Grove – 1st in Sparring and 2nd in Forms

Lukas Smidtas – 1st in Weapons and Sparring and 2nd in Forms

Maddy Lawson – 2nd in Sparring and 3rd in Forms

Jackson Lawson – 3rd in Sparring

Nathan Lawson – 3rd in Forms

Congrats to All for Orlando Tournament October 20-22

Many students attended the ATA Taekwondo Fall Nationals in Orlando, Florida. Ms. Powell tested for her 4th Degree Black Belt. Mr. Cox certified in Combat Weapons. Mr. Webb certified in spontaneous knife defense. Ms. Cox certified in Warrior X Fit.

*Pictures to come*