AP3

Today I helped Don and Buddha in the AP3 class and it went great! It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it! Not much happened lately other than the park party performances every Thursday. I was also invited to perform at the 4Th of July "party" before the fireworks in front of all (most) of west Michigan. Well, i have to go now! :)

This is Baby Parker!

This is my baby cousin Parker that I told you about. He is 5 months old and has Neuroblastoma. It is a very aggressive cancer that attacks the nervous system. He has a tumor like a grapefruit in his tummy and others all over including behind his eyes. He was just moved to Devos Childrens Hospital this week for cancer treatment.

Please pray for him.

Stranger Danger!!!!!! TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL!

Me Performing for the Cherry Valley Girlscouts and teaching Stranger Danger/Safety awareness.

Can I have your autograph! You won't believe what and where they wanted me to sign! Their mom's are going to have their hides!

A LESSON TO ALL PARENTS OUT THERE! I PLANTED STRANGERS IN THE CROWD WHO MINGLED WITH THE GIRLS (NEARLY 200 OF THEM). THEY WERE INSTRUCTED TO TALK TO AS MANY KIDS AS THEY COULD. CARE TO GUESS HOW MANY SAID "NO" TO MY STRANGERS? ONLY 2! MY MOM WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE ONE LITTLE GIRL TO TAKE HER HAND AND WALK HER TO THE BATHROOM. A GROUP OF 7 LITTLE BOYS GAVE THEIR NAMES AND AGREED TO HELP FIND MY LITTLE BROTHER WHO MY MOM SAID WAS "LOST". ANOTHER GROUP OF ATLEAST 10 LITTLE GIRLS GAVE THIER NAMES AND HELPED MOM FIND HER LOST PUPPY! OH MY GOODNESS! TEACH YOUR CHILDREN! TEST YOUR CHILDREN! THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHO IS A STRANGER AND NOT TO TALK TO ANYONE THEY DON'T KNOW AND KNOW WELL!

I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I WANT TO SAVE LIVES. I WANT TO TEACH KIDS HOW TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. NOT ONE MORE KID SHOULD DIE OR BE HURT AT THE HANDS OF A STRANGER!

I WILL BE HAPPY TO TEACH TO ANY AND ALL KIDS! THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THE WORLD IS NOT SAFE AND THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WANT TO HURT THEM. THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND HOW TO STAY SAFE! KIDS UNDERSTAND OTHER KIDS, I DON'T TALK AT THEM OR DOWN TO THEM.........I AM ONE OF THEM.

PRAYERS!

I just found out that my BABY cousin Parker has cancer :( he really needs prayers! the doctors said that he only had a 25% chance so he needs your prayers and your thoughts!!!!

i will appreciate it tremendously

~thanks~

update!

O.k so yeaterday I went and performed for 2 groups of 100-150 girls under the 5th grade! That went awesome and they learned a lot about stranger danger and self defense (with help from Chuck Pippin!) And then today I performed at the WOTV4 park parties with Maranda 2x! It was a lot of fun but it was out in the 90 degree weather and no shade! So ..... WHERE ARE MUSHTAQ AND CODY?????????????????? I need you!!! I am so sore! after the second performance, I had almost passed out (because of the heat and my vocal cord disfunction -vcd-) and my muscles and my joints kill!! but I guess I will live! (I hope) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) but I have to go now, it is about dinner time! ~ttyl~

So Busy!

Hey! I have been so busy lately! Between learning the three sectional staff with Grand Master Bong Jornales, Learning Silat Ground fighting with Mushtaq, I am also giving private lessons in the traditional karate for the students that want some extra help every once and a while. On top of all of that, I have two huge performances coming up this week! I have to teach self defense and stranger awareness with two groups of about 100-200 girl scouts under the 5Th grade on Wednesday. Then on Thursday, I am performing at the WOTV4 park parties with Maranda. So I am pretty booked! But it is so much fun! Most people would hate this much commotion but I love it! I will tell you how everything goes when it happens! I have to go practice now! :) (in the 90 degree weather!!! sounds like loads of fun 'cause it is!)

ONE LUMP OR TWO!

Yes! Even in a dress!

This is me with my right-hand wo-man!

And, for the record, I like these pictures better! So, now you guys know.....I am a girl (sometimes)! :) :) ;0

THANX MOM!!!!

(pay backs r in order)

Rare Sighting! Paris Who?

Mariah's Blog has been hijacked for the sole purpose of exposing and sharing her girlie moment!

Yes! This really is Mariah just before her 8th grade dance last night. Too bad the paparazzi missed their golden moment. Don't hold your breath. A photo op like this probably won't present itself again until at least 2008! Don't let the pretty dress fool you, she's still dishing out lumps.

Good News!

I'm o.k. I had to go to the cardiologist because there is a lot of history of heart problems in my family. 2 of my cousins have congenital heart defects and one of them has had open heart surgery and has a pacemaker. I think some of you know I have Vocal Cord Dysfunction and I'm still learning performance breathing and how to control it. Anyway, they wanted to make sure there wasn't a problem with my heart. They were looking for birth defects and for the thickening of the walls of the heart. Have you ever heard of athletes being perfectly healthy and then they just tip over and die all the sudden? Well, they wanted to make sure that didn't happen to me. I had a heart echo (ultrasound that took an hour) and an E.K.G and 2 doctors checking me out. I'm so HAPPY! They said everything looked good and I am completely normal. :0) LOOK OUT GUYS! HE SAID I'M HEALTHY AND ENCOURAGED ME TO DO ANYTHING I WANT TO DO IN MARTIAL ARTS! NO RESTRICTIONS!
BTW! Thank you for thinking of me!

What's up.....

Hi,
I've been pretty busy this week. I have several private sessions set up to teach other students who need some extra polishing so that is keeping me busy along with my own classes.

Two days of school left and then school's out for summer!

I have to go to the doctor today (more of this morning) and get my heart checked out because I'm having some signs of heart problems (they run in the family) so I will be there today for a long while! They are looking for congenital heart defects so I'll have an EKG, Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and an Ultrasound. I have to go and get in the shower, Talk to you soon!!!!!

Buh-Bye
=^..^=

Hello

Today is and was vey boring so I hope you had a more exciting day than me!
let me know what you did!!!! :)

Getting to know me.

I started asking to do karate when I was 6 years old. I had to wait two years because my mom and dad didn't want to drive me across town to train. Then when I was 8, R0-KEN Karate(Kyokushinkai Kan) opened nearby. I COULDN'T EVER LEARN ENOUGH! I train with Sensei Aaron Bailey 2 days a week. He’s like a big brother to me now. When we’re training it’s all business but we have fun together too.

When I was 10 I met Grand Master Wu Bin from China. He's the personal coach to Jet Li and Jackie Chan. I was at a martial arts camp in Kalamazoo. I trained with him here in the U.S. and then, WOW! He sent me a personal invitation to train with him in China at his famous Wushu training center. I went, I learned so much, I made friends like world champion in Kung Fu, Ma Chao and Wang Fang. I also walked on the Great Wall. Anyway, I came back home and continued training back here in the U.S.

I compete often on the local circuit. Using the broadsword form Master Wu Bin taught me, I entered my first weapons competition. One of my judges was Grand Master Bong Jornales. His style is Arnis Sikaran, Jornales System. He is from the Philippines and actually got all of his training in the streets of Manilla. He had to so he could survive. He liked what I did and invited me to one of his stick seminars. The rest is history! I train with GM Bong twice a week for 2 hours. Grand Master Bong is awesome. He believes in me. He gives me as much as he feels I can handle and doesn't hold me back. Some instructors teach on a class schedule and no matter how bored or uninspired you are, you wait. Not Master Bong. He teaches ME! He took me to my first regional, championship last October. I won and moved on to Nationals in February. I made the US National Team and went on to the World Championships in JULY! HOLY COW! I still can't believe it. It's almost like a dream and it feels like yesterday, but on July 3rd I got a gold medal in multiple weapons and on July 4th, I won the gold in: GUESS! YUP! Full Contact Double Stick Fighting! It didn't come easy I tell ya! WEKAF has 3, 1 minute rounds. We did 4! The last was a tie breaker. Did I tell you I broke 2 ribs in round 3? And fought the last round with them?

Recently, I began meeting with my USA Teammate Steve VanHarn to train on Sundays. He introduced me to his coach, Mushtaq Ali, who is awesome. Mushtaq and Steve have introduced me to so many KEWL (as Mushtaq would say) people! Check out my links to Bobbe Edmonds(Thick as Thieves), Mushtaq(Traceless Warrior) and I’m working on a link to Cody (CST Coach from California) too. Anyway. More about the rest of me. I love to act and perform. Last year I worked at THE HAUNT. Michigan's Biggest and Best Haunted House! I got to swing sharp and pointy weapons to SUPERBEAST by Rob Zombie! It was a blast! So not only do I love to fight, I love to scare people too! :)(oh yeah, I love it when I make grown men pee their pants!!!!!(Yes, it did happen! Just ask Jim Burns who owns The Haunt!)

Anyway, there's a nice big piece to the puzzle that is me. Moore later! I know it's cheesy. (I got that from my grandpa!)

Now, don't expect me to write this much every time! I do have to train you know! ;)

Buh-Bye!

Hello World!

Today I am still recovering from all the sore muscles and bruises from last weekend. I had trained for 4 days at the Gathering of the Tribes in Grand Rapids, MI. The instructors ath the Gathering were Guru Bobbe Edmonds (or as Mushtaq calls him Mega Great Grand Master Bobbe) (I bow to him), Grand Master Bobby Tabaoda, Cody Fielding, Mushtaq, and so many more important people in styles that ranged from Silat, Balintawak, grappling, and RMAX Circular Strength Training and had so much fun and learned even more!I also had Mushtaq over for dinner and he helped me set this page up so here I am.

In normal teen life, it was raining and storming all day long so I stayed inside and cleaned :( It was so boring that I almost went insane! I took up time playing with my new kitten and by creating and designing my brand new room!

A GREAT big thank-you to Mushtaq for helping me put this page up today (and also for all the wonderful hours of training :) throughout the months!!!!!!!

Buh-Bye!!!!