Great news, Troy! I'm glad to hear it. I'm surpised
Marissa didn't jump on their backs and punch them in
the head. (That's what she does to me. Takes her
about 20 seconds for that too.)

Tell them I'm very proud of them.

Dave

--- Troy Simizon <tsimizon@...> wrote:

> Marissa and Rachel attend a local martial ars
> tournament March 3.
>
> Marissa, won first place for her division doing Lion
> Form. In
> sparring Marissa had to move up to the next division
> and sparred with
> the yellow and orange belts up to nine year olds.
> The first match
> was against a nine year old orange belt who found
> out that Marissa
> can kick. Within 20 seconds she had scored 4 points
> on kicks and
> won. She then took on another nine year old and
> took care of him.
> It wasn't until her fourth match (and third in a
> row) that she lost.
> It was OK since it was a girl that managed to win.
>
> Rachel, did a great job doing four direction form.
> Rachel also did
> great sparring, she chased one boy around the ring
> the whole time,
> but he managed to get shot in and the judges seemed
> to miss her
> inside shots.
>
> The best part of the day for me was when one
> instructer from another
> school as he was chasing down his students
> complemented me on how
> well Rachel and Marissa acted.
>
> If you would like to check out some pictures:
> http://www.simizon.com/kungfu.htm
>
> Charlie and his kids where also there and they did a
> great job.
>
>
>




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