Hello everyone,

I've added all the shots from this weekend to my yahoo photos...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/taichimom1/album?.dir=67e4re2&.src=ph&s
tore=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

A big "THANK YOU" to Kent's friend Chris for the lion photos and to
Dustin for some of the action shots of Coach's team.

Enjoy.

Tammy




--- In tristatewushukungfu@yahoogroups.com, "Mel" <tonji152@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> For those members who didn't make it out Saturday to the park
> Ampitheator last Saturday. You missed a great one. We narrowly
> escaped a rainout postponement. It was looking ugly weatherwise,
with
> lightening and the darkest clouds in the distance for a secoond
but
> miraculously not a drop come performance time. Infact it got
> downright hot and sunny afterwards. The Liondance team was first
up.
> The audience seemed appreciative enough though we were shy a few
> members by one lion and a cymbal player and the dance team has
been
> better in the past but we put on a good show and pulled off
another
> first in a realtime performance, a full shoulder stand from a
headsit
> by Kent and Dustin which was the highlight of their dance! We
found
> out at the last minute that Coach LI didnt bring any CD music with
> him for the demo and for this kind of thing you really need it.
> Luckily Tammy brought along her CD case and we winged it from
there.
> She had some nice selections that worked surprisingly well with
the
> wushu and Taichi teams. But before all that Coach Li "sprung one
on
> me" by having me hand drum music off the top of my head while the
> wushu team performed the "Demo Handform" Wouldn't you know it? We
> were a hit! Actually it is traditional in very old Kungfu schools
to
> perform by drumbeat so we had a taste of "Old school China! The
rest
> of the day was New school "Techno/Trance with wushu and "New age"
> taichi excellant performances by what seemed the largest group
Coach
> Li has put together yet in the best venue at the ampitheator with
the
> wonderfully matted surface. They finally pulled the plug on us
> however, It seemed we were only scheduled for about 20 minutes max
> and we were on for nearly 45 mins! *LOL* I understand some
excellant
> pics were taken and they should be posted very soon!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mel
>