Southern Open Tournament

Congratulations to Payton and Jack Nelson who participated in the Southern Open Tournament in Hammond in April. This was their first tournament and they represented the Lafayette Karate Kids class with great spirit, respect and awesome karate! If you look for Allyson OKeefe photography on the web, you'll find her great sports photos and an album for this tournament.

Payton and Jack were the very first students in the youth class when we started 2 summers ago, and for a while they were the only students! So it was especially cool for me to go to their first tournament with them. There is a lot to be learned through tournament competition, and I believe they both came away with a new perspective on karate as well as on themselves.

UPCOMING EVENTS!

It's been too long since I put anything new up on the blogsite! A couple of important upcoming dates:
July 4th, Holiday (Comeaux Center closed) No class
August 7 Belt Test 11:30 a.m. Heyman Park
October 22 Youth Tournament, Ponchatoula, La.


With many students traveling on vacations or busy with additional activities this summer, the upcoming belt test on August 7 may not be recommended for everybody. I will be talking with individual students about that as the date gets closer. If your karate student is recommended to test, if you will be available on August 7, and if you would like them to test, training as much as possible until that date will be important!

Even though the youth tournament is several months away, I encourage you to start looking at your calendars to see if you will be available on that Saturday. We have had students compete at this tournament in the past and as our youth class continues to grow and we have more and more intermediate ranks, I will be encouraging more tournament participation. I would especially love to put some teams together in addition to the individual events! More info to follow...