Swords Audition Tournament

 A little sword fighting and fencing.

 Frodo auditioned for the pit orchestra for Mary Poppins - and made it! Yay! This is just warming up.
He'll be busy in February and March with this one.  Show weekend is March 23, 24, and 25 (for the locals among us)

 Working on making an air exchanger.

 Playing cards with friends.

 Frodo went to another tournament, his first Class A tournament. Weird building on the way.  Looks like semi-truck backed piled up.  Bizarre.

 Welcome to Indiana

 (Andy) Griffith water tower

Do you say Griffitt or Griffith? :D

 Frodo was asked to judge! That was an exciting surprise as he hasn't gotten his judging chevron yet.  But a small little honor.

 Frodo exchanging a few words with one of our great black belts.

 X-treme form - 1st place

(video below)

 x-treme weapons - 1st place

(video below)

 Exchanging words with the judges.

He was given a spirit award for his great attitude.

 Traditional Form - 1st place

(video below)

 Traditional Weapons - 2nd place

(video below)

 Sparring - 1st place

(video ended up being divided up oops)

It was a great match. They tied at times-up.
Next points went to Frodo.

 First Injury, small bleeding slice to the forehead

Not sure exactly how that happened during sparring.

 He didn't want me taking a picture! :D

 getting bandaged

 competitor and new friend hamming it up!

 Combat Sparring - 1st place

(video below)

Another great match... and comical!

 We've met some great people at these tournaments!

 AWESOME JOB!

5 Firsts, 1 Second, 1 Spirit Award and 1 cut to the forehead!

Hoping for a state champ this year, so far so good... 2 more tournaments to go before we find out in April if he wins a state champ....

VIDEOS....

Frodo's Xtreme Form - 1st place

Frodo's Xtreme Weapons - 1st place

A bit of goofing around with a competitor-friend.

Frodo's Form - 1st place

Frodo's Weapons - 2nd place

Those were a few of the bits and pieces of the sparring

Frodo Combat Sparring - 1st place
(awesome match!)

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COMPETITOR-FRIEND-FAVOR
as a favor we recorded this young man's

competitions so his guardian who was competing

at the same time could watch later...

A competitor-friend's form

A competitor-friend's weapons

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