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OCT 1 WE CAUGHT HARD KNOX GRAPPLERS ISAAC AND JAKE FINE GOING TO ATLANTA TO COMPETE IN THE
NAGA'S. IN THE END BOTH OF THESE YOUNG LIONS CAME HOME WITH 1ST PLACE IN THEIR DIVISIONS.
ON THAT SAME DAY OCT 1 NORTH KNOX ISSHINRYU TOOK FOUR COMPETITORS TO KY FOR THE BATTLE OF CUMBERLAND GAP. AT THE END
OF THE DAY IT URNED OUT WELL FOR THE NORTH KNOX TEAM WITH THE UP AND COMING ADAM DEFFINGER COMING HOME WITH 3RD PLACE IN BOTH
WEAPONS AND EMPTY HAND KATA. ADAM THEN TOOK 2ND IN SPARRING, IT WAS AN OFF DAY FOR ADAM BUT AS WE TALKED LATER ADAM LEARNED
ALOT FROM THIS TOURNEY. ISAAC STOUT BROUGHT HOME 2ND IN BOTH KATA AND SPARRING, TIS WAS A SHOCK BECAUSE ISAAC MAY
BE ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED KIDS IN THE AREA.
SEAN MCMAHAN COMPETING IN HIS FIRST TOURNEY EVER BECAUSE
OF LACK OF KIDS IN HIS DIVISION MOVED UP AN AGE CLASS AND COMPETED WITH BROWN BELTS. EVEN THOUGH SEAN WAS IN A HIGHER AGE
BRACKET AS WELL AS COMPETING WITH THE HIGHER RANKED KARATE-KA, SEAN CAME HOME WITH 2 1ST PLACES, 1 IN KATA THE OTHER IN SPARRING.
SEAN HAD HIS BACKFIST WORKING AND LOOKED VERY SHARP ON THIS DAY.
BRANDON MCMAHAN FINISHED THE DAY OFF FIGHTING
BEN FORD FROM LEWIS KARATE. BRANDON FELL BEHIND VERY EARLY 4-1 BEFORE HE TOOK THE FIGHT IN HIS HANDS AND SCORED THE NEXT 4
POINTS WINNING 5-4. IN THE GRAND BRANDON FOUGHT A KID FROM JOHNSON CITY WHO STANDS 6FT5, BRANDON HAD KNOW PROBLEM WITH THE
SIZE AND REACH DISADVANTAGE BY QUICKLY DISPOSING OF HIS OPPONENT 5-1. THEN IN THE FINALS OF THE TOURNAMENT BRANDON FOUGHT
BRANDON BAIRD FROM LEWIS'S DOJO EVENTUALLY LOSING 5-4 IN A TOUGH FIGHT THAT WE CLEARLY THOUGHT BRANDON MCMAHAN WON. I
REALLY APPRECIATE BRANDON BAIRD TELLING BRANDON, YOU CLEARLY WON THAT FIGHT AND EVERYONE OF THOSE KICKS LANDED BUT THATS HOW
IT GOES IN POINT FIGHTING.
SEPT 17 CAUGHT DEVAN PLAISANCE AND BRANDON MCMAHAN COMPETING AT THE
WHEELERS FALL CLASSIC. CHUCK REYNOLDS WAS THE HOST AND ALWAYS RUNS A 1ST CLASS TOP NOTCH TOURNAMENT. THIS TOURNAMENT FEATURED
CONTINUOUS SPARRING AS WELL AS TEAM FIGHTING AND YOUR USUAL POINT FIGHTING.
BRANDON FOUGHT IN THE LIGHTWEIGHT
CONTINUOUS DIVISION AND TOOK 1ST PLACE BY A SCORE OF 52-28. BRANDON ACTUALLY TOOK IT VERY EASY ON HIS OPPONENT AND ONLY FOUGHT
AT ABOUT HALF SPEED. I KEPT TELLING HIM TURN IT UP AND HE JUST NEVER DID. AFTERWARDS HE TOLD ME, I NEW I HAD THE FIGHT WON
AND THERE WAS NO NEED IN TURNING IT UP BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WANT ANYONE TO DO ME LIKE THAT. I UNDERSTAND WHERE HE WAS COMING
FROM BECAUSE HIS OPPONENT IS A GOOD FIGHTER AND A CLASS ACT.
IN THE POINT FIGHTIN BRANDON TOOK SECOND LOSING TO
LANDON REYNOLDS. LANDON IS A GREAT YOUNG FIGHTER AND MAY BE THE FASTEST FIGHTER I'VE SEEN IN AONG TIME. STILL WE ALL FELT
LIKE THE JUDGES POINTS WERE MORE THAN QUESTIONABLE WITH LANDON SCORING 6 POINTS OFF OF KICKS THAT CLEARLY LANDED ON BRANDONS
ARM. THEN DEVAN FOUGHT AND DEFEATED UNITED KARATE'S CHUCK LANGSTON IN VERY EASY FASHION AS IT WAS VERY APPARENT THAT MR
LANGSTON WAS CLEARLY OUT OF HIS LEAGUE AGAINST DEVAN. DEVAN LOST IN HIS QUEST FOR 1ST PLACE AGAINST ANOTHER UNITED FIGHTER,
THE BAD THING ABOUT THIS FIGHT IS DEVAN NEARLY KICKED THIS GUY'S HEAD OFF OF HIS SHOULDER SCORING 3X WITH TREMENDOUS HEAD
KICKS IN WHICH ALL 3 UNITED JUDGES TURNED A BLIND EYE TO ONLY TO SCORE KICKS FOR THE UNITED FIGHTER THAT DIDN'T EVEN COME
CLOSE TO LANDING. IN TEAM FIGHTING DEVAN, BRANDON AND TONY WILLIAMS LOST 9-7 TO UNITED'S KARATE TEAM AND GREGG, TJ WHITE
AND MARTY ROBBINS LOST TO THE SAME TEAM BY THE EXACT SAME SCORE. ALARMING TO ME WAS HOW ISSHINRYU JUDGES JOE LANEY AND BRAD
HATCHER KEPT SEEING POINTS ONE WAY AND THE UNITED JUDGES WITH 3 IN THE RING KEPT CANCELING THEM OUT WITH POINTS GOING THE
OTHER WAY. AS BRANDON AND DEVAN BOTH SAID THATS THE POINT GAME AND YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO BEAT NOT ONLY YOUR OPPONENT BUT
THE JUDGES TO. ALTHOUGH I LOVE POINT FIGHTING AS A SPORT I DO SEE WHY SO MANY OF THESE TOP ATHLETES ARE TURNING TO CONTINUOUS
SPARRING, KICKBOXING AND MMA.
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