Kuk Sool Won ~ St. Louis

 We spent most of the day Saturday at the Kuk Sool Won tournament.  It was a VERY big tournament so it took a while.  I was VERY glad that Beau wasn't with us!!

Here are all the kids from the Greenwood school before the tournament.

 This was a view of the gym from our seats.  There were 12 rings going at the same time all day long.

 Blake did amazing!!  I thought he looked the very best doing his form.

 Looking good!!

 His first medal was 2nd place for forms.  Good job Blaker!!

 He did techniques next.  Kinda tough because his partner was also competing at the same time, so he had to grab someone else at the last minute.  Harder to do techniques with someone you haven't been practicing with.  He still looked good and got a 3rd place medal.

 He might have grown a little since last year;)  His pants were on the short-ish side!

 We totally missed getting a picture of him with his staff.  It's a big long stick that you "twirl" around.  He did great seeing how he only learned the "routine" (my word, not his) the week before.

His favorite part is sparring.  It's basically fighting with a lot of pads on.  He totally rocked it and won another 2nd place medal!!!\

 SO proud of him!!

 That's a lot of well-deserved BLING!!

 And....the crew afterwards.  Every single kid from Greenwood won at least 1 medal.  That's VERY impressive and says a lot about the Kuk Sool Won of Greenwood school. 

 

Afterwards we all headed downtown to eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory.  It was excellent, and we all enjoyed relaxing with good friends.  The kid table was a little crazy!! 

 

We had a really great weekend!  It's really nice to get to do some special things with the big boys!! Thanks Nana and Papa for keeping Beau for us!!!