United States Karate Open

Friday and Saturday, July 6 & 7, 2007
Coronado Springs Resort - Orlando, FL

To view pictures from the tournament, click here!

Check out Adam's blog during the trip - Florida: Five Years Later!

By name, here is how our competitors placed...

Clay Blum

2nd place in Traditional Forms
no place in Point Sparring

Daisy Breitbarth

3nd place in Point Sparring
5th place in Traditional Forms
no place in Continuous Sparring

Carly Crabtree

1st place in Traditional Forms - Carly is the first Metamora Martial Artist to win 1st place at the US Open!
no place in Point Sparring

Brandon Sassaman

5th place in Traditional Forms
no place in Point Sparring

Alex Schertz

2nd Place in Traditional Forms
no place in Traditional Weapons

Thomas Deters (Traditional Weapons, Traditional Forms), Meaghan Gove (Traditional Forms, Point Sparring), and Courtney Yeast (Traditional Forms, Point Sparring) also competed, but none officially placed.

This competition was the toughest in the world - teams competed here from literally all over the world! Congratulations to all our competitors. Hopefully this only creates the drive to win even bigger next time!