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Hello Everyone,

Once again, The Edge 2005 turned into an amazing showcase of great action put on by some of the best competitors yet! All of these martial artists were true champions by just stepping up and into the ring. This year, The Edge featured competitors from local schools such as Tai Chi People, Lopez Martial Arts, St. Clair's Martial Way Academy as well as Houston based Solis Martial Arts. The Edge attracted several other solo practitioners including Mark Machaud from Michigan. All nine competitors came together to show the audience just how bad they wanted the 23 medals and a chance to compete for one of the three Title Belts.

In the end, The Edge 2005 proved to be one of the best tournaments put together. with the competitors receiving only the best treatment. This included breakfast from Cafe Java, lunch from Obee's Sandwiches and dinner from Two Fat Guys Catering. On top of this, Dan from ActionFlex Padded Weaponry not only supplied the weapons of the day; but also several extra prizes for the competitors. Then Ron Balicki and Pointman Productions offered up the very impressive JKD DVD Instruction Set for a prize. Then there was Cold Steel. All that can be said about Lynn Thompson and Cold Steel is that they rock! The competitors were given grab bags with many gifts. Then they also were given the chance to win everything from the Recon and TiLite to the Trail Master and Oyabun. Also up for grabs from Cold Steel would be their Sarong, Warriors Edge and Stun Stagger Stop DVDs. To top it off, the audience had a chance to win door prizes including Sjamboks, practice Bokkens and several of the above prizes as well. All in all, the day was a huge hit and kept not only the audience on the the edge of their seat; but the competitors as well.

Results for the day:

Technical Knife
1st - Roberto Vallarino
2nd - Alfredo Lopez
3rd - Rocky Gonzalez
4th - Norman Sipp

Continuous Knife
1st - Title Belt - Roberto Vallarino
2nd - Rocky Gonzalez
3rd - Kenneth Bennett

Knife Tusseling
1st - Norman Sipp
2nd - Mark Machaud
3rd - Roberto Vallarino

Technical Sword
1st - Alfredo Lopez
2nd - Rocky Gonzalez
3rd - Norman Sipp
4th - Roberto Vallarino

Continuous Stick
1st - Rocky Gonzalez
2nd - Roberto Vallarino
3rd - Alfredo Lopez

Title Match - Roberto Vallarino def. Rocky Gonzalez (7th round sudden death)

Close Range Stick - Hubad
1st - Norman Sipp
2nd - Rocky Gonzalez
3rd - David Cantu

Open Weapons

1st - Roberto Vallarino
2nd - Mark Machaud
3rd - Norman Sipp

Title Match - Roberto Vallarino def. Norman Sipp

Competitor Records and more news will be posted soon at at www.EdgeFighting.com

Thanks to everyone for their support and we will have more news on upcoming events including new Regional Tournaments.

Sincerely,

Larry St. Clair
The Edge 2005