2010 Martial Artists Fighting Hunger Challenge Benefits Second Harvest Food Bank

Aug. 29, 2010 - PRLog -- The Tae Kwon Do Club at UCF hosted Martial Artists Fighting Hunger's 2010 Challenge Saturday, an athletic skill competition event. Martial artists of all ages and levels participated in the event in which athletes were timed in a sequence of challenges. The contestant with the fastest time overall won.

Once the officials started the timers, the contestants raced through 6 phases of skill testing: accuracy, agility, kicking accuracy, take-downs, jumping and speed.  

There were 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies for the contestants in each division. There were six divisions, starting with ages 5 thru 7 up through the over 40 group. Seperate awards were given for males and females in each division until the Grand Championship.  All participants will got a free t-shirt sponsored by Logos Promote.

Karate Depot, Tan Dao Kung Fu, comBATON, Jackie Detaille and others  donated some great prizes and an iPod Touch was raffled off. There were other goodies as well.

The overall Grand Champion was Colton Blake of the 14-17 year olds who bested last year's Grand Champion, 21 year old CJ Vickers by one-tenth of a second. Colton won a $25.00 Olive Garden gift certificate, a chest protector and a backpack, all donated by comBATON as well as a sparring gear set donated by Karate Depot. He will also receive a Tiger Claw Kung Fu DVD donated by Tan Dao Kung Fu. Colton is student at Richard Hoehn's MMAT Academy in Winter Springs, Florida.

The Division winners were given a choice of a backpack or chest protector donated by comBATON. They also received trophies. Competition was fierce and several competitors won by less than a second. The winners were:

Nina Moyer
Michael Choujian
Ryan Spidell
Kate Eckstein-Schoeman
Hunter Weathers
Iris Johnson
Megan Moore
CJ Vickers
Gayle Goretsky
Joel Perez
Nina

Donations to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank included a conference table full of food and  $355.00 in cash. For every dollar donated, Second Harvest Food Bank can provide up to $9 in food value for people in need. An amazing 96% of all financial contributions go directly to programs feeding our hungry neighbors rather than to administration or fundraising.

Martial Artists Fighting Hunger thanks the Taekwondo Club at UCF, the donors, the volunteers and the officials for making this event a success. September is Hunger Action Month and we kicked it off a little early to avoid competing with the football season as many of our competitiors are multi-sport athletes. We look forward to repeating this event in the future.

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comBATON is a Martial Arts Team Sport. It is also known as Kung Fu Football. All players are martial artists and may be trained in Karate, MMA, Taekwondo, Kung Fu, etc.