It has been a few days since I updated here, but for good reason.  This past weekend I battled out several championship rounds of food poisoning.  Certainly a worthy opponent, this food poisoning, but in the end who’s still standing?!  You know this!
It definitely was not what I had on the agenda over the weekend [...]

Hey everyone…special news flash straight from the desks of Kickgen.com.  If you are a martial artist (or think you’ve got what it takes…) then get to it!
New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Motion Picture Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in association with Mirage Studios, 4Kids Entertainment and TMNT Productions, will host an OPEN CASTING CALL for martial [...]

Doug and Michael McGannon, fresh off of an exciting competition at the 2009 U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championships, are set to demonstrate Self Defense principles and techniques at Valencia Community College this week.  This will be a one-time event when Doug is given special permission to join Michael during one of his classes to [...]

Here are some fun pics of people I got to meet and hang out with as well as some more competition pics.  More will come in future posts as I have time.  Right now I am back to preparing for more tournaments and working with a couple of organizations in the Orlando area on the [...]

I am setting up right now for tonight’s LIVE Stream Broadcast of the 2009 U.S. Open Night of Champions!  This is so exciting and you are going to LOVE this event.  The Best of the best of the best in the world on tonight’s stage.  Go to www.kickgen.com and click on the Kickgen LIVE tab [...]

Competition is still going strong at the 2009 U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championships.  We have taken a break after our day’s events and grabbing something to eat, getting some rest, and prepping for tomorrow.  The day started off pretty calm and got a little crazy come event time.
The team synchronized event (for me and [...]

On our way to the Disney Coronado Springs Resort for the 2009 U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championships…BREEEAAATHE!
Hope to see all of you there.  Details and info in my last two posts as to where I will be over the course of the next couple of days.  I will post as I have [...]

…I salute you!!!
Well, here we are friends!  This is the Final Countdown (another shameless tribute to big music and big hair from the past :)  Tomorrow begins the world’s most prestigious Martial Arts tournament…the 2009 U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championships.  Martial Artists from all over the globe are converging on Orlando as I type (they have [...]