Jake Fischer – Kendama USA ® https://kendamausa.com Americas Original Kendama Company Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:58:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://kendamausa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Kendama-USA-favicon-1.png Jake Fischer – Kendama USA ® https://kendamausa.com 32 32 Battle at the Border (BATB) 2017 Recap https://kendamausa.com/battle-at-the-border-batb-2017-recap/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:05:19 +0000 https://kendamausa.com/?p=9606 Battle at the Border 2017 was an awesome event hosted by Chad Covington of Sol Kendamas. This year\’s turnout exceeded expectations, with almost 100 Kendama players in attendance. BATB17 was held in the historic Foundry building near downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The weather was pretty crazy in the southeastern U.S with snow and freezing rain but that didn’t stop groups like DKT, Grande Squad, Pineapple Kendama and others from making the drive. There were twenty two sponsors for the event including Kendama USA, Sol Kendamas, Sweets Kendamas, KROM, Terra Kendama, Grain Theory, RWB and more. As a result, there were tons of mini games and prizes given out throughout the event.

The freestyle competition had some of the most creative tricks around and some of the craziest bangers thrown on stage. The finals came down to a match between Jake Fisher & Max Norcross. Max Norcross nearly won however Jake Fisher came away with the win. Pictured below are the winners of the freestyle event:

From left to right: 4th – Christian Fraser, 3rd – Cam Herrero, 2nd – Max Norcross, 1st – Jake Fischer

The Open division was intense from the first match up to the final round with Liam Router and Ben Herald going head to head for the title of Battle at the Border and Liam taking the victory.

4th – Johnny Kress, 3rd – Blair Sylvester Wesley, 2nd – Ben Herald, 1st – Liam Rauter

 There were also beginner, intermediate, and advanced ladders that were done during the event as well. Here are the winners for those divisions:

Beginner: 3rd – Lilly Kosicki, 2nd – Alex Jorgenson, 1st – Fame Cristobal

Intermediate: 4th – Tristen Wareham, 3rd – Dalton Hodge, 2nd – Carlos Castro, 1st – Walker Lifsey

Advanced: 4th – John Coffman, 3rd – Antonio Cecchetti, 2nd – Nick Dodenhoff, 1st – Caleb Rush

Again congratulations to all who placed in any of the divisions this year and thanks to Chad Covington and Sol Kendamas for throwing a fantastic event!

]]> Battle at the Border 2016 Recap https://kendamausa.com/battle-at-the-border-recap-by-ryan-plourd/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:21:39 +0000 https://kendamausa.com/battle-at-the-border-recap-by-ryan-plourd/ This year’s Winter Edition of Battle at the Border; BATB, was the best yet. The turn out was great and players from all over came together not only to test & hone their skills, but to make new friends, get to know old friends a bit better and grow as a community. Congratulations to all the competitors and winners, and thank you to Chad and Shelton Covington for putting on a great event. We can’t wait for this year’s Summer BATB.

If you didn’t catch the winners of BATB:

Open Division:
1. Kevin DeSoto
2. Lyndon Whalen
3. Christian Fraser
4. Jackson Stanek

Freestyle:
1. Jake Fischer
2. Kevin DeSoto
3. Christian Fraser
4. Wesley Carkonen

*Austin Ring took first in the opposite hand ladders.
*Zach Porter took first in Race to Lace, landing all his tricks 1st try.

Zach Porter ending a combo in Race to Lace.

Post BATB Jam – The Parthenon, Nashville, TN:

Austin Ring casually Stilting

Host Chad Convington, Jake Fischer, & Wesley Carkonen

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