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Luke Broadlick entered and won his first tournament in forms as a beginner belt and that’s all it took, he was hooked.   Over the next 3 years he would go on to win 8 MARRS state championships in forms, weapons, and sparring in the state of Arizona .  Luke trains in Gilbert at DePalmas Team USA under Master Fred DePalma, Mr. Matt Watkins & Mrs. Diane Rose in American Kenpo.

In December 2003 he attained his first black belt and decided to try his hand at national competition by entering the 2004 COMPETE NASKA tournament in California .  Luke had quite an eye opening experience at that first National tournament but he saw what he would need to do to be able to compete with the national competitors and went home and went to work.  July 2004 Luke went to Camp Chat before the US Open and that changed his life forever.  

Not only did Luke get to train with World Champion Mike Chat but he met Sensei John Sharkey Jr. and Craig Henningsen who have become a large part of his life.  Craig gave Luke a private lesson at camp and he went on to place as a finalist in extreme forms at the US Open.  Luke then went on to compete the 2^nd half of 2004 on the NASKA circuit earning a year end top 10 finish in 4 events.  Luke also entered 3 WSKF tournaments and made it to his first night time finals at Michael Bernardo’s Canadian Open, he didn’t win but it gave him a taste of what was to come.  

Luke trained with Craig and Sensei Sharkey at each of the tournaments and flew to Naperville , IL to Sharkey’s karate as often as he could.  He really trained hard during the off season to be ready for the 2005 tournaments.  January 2005 Luke entered the WSKF Los Angeles Grand Nationals and won his first night time finals winning the 17 & under overall forms title.  He became a member of TEAM AKA and the NASKA season started off with a bang for Luke winning his first NASKA grand championship in creative/musical/extreme forms and his first NASKA overall grand championship at COMPETE.  

Along the way Luke was asked by World Champion Matthew Mullins to perform with his new performance team Sideswipe Kids.  The kids made some great demos that led to performing live on the Ellen DeGeneres show in February and he perfomed with Sideswipe Kids and the adult Sideswipe at an arena football game in MI in March.  

Luke has really enjoyed performing and wouldn’t mind someday getting into show business.  Luke’s hard work has paid off as he has earned his way to the night time finals in 4 of the 5 NASKA tournaments and winning 2 of them.  His goal this year is to win World Championships and with hard work, focus, and determination he will strive to reach that goal.  

Luke can’t wait for the next tournaments so he can see all the new friends he has made this year that he knows will be his life long friends.