Chris Leckness » Brett

Brett Leckness = Ted Williams!

Chris — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:04:00 +0000

Haha… not really, but I am really proud of him. He has quit karate now (right before Black Belt too) and taken up Baseball. He is in his 1st real season now. When I say real, he has played a “mini” fall season, but there is really no time for practice and skill development in that short season. So anyhow, he’s picked up this game fast and last night was the best night of his short career.

I have been working with him at the batting cage a lot lately and we’ve taken his lefty swing from being a stand still, poke at the ball swing into an almost real swing. He still has to work on his pivot foot and shifting his weight better though. He’s seeing the ball good and when he gets a hold of one, he’s hammering it. The coaches have noticed his improvement too and moved him up to hitting #5 last night. Brett is 7 and the league is for 7/8 year olds. Batters 1-4 are all 8 year olds and they normally generate the majority of the teams runs.

Why so proud last night? Well the 1-4 hitters got on base everytime and Brett got to clear them off a few times. Brett went 2-3 with 6 RBIs and 1 run score last night. The 1st at bat, runners were on 2nd and 3rd and he nailed one right between 1st and 2nd. The right fielder got it in fast, but 2 runs scored and Brett had to stay on 1st. He eventually scored though. Next at bat, same thing… runners on 2nd and 3rd. He hit a line drive just over the 1st basemen’s head. 2 runs score, Brett gets to 2nd. 1st double of the year too. Next batter gets a single and Brett holds at 2nd. Next batter hit a grounder to 3rd and steps on the bag, Brett’s out and really pissed off that they didn’t tag him. He thought he was safe. I had to explain the force out thing to him. He was so upset. His last at bat, runners on 2nd and 3rd AGAIN. Brett hit a routine grounder to 1st. Runner from 3rd scores, 1st basemen throws to 3rd, but the 3rd basemen misses and the other runner scores. I call that 2 more RBI, but technically it’s only 1.

Congrats Brett! What a game!

PS. They lost 12-13.

Update on my kiddos…

Chris — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:15:28 +0000

For anyone that cares, here’s what’s up with Brittney and Brett. It’s been a while since I have posted here, sorry.

Brittney is 16, almost 17 now. What happened to the little bitty girl sporting the Aximsite tshirt for the readers almost 10 years ago. She is driving and we gave her my wife’s old Nissan Altima. My wife got here one of them there fancy cars now, a Volvo XC90 SUV. Brittney went to her 1st prom last weekend and she hated it. She said all the do at prom is dance. DUH… what did you expect? Mini golf? Anyhow, her grades are almost perfect as they have been all through High School. Unless she steers off course, I see an academic scholarship coming her way. Good job Britt!

Brett quit Taekwondo finally. He tried quitting before, but we always talked him back into it. I really wanted him to get his black belt 1st. That’s the reason he quit I think. He failed his 1st black belt testing and was so discouraged that he didn’t want to go anymore. We forced him for a couple weeks, but we quickly figured out he really didn’t want to go anymore. With baseball season approaching, we let up and let him quit. I am disappointed, but I don’t want to force things on him. Now, he’s in his 1st “real” season in baseball. 7 and 8 year old league uses 43 mph pitching machines. He’s batting about .500 for the year. Normally he gets up to bat 2-3 times and has hit 1-2 times safely in each game, except 1.

Me, I spend a lot of my time watching MMA and other sports as well as movies. 2012 disappointed me, but Blind Side was freaking awesome. I have also started playing video game more, PC games like World of Warcraft and PS3 sports games mostly.

I plan to write more soon. Been taking lots of needed time off.

Brett’s ITA State Tournament Video

Chris — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:03:12 +0000

Brett was in the 2009 ITA State Tournament yesterday. He is a red belt and he competed against 2 other red belts and 3 senior red belts yesterday. He finished 3rd of 6 in form and he finished 1st of 6 in sparring. He won 5-3, 5-0. 5-1 and had to face his friend Harrison for the gold. Here’s a little video I threw together from the footage. Congrats Brett. We are so proud of you.

Brett at the 2009 ITA State Tournament from Chris Leckness on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving Lunch at my Son’s School.

Chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:02:44 +0000

Good Times, Bad Food. Ok, it was awful, but some of it tasted like the milk carton my chocolate milk came in. Believe it or not, their steamed veggies were on par with good restaurants. I could have replaced the turkey and dressing with it and been better off. Anyhow, it was about spending some time with the boy, not the food anyway. Good times…

As you can see in my son’s tray, he went traditional with his meal. I tried to get him to turkey up with me.

Brett’s Last Fall League Game Photos

Chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:51:50 +0000

Here are just a few random photos my wife took. Most of them didn’t come out too well but it’s ok, I’ll get more in the spring. (hopefully)

Read on for a few more. If you are looking for the raw team photos, I am linking them at the end of this.

Here are 3 different team pictures in untouched format. If you want to try to fix my bad shots. Shadows were bad where we were. Caps off next time I think.

Right click and save as to grab the photos above.

Brett’s Red Belt Testing

Chris — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:37:01 +0000

My 7 year old son Brett is almost a Black Belt in Taekwondo. He tested and passed to Red Belt yesterday. He has to test for Senior Red in a few months, then Black Belt. It’s a good thing too. He is getting into baseball more and more and is getting bored with Taekwondo. After he hits black, he plans to quit and start Jin-Jitsu at the same place he’s doing Taekwondo now.

Brett is on the right. Read on for a few more pictures!

Some Photos of Brett

Chris — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:38:40 +0000

My daughter Brittney is in a photography class at her school and she’s been snapping photos right and left. I decided to snatch a couple of them for a post. She’s the one taking the photos, so it’s only Brett in the pictures. Click them to make them larger.

Brett Sparring as a Green Belt

Chris — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:55:39 +0000

Brett got his green belt a couple weeks ago and I shot some photos at his 1st sparring session…