This past week I had the opportunity to be a guest speaker on Oklahoma Sports & Fitness’s new radio show “On Your Mark” on Tulsa’s 1430 THE BUZZ radio station.  This new show focuses on health promotion in the Tulsa area.  Sean Call, the editor of Oklahoma Sports & Fitness magazine and Jeremie Poplin host the show which airs every Thursday night at 6:30.  Poplin, who lost his father to a heart attack made a drastic change in his lifestyle and has lost a significant amount of weight.  The two teamed up and came up with an idea to infuse the Tulsa area with health and fitness tips and motivations.  It’s a fantastic show and caters to the elite endurance athlete, bodybuilders, gym rats, and even the person who is just wanting to get off of the couch and do something.  This new show is an excellent resource for the Tulsa area and compliments the already outstanding magazine.  I’ve shortened the interview to cut out the commercials for the purpose of this blog, the original has 10 minutes of ads.  Our very first radio spot is at the very end of the broadcast.  I will be doing another half hour interview spot in the spring which should be a lot of fun.  I had a great time in the studio with Sean and Jeremie and hope that I brought some things to the attention of Tulsa listeners that will affect their training positively!  -Barnezy-

This past weekend I graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree.  This marked the end of nearly four years of post-graduated studies.  My professional name will now be “Chris Barnes DC.”  It has been a long hard road to get here, but I wouldn’t change anything about it.  Ali and I moved to Overland Park, KS in July of 2007.  We have literally been in Kansas for 90% of our married lives.  We thought we would just move up here and knock this whole school thing out.  However, we have met some incredible people and Kansas has become such a wonderful home for us.  It will be incredibly hard for us to this place but we will always try to make time to visit Kansas City.  The beauty of Overland Park is that it’s less than four hours from Tulsa!  I have learned a great deal in the last four years, but I’m even more excited about the things I will continue to learn.  I will be starting a practice in Tulsa, OK within the office of Peterson Chiropractic.  Ali and I will be relocating to Broken Arrow, OK in late May and Ali will hopefully be getting a new job around the same time.  I will continue to visit KC throughout the summer for miscellaneous seminars so it will be a nice slow goodbye.  I wanted to thank everyone who has made Kansas City such a great home these past few years.  We will not forget all of the wonderful people… and barbecue!  Check back regularly as we have lot of other great things to share with you all.  And yes, from now on you must call me “Dr. Barnes!” -Barnezy-

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I spent this past weekend in Cincinnati for an Active Release Techniques – Long Tract Nerve seminar. This was my final ART seminar of school and a great one to end on.  I’m not an “ART Doc” per se but I do utilize the technique in a good chunk of patients. I had never been to Cincinnati before so I had to lug along a camera and tripod.  I spent friday afternoon at Mount Lookout Chiropractic shadowing Dr. Mark King who is the president of the Motion Palpation Institute.  My good friend Alan Yoder has been doing his Chiropractic internship at this clinic since January.  Friday night I got to eat one of the best hamburgers I’ve ever had at “Terry’s Turf Club.”   Saturday we spent the day at the ART Seminar followed up by some of the best hot dogs I’ve ever eaten at “Senate” restaurant.  It was a gorgeous night in Cincy so Yoder and I drug our tripods around and took some photos of some of the bridges and the skyline.  On Sunday, we ventured out to the Keeneland horse races in Kentucky.  I lost two dollars but Alan turned $5 into $76 on his first ever horse bet.  We left immediately afterwards before Alan’s luck changed.  Monday we drove back to Kansas City in preparation for our graduation from Chiropractic school.  I still can’t believe it’s been four years!  I’ll be blogging a lot this next month with so many life transitions so check back to see the craziness that’s taking place.  Hope you all are doing well! -Barnezy-

Merry Christmas!  What a lazy day!  I’ve been sitting around all day enjoying doing absolutely nothing!  It’s been a great time spending time with my family and just taking it easy for a change.  We’ve opened lots of presents and eaten tons of good food!  I’ve really missed being back home and this has been a great vacation.  My shoulder is healing up nicely from last week’s shoulder surgery as well.    I can almost lift my arm over my head and I get better every day.  Ali and I got some money to put towards our Hawaii trip so we’re super-excited about how much fun we’ll be having in three short months.  Here’s a few photos from this weekend…

Well it’s also been one year to the day that my Mother-in-law and Grandmother-in-law teamed up to get me one heck of a Christmas present.  They both chipped in to buy me the wordpress blogging software ProPhoto so that I could rebuild my aging and nearly-abandoned website from the ground up.  With this new software I was able to rebuild my website in a much more user-friendly format.  The photos and videos in particular became much faster to view.  The video quality went from youtube quality at best to 720p HD video.  Blogs and updates were incredibly hard with my old website.  I had made one update the past 1.5 years I had my old website.  This year I have made 80 blog posts to the date!  I’m so thankful to have such a nice site to showcase some of my work on.  I hope that I’ll always have time to continue to add as my experiences grow.  Apparently my website is actually worth something as well.  Due to the high traffic I see daily thanks largely in-part to our now famous proposal video, my website is worth $8,600.00.  Of course I would never sell it, but it’s really nice to know that people visit regularly!  I really do appreciate all of the wonderful comments all of you have left on my website.  It’s so nice to know that some of the virtues my wife and I strive for are still held by so many others!  The next few days will be a whirlwind but our new years plans to be quite interesting this year.  Check back on New Years Day for  an update on all of the crazy things happening!  We hope you all enjoyed Christmas and hope that you were able to spend it with those whom you love.  It is never my point to rub religion in the face of anyone, but I do hope that Christ is honored in the manner in which you celebrate Christmas each year. -Barnezy-

This past Saturday, the Williams’ Route 66 5K and Quarter Marathon took place in the Blue Dome district in downtown Tulsa.  There were over 2,000 participants this year and a ton of cheering fans to go with them.  I was commissioned by the marathon director to primarily stick by the finish line to try and get those great faces as people finished so the majority of my photos were taken inside of a few square blocks.  I didn’t really mind this because carrying my gear around tends to get heavy after a while.  This was a fantastic event with well over 400 volunteers involved.   The race started and finished at the front door of the new Fleet Feet Tulsa in the Blue Dome District.  This is a great new running store that’s sure to become a hot spot with the running community!  After shooting the marathon I had a few hours to recharge my batteries and catch my breath before driving the Muskogee, OK to shoot a wedding.  I took along my good friend Jared Glover for his first experience as a second wedding photographer.  He had a blast and took some great photos.  I’ll be posting photos from the wedding sometime within the next week or so.  My finals begin this week and carry through next week.  We also have board reviews for five days out of my trimester break.  I’m not a huge fan of the situation, but if I pass my boards it’ll be worth it.  Things are beginning to get busy in the clinic and should become very busy this next month with being able to work in the clinic nearly the entire day.  So if you’re in KC, and your back, neck, shoulders, knees ( you get the point)  hurt, drop me a line and come see me!  -Barnezy-