JB- Matt, a big part of your passion for martial arts is in the teaching of it. You put on workshops and training camps all over the place. What do you hope others get from your instruction? And can anybody do this stuff?

Matt- Well, extreme martial arts is not just about doing the moves, it's also part of the attitude and energy that you do in your performance. It's really about self-expression. Really anybody can learn how to do certain techniques, but I mean it's just like anything else. If you want to be good about something, you just have to practise at it.

All of us actually go around hosting seminars all around the country and around the world. We've done training camps in Los Angeles, Texas, Chicago, and we're really excited at being able to expose this side of martial arts because it's a very positive side of the martial arts side. It's really about self-expression.

JB- Much of that exposure, though, was of course on America's Got Talent. Chris, what made you guys try out for the show?

Chris- Well, we actually tried out for the show last year, but basically we made it and made it through the first round of competition and everything, and we couldn't continue because we were on contract with another TV show at the same time. Basically for a year the only thing that was on our minds was getting back to America's Got Talent and actually getting our full chance.

As far was why we started the first time, America's Got Talent just gives you the potential to show your talent to everyone in America. All the shows that we've done up to this point have been amazing and wonderful, but on a smaller field. We haven't really gotten the opportunity to show 20 million people what we can do and America' s Got Talent really gave us that ability.

JB- Right. Gave you the platform to do it. So Craig, what's with this whole shirtless thing? Matt, I said before we all connected on the phone that I was in my boss' office and she was going gaga on your website with the different videos and pictures and stuff. So the shirtless thing, Craig, is that how you always perform? Or was this something that you did to get votes on the show? Where did that all happen?

Craig- We actually …a few years back when Matt and a couple other guys were doing this kind of stuff - I think it was like on 30 Seconds to Fame - it was just an extra boost to the show. Matt was really into wrestling and still is, and I think it was one of the characters on the wrestling show, you know. You rip off your shirt and stuff. It's not to get extra votes. It's just something in our bag of goodies that we can express to the public and just kind of extra theatrical . . .

JB- Well, you showed your goodies.

Craig- Yeah, I mean….

(Laughter)

Craig- No, I mean, it's just something extra that we have. Not to get extra votes but to kind of show off a little bit.

JB- Do you think it helped?

Craig- A little bit. We've got the comments and e-mails about how ripping off our shirts is one of the best things we do, besides flipping up in the air and doing all those crazy twists. People enjoy the ripping of the shirts and we don't know why. It's just what it is.

JB- So did Springer audition for you? What was with that? When his shirt came off.

Craig- (laughing) He actually didn't do it with our group. He did it with another guy, but Jerry Springer was a really cool dude, man. He's so down to earth and he's been on TV for a long time. He had the number one rated show. He could be a real jerk and everyone would understand, but he's just a really cool down to earth guy. He's just really funny.

JB- Jackson, I'm sure you've looked back at your appearances on America's Got Talent. Is there anything that you would change about what all of you did there?

Jackson- Would we change anything that we did? I really don't think so.

JB- Would you do anything differently?

Jackson- Because of last year, I think, we had to be taken off the show, this year we really thought about what we wanted to do, and from week to week all we could think about was what we could do to make the hype even greater. You know, the skill level even more difficult, just to please the audience even more. So I think throughout this season what we really thought about was to do the best we could do every week. The decisions that we made to do that - whether it was bringing the kids on with what the judges said…the negative comments said about that - I really don't think we would've taken that away if we had the second chance. I really feel we played our cards the way we wanted to play our cards and I think we did a very great job in doing that. No, I really don't think we would've changed anything.

JB- You mentioned the kids. Matt, so you did take a bit of criticism for incorporating them into the act during one of the performances. Judges didn't like that idea. You stood behind it. In hindsight, was it a smart move? Do you think it lost you some votes?

Matt- Actually, you can probably look at it. …for me personally, it was a great thing. First of all, there's very few times in somebody's life where all of us will get a chance to state what we believe in and state our goals and really say straight up what we're about. So in one sense it gave as all an opportunity to be like, 'We don't care what you think. This is our performance. This is what we do.' So for that instance it was very good. To have the opportunity to do that, I'm sure in the long run ended up helping us get votes. But again, as Jackson was saying we would not have changed anything because it's what we believe in.

Part of the reason to be on the show is: one, of course, is to win and get votes. But the other thing is to do what you do and that's what we do. We do themes. We have students who are phenomenal and outstanding that we perform with as well. It's all part of what we do, and we wouldn't have changed one bit of it.