The River 99.5 WRVE Rocks on Glass August 10, 1999 Grand Master Crandall was asked to teach two Albany radio celebrities to walk barefoot on glass Grand Master Crandall was contacted by WRVE, a top radio station in New York State's Capital, Albany, and asked if he would teach their two morning celebrities, Lisa Reichwein and Tom Kief, to walk barefoot in glass. Grand Master Crandall's response was yes. To do this Lisa and Tom were to begin training in the martial arts and in the control of their body through the use of their conscious mind. This training would take two weeks and involve a great deal of mental study and physical work on the part of these two individuals. Something about the Show called "The Rock and Roll Breakfast." This good morning wake up show for the Capital District starts at 5:00 a.m. and ends at 10:00 a.m. Tom Kief and Lisa Reichwein start your day with some good clean fun, and a lot of excellent music. The show includes 11 River Traffic reports from the River Air Ship airplane plus weather and seven top news breaks. What was to happen? After two weeks of training Lisa was to walk over a four-foot tray of broken glass while the show was airing live to its listeners. If she succeded without getting ripped to shreds, Tom had agreed to do it also. The training began and nothing was held back. Both Lisa and Tom trained for two-and-a-half hours in their first class. Grand Master Crandall commented "These two individuals are good students, they're focused, hard workers and want to learn all they can during the training." After the second three-hour class, Grand Master Crandall said that Lisa and Tom demonstrated the kind of attitude and enthusiasm that makes teaching a pleasure and that he saw no difficulty in bringing their understanding of body control and the conscious and subconscious mind together for a successful walk on glass. Master Allen Hillicoss, who was assisting Grand Master Crandall in the instruction, commented that Lisa and Tom were exactly the kind of students martial arts schools look for. The remaining classes went just as well and finally the day had come. August 10, 1999 Grand Master Crandall and Master Allen Hillicoss arrived at the Radio Station at 6:15 a.m. and began setting up. At 6:30 the radio waves were alive with the talk between four individuals about what would be happening over the next two hours. First Lisa was going to break two boards with her bare hand and then Tom was to do the same. After some music, news and traffic reports Lisa would walk across the tray of glass. Twenty minutes later Tom was to do the same (if she succeeded). Lisa and Tom kicking their way to a new level and punching to exhaustion. Still doing their job, but realizing any time now the challenge would be theirs. Great power and focus is seen here as Lisa breaks the wood Left Grand Master Crandall and to her right Tom Kief holding the mike. Tom follows with a powerful blast into the wood, left Master Hillicoss. Lisa gets ready and Tom discusses the three new bottles that had just been broken in front of everyone and added to the tray of glass. Lisa walks the distance and wipes the pieces of glass hanging onto her feet off and it is done. With many people people standing in the lobby, a roar of applause and congratulations go out as she steps away from the towel uncut. Now it's Tom's turn and he disappoints no one with his focus and successful walk across the tray of glass. This picture was taken the day before the walk at the end of the last class. Our congratulations to Lisa Reichwein and Tom Kief for doing a great job. Truly a successful day for everyone.