What categories will you be competing in?: Team and Individual Hyungs and Sparring
What categories will you be competing in?: Dan Individual Sparring and Hyungs, Traditional, Chil sung, Chang Bong, and Open Weapons (Sword). What advice do you have for junior members in regards to their training: Be goal oriented. Always have something to focus your efforts on in class. Strive to push past your limitations one step at a time. Stretch a little further, kick a little higher, punch a bit faster. This way you'll always be improving yourself.
What categories will you be competing in?: Hyungs, Sparring. What motivates you to continue training in the TSDMGK system? Basically..every class presents a new opportunity for me to better myself...and the more I'm pushed, kicked,punched, and just schooled ...the more respect I have for the sport.......Tang Sooo ...all!!!!.
What categories will you be competing in?: I will be competing in Individual and Team sparring, and Hyungs. What advice do you have for junior members in regards to their training: My advice for anyone is to represent their school and organizations whenever and wherever possible by participating in tournaments and other martial arts related functions. I believe the best way to give back to one’s school and organization is to get out there and JUST DO IT!.
What categories will you be competing in?: Sparring, Weapons. What advice do you have for junior members in regards to their training: Train with discipline, heart and intensity. You must develop the desire to be a champion both in martial arts and in life.
What categories will you be competing in?: Dan Individual Sparring, Chil Sung Hyung, Traditional Hyung, Tanto Hyung. What are you most looking forward to on this trip?: Seeing the entire Tang Soo Do family. I can't wait to meet all the different people. Also just being in another country. Its going to be awesome!!.
What categories will you be competing in?: Dan Individual Sparring and Hyungs, Traditional, Chil sung, Chang Bong, and Open Weapons (Sword).
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Team Sparring and Individual Forms, Weapons, and Sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Forms.
What categories will you be competing in?: sparring,hyungs and weapons.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Forms.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Forms.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. What advice do you have for junior members in regards to their training: Keep training, do not give up, it makes you a stronger person with time.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
A Message from Kwan Jang Nim:
On March 19th a contingency from the United States of America will leave for the Netherlands to participate in the World Tang Soo Do Championships that will be held at Wilgenring Sportscenter, Rotterdam, Netherlands on Saturday and Sunday 21st and 22nd of March. At the time of this writing 12 countries besides the USA have committed to participating in this event. The participating countries are: Belgium; Denmark; France; Germany; Great Britain; Haiti; Holland; India; Poland; Scotland; South Africa; Spain; USA. The next All Tang Soo Do International Championship will be held in July 2011 in
the USA.
Competition will be held for individuals as well as international forms and sparring teams.
Competing in the individual competition (hyungs, weapons and sparring) for Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA will be the following individuals:
Head Coach - Grandmaster Charles Ferraro, 8th dan - CT
Associate Head Coach - Sa Bom Nim Rich Kopf, 7th dan - CT
Assistant Coaches - Sa Bom Nim George Klinedinst, 6th dan - PA
Sa Bom Nim Jeff Talavera, 6th Dan - CT
Sa Bom Nim Tom Cox - 5th dan - TX
Also accompanying Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA are family members and friends:
Geralyn Ferraro, CT; Lavan Norwood, CT; Michael McGinnis, CT; Luis Guerrero, CT; Jamie Guerrero, CT; Jasmine Guerrero, CT; Wendy Keefe, PA; Susan Shupp, PA; Melissa Bottomley, PA; Ruth Klinedinst, PA; Rose Ehlers, PA; Jeanie Cox, TX; Laws Kidwell, TX; Effie Prokopis, CT; Jennifer Byrne, Dublin Ireland
Brandon Ferraro - 1st place
Kodanja Sparring Heavyweight
James Bergers - 1st place
Kodanja Sparring Lightweight
Christopher Ferraro - 2nd place
Kodanja Sparring Lightweight
Omar Yacoub - 3rd place
Kodanja Sparring Lightweight -
Grand Champion Chil Sung Forms
Derik Weber - 1st place Men's Middleweight Sparring
Joseph McAuliffe - 2nd place Men's 2nd and 3rd Dan Heavyweight
Terra Em Steele - 3rd Women's Sparring
Connor McGinnis - 1st place
Junior Dan Sparring
Kyle McGinnis - 2nd place Junior Dan Sparring - Tanto Grand Champion
- Open Weapons Grand Champion
Ryan Guerrero - 2nd place 13-15 Dan Sparring
Team Sparring: Jeff Talevera, James Bergers, Christopher Ferraro,
Omar Yacoub, Brandon Ferraro (injured Dave Cox and alternate Steven
Kearns) - 1st Place
Medal Tally:
(29 competitors)
22 Gold
19 Silver
10 Bronze
Gold in Team Sparring
Silver in Team Forms
3 Grand Championships
Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA: Day 3
We have just finished with the day of fighting. Everyone did amazing. No exact results of individuals yet. But I can tell you Ryan G took 2nd in his fighting division. SBN B. Ferraro won heavyweight kodanja and SBN Bergers(1st) SBN Yacoub (2nd) and SBN C.Ferraro (3rd) in the light weight kodanja division. Derek Weber won his division....
And by the way, Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA are the International Team Fighting Champions. SBN Cox broke his toe so SBN Yacoub stepped in as our alternate. The Team was SBNs: Talavera, C. Ferraro, B. Ferraro, J. Bergers, and Yacoub.
Time to celebrate... sorry for the lack of details, tomorrow will bring the full scoop.
Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA: Day 2
This one will have to be short - Its 1am and we all have to be up at 6am for day two - sparring day. Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA represented today and I think everyone back home would be proud. Below is a "short" list of all of our team's accomplishments today during forms and weapons competitions:
Team Form -
2nd Place: Ryan Guerrero, Connor McGinnis, Kyle McGinnis
Kodanja Traditional Form -
1st Place Omar Yacoub
Women's Dan Traditional Form -
2nd Place Katie Keefe
3rd Place Sarah Heinz
15 and Under Dan Traditional Form - 1st Kyle McGinnis
2nd ConnorMcGinnis
3rd Ryan Guerrero
Kodanja Chil Sung Form -
1st Place Omar Yacoub
2nd Place James Bergers
3rd Place Brandon Ferraro
15 and Under Dan Chil Sung Form -
1st Kyle McGinnis
2nd Ryan Guerrero
3rd Connor McGinnis
Men and Women Dan Chil Sung -
1st Derrick Weber,
2nd Sarah Heinz
3rd Marlisa Rodriquez
Men Dan Traditional Form -
1st Derrick Weber
Kodanja Chang Bong -
1st Brandon Ferraro
Men and Women Dan Tando Form -
1st Katie Keefe
Kodanja Tando Form -
2nd Steve Kearns
Kodanja Open Weapons -
1st James Bergers
2nd Christopher Ferraro
3rd Peter Prokopis
Children Dan Open Weapons -
1st Kyle McGinnis,
2nd Ryan Guerrero,
3rdConnor McGinnis
Children Dan Tando -
1st Kyle McGinnis
Dan Adult Tando 1st Dan -
2nd Marlisa Marlisa Rodriquez
Dan Adult Tando 2nd Dan-
1st Jason Thornhill,
2nd Sarah Heines
Dan Adult Tando 3rd Dan -
1st Katie Keefe
Red Belt Men's Chang Bong -
2nd Robbie Bottomley 1st Dan
Children Dan Chang Bong -
1st Isaiah Schupp
2nd Connor McGinnis
1-3 Kup Chang Bong - Robert Bottomley
Not so bad, huh? Especially considering that there were over 500 competitors on the floor today. Well, as I said, tomorrow is another day and coming on fast. The team is focused and the individualcompetitors are on their game after today's performance. We'll be back tomorrow to post the final results - until then, Tang Soo!
Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA: Day 1
The team all met early Thursday afternoon at JFK airport. Traveling to the Netherlands was a long and thankfully uneventful journey, yet the team bonds have already begun to build among the members. Even though sitting on the runway for an hour and an eight hour flight, the plane ride was nonetheless very fun. Despite KJN's "dominant performance" at onboard trivia, Master Terra Steele from PA and Linda Goodman from CT were a pretty tough bunch to beat. Upon arrival during the early morning hours, we were met by a wonderful lady who was a great tour guide for our morning excursions. She took us through several small farming villages before reaching Amsterdam. She was very informative, and I'm sure everyone took a little something away from her historical facts of this country. We stopped at a quaint little town outside of the Schiphol airport. Here, we saw the great art of wooden shoe making of Amsterdam. This trade was invented hundreds of years ago, but is still used today, as many of the people here still wear them for outside use and for keeping warm. As we made our way through the community, the sites of traditional Holland were a plenty; in fact, it is one of the only towns left in the country that still has active windmills. There were once over 15,000 windmills located here in Amsterdam before its Industrial Revolution; now there are less than 1,000. Also in the town, and a definitive highlight for most in our group, was a delicious cheese farm. A village woman gave us a demonstration of how they make and then age the cheeses anywhere from 1 month to 3 years. After the demonstration, everyone had afield day with sampling over 30 different cheeses; kudos to these folks for creating the best pesto infused cheese this side of the Atlantic. Finally, the bus took us to the Rho Hotel, located one of the most "unique" city centers in the world. While some took time to rest (at this point we were going on 32 hours of no sleep), the more die-hard members of the group went out and started the exploration. All and all, the majority of us were content with having a nice relaxing night because of the early competition ahead of us for the next two days. Every one is pumped up and ready to get out there tomorrow morning and compete and to represent Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA. Tomorrow all of us will be competing in individual forms and weapons. Ryan Guerrero, Kyle McGinnis, and Connor McGinnis from Shelton, CT are excited to represent us in the team form competition with the hyung they demonstrated at our National tournament this past year. Team Mi Guk Kwan, USA signing out... Wish us luck and Tang Soo!
Don't forget to check the Calendar page for a complete listing of up coming events...
2009 CT State TSD Championship results >Click Here
What categories will you be competing in?: Team and Individual Hyungs and Sparring
What categories will you be competing in?: Dan Individual Sparring and Hyungs, Traditional, Chil sung, Chang Bong, and Open Weapons (Sword). 
What categories will you be competing in?: Hyungs, Sparring. 
What categories will you be competing in?: I will be competing in Individual and Team sparring, and Hyungs. 
What categories will you be competing in?: Sparring, Weapons. 
What categories will you be competing in?: Dan Individual Sparring, Chil Sung Hyung, Traditional Hyung, Tanto Hyung. 
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Team Sparring and Individual Forms, Weapons, and Sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Forms.
What categories will you be competing in?: sparring,hyungs and weapons.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Forms.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Forms.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring. Team Sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
What categories will you be competing in?: Individual hyungs, weapons and sparring.
