2009 Virginia State Taekwondo Championship

2009 Virginia State
Taekwondo Championships

This tournament was sponsored by Grandmaster Byung Kon Cho of Cho's Black Belt Academy
and will be held at the Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA on March 28, 2009.

Another great tournament for our growing team. With a 3 hour drive we assumed that participation wouldn't be up to par but were glad to see that assumption was wrong. 8 participants won a total of 16 medals (stats below) and proved that the pride that Master Tinnon and Coach Sarris have in the growing Competition Team is well founded. For those who aren't familiar with the typical size of most competition teams, ours is on the small side. It should be noted however that those participating seem to consistently medal.

OUTSTANDING JOB TEAM!!!

	Forms	Breaking	Sparring
Rebecca Hunt	Gold		Gold
Paul Spencer			Gold
Sheila Llanderal	Gold		Gold
Logan Boesch	Gold	Silver	Gold
Ashley Harris	Gold		Gold
Jon Spencer	Silver		Gold
Rebekah Wetter	Gold		Gold
Debra Rosado	Gold		Gold

Photo Gallery
Due to the number of photos I won't attempt to caption the majority of them.
A few however I couldn't help but add a little something.
Thanks to Trish Tinnon for manning the camera while the rest of us had our "fun"

The 2009 Virginia State Taekwondo Championships had some surprises in store for us this year...

An unexpected surprise? It certainly was for us...
One of the special guests was none other than Master Jhoon Rhee himself. At 77 he serves all practitioners of Martial Arts as an example in longevity, generosity, and fortitude. After a short demonstration of breaking and stretching he gave an emotional (for some of us) motivational speech that won't soon be forgotten.