Two MuSool Students Pass for Yellow Belt

Two MuSool students tested and received their yellow belts this week. Due to illness Samantha Babiez and Andrew Lenois could not test on October 10th with the rest of the students. The MuSool Black Belts granted them permission to do a special make up testing on October 20th and 21st. Both students did excellent and passed with flying colors.

Womens Self-Defense Seminar Forming

Many of you know Master Vega who teaches Hapkido with MAster Creech on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Mr. Vega and his wife have taken a unique approach to self defense for women. Simple Self Defense for Women focuses on, how to escape an attack and not stay and fight. This is a one time session for two hours for women who want to simply know a few techniques on how to escape when someone attacks you. This session will not ask you to take your shoes off and you will not be thrown around. This program focuses on four core techniques that will allow women of all ages, from teens to seniors to escape from most types of attacks.

This is not a comprehensive course on self defense, if that is what you want then please attend our Hapkido classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

Every women should know a few techniques on how to escape an attack and this programs covers that.

The Next Simple Self Defense for Women™ seminars are on Saturday 10/24 10:00AM in Daytona Beach Shores Community Center on A1A and Thursday 11/12 6:00PM at the Homewood Suites next to JC Penney at the Volusia Mall.

Make it a girls day out or if you could forward this out to any women who should know how to simply escape an attack, I have attached PDF’s with the information on the seminars. If you pre-register on line it is only $15.00 with tax, $20.00 at the door.

For more details on Simple Self Defense for Women or to register visit, www.simpleselfdefenseforwomen.com.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Aidan Charnack Wins Gold at Disney

Aidan Charnock won a gold medal at the Disney Martial Arts Festival on October 17th. The tournament drew over 3500 competitors from 12 separate disciplines and was held at Disney Wide World of Sports Complex. Aidan won the Olympic Style TaeKwonDo Tournament in the Red Belts 12 and 13 year old division. This was the 10th anniversary for the event.

MuSool TaeKwonDo Team Parents Assocation to host a Scare Zone to Raise Money for Team

The MuSool TaeKwonDo Team’s Parents Association will be hosting a Scare Zone to raise Money for the 2010 TaeKwonDo Competition Team. The Association will be selling pizza and taking donations at the event. The Scare Zone will be located at 1343 East Dexter Drive (Willow Run) in Port Orange on Halloween from 6pm to 10pm.

In the past two years the MuSool TaeKwonDo team has put several members have placed on the National and international levels as well making the US National Team.

Members of the 2010 MuSool TaeKwonDo Team will be competing at the US Open in Las Vegas, NV, US National’s and at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for several events. Please come support the MuSool TaeKwonDo Team on Halloween and have a great scare as well.

Historic Fifth World Title for Steven Lopez

Bill Kellick - USA Taekwondo

Steven Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) became the first fighter to win five world championship titles on Wednesday when he captured the men's welterweight gold medal at the WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lopez, 30, won his first world championship gold medal in 2001 and has been undefeated at the biennial event ever since, winning titles in 2003, 2005 and 2007. He has also won two Olympic gold medals (2000 & 2004) and one Olympic bronze medal (2008) in the last decade, but the world championships are often regarded as being the tougher event due to the depth of the field. It would take six straight match wins on Wednesday to claim this year's title.

Lopez began the historic day with a win by withdrawal over Israel's Roman Rusinov and then defeated Poland's Piotr Pazinski, 5-1. He reached the quarterfinals with a 4-2 win over Serbia's Radomir Samadzic.

The quarterfinal match with Iran's Farzad Abdolahi turned out to be a rough and tumble affair with Abdolahi being disqualified after incurring eight penalties including a punch that knocked out Lopez's tooth.

But Lopez was now only two wins away from history and faced a familiar foe in the semifinals in Canada's Sebastien Michaud. The two fighters met in the semifinals of the last world championships in 2007 with Lopez prevailing, 1-(-2). The outcome this time would be no different as Lopez won by a 4-1 tally to reach the gold-medal bout against Spain's Nicolas Garcia Hemme.

Lopez's quest for history would go right down to the wire in the final with Garcia Hemme. Tied at the end of regulation, the match went to an overtime period in which neither fighter was able to score. The decision would now go to the judges based on who was the more aggressive fighter during the overtime period, and they determined Lopez as the superior fighter, thereby awarding him the victory and his place in history.

The other two U.S. fighters in action Wednesday both reached the round of 16

Men's heavyweight Jason Neville (Edmond, Okla.) won his first match by withdrawal over Kenya's John Ireri and then defeated Cameroon's Pierre Nyok Nyok, 4-0. But Neville dropped a 3-2 decision to Iran's Hossein Tajik in the round of 16.

Women's welterweight Nia Abdallah (Houston, Texas) defeated Jordan's Shaden Thweib, 2-0, and then won by withdrawal over Tunisia's Khaoula Ben Hamza. She lost her round of 16 match to Norway's Nikolina Kursar 4-2.

The WTF World Taekwondo Championships continue through Sunday. The daily schedule for U.S. fighters is below:

Thursday, October 15
Men's under 58 kg - James Howe (San Ramon, Calif.)
Women's under 49 kg - Victoria Stambaugh (Pasadena, Texas)
Women's under 57 kg - Danielle Holmquist (Coral Springs, Fla.)

Friday, October 16
Men's under 63 kg - Brian Gallagher (Highlands Ranch, Colo.)
Women's under 53 kg - Danielle Pelham (Bothell, Wash.)
Men's under 68 kg - Steven Lin (Chatham, N.J.)

Saturday, October 17
Men's under 54 kg - Luis Reyes (Chatsworth, Calif.)
Men's under 87 kg - Antony Graf (Miami, Fla.)
Women's under 46 kg - Talina Le (Woodinville, Wash.)
Women's under 73 kg - Dalia Avivi (Plantation, Fla.)

Sunday, October 18
Men's under 74 kg - Mark Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas)
Women's under 62 kg - Stephanie Beckel (Miami, Fla.)
Women's over 73 kg - Lauren Cahoon (Miami, Fla.)

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MuSool Academy Holds Color Belt Testing.

MuSool Academy held a color belt testing and MATTs check on Saturday October 10th at the Port Orange School.

Nicholas Lunt, Devin Weller, Jordan Lunt, David Scales and Hanna Ward all were promoted to yellow belt. William Smith received his high red belt as well.
Bo and Josh Godawa both passed their MuSool Black Belt Check and were given permission to go through the MuSool Black Belt Selection on December 5th.

Due to illness, several students were given permission to test later this week. MuSool Online will keep you posted.

MuSool After School Visits Old Sugar Mill

The MuSool After School program went to the old Sugar Mill Gardens on Wednesday, October 7th as part of the programs continuing education. The kids got to walk the Garden and play with the dinosaur’s that are in the park. They also learned about the Dunlawton Plantation and the Indian’s that use to attack it in the early 1800’s.