2010 World Championships

 

 

In only four more months the WTSDA World Championships will take place in North Carolina.  I am proud to say that we have several students that have the ability to win World Cups.  I believe we have serious contenders in the Youth Male and Female Black Belt Divisions, the Adult Male and Female Black Belt Divisions, as well as the Senior Black Belt Male and Female Divisions.  We have Gup students that certainly have the potential to win a Cup.  I have no doubt that we have the nucleus of a Demo Team that can win the Creativity division at the World’s, for the first time!.

 

I even know the secret for accomplishing this, as many of YOU do.  The secret is……..there are no secrets, there is just hard work!  I have been teaching Tang Soo Do longer than most of our students have been alive.  Of the 12 Men’s World Black Belt Champions since 1986, I have trained or trained with the men who hold 6 of those Cups.  None of them won because of natural talent.  Everyone of them trained hard in preparation for their victories.  I watched Brian Fisher practice “Choon Bee” hour after hour,  because he said it would be the first thing the judges observed him doing.  I watched Rob Massaroni spend hours every day dissecting every move in his forms in preparation for his Cup.

 

Recently I watched men being inducted into the National Football League’s Hall of Fame.  I found it interesting that all of them felt they achieved the great honor because early in their life someone they respected taught them anyone can dream of being a champion, however dreaming will not get you there.  They all were taught it takes hard work.

 

In four months we go to the World Championships.  Many of you dream of winning a World Cup.  Many of you will find excuses that prevented it. Hopefully more than one of you will have had the dedication, the desire and the discipline, as well as all of the stars in the skies all properly aligned, to come back with the Cup!

 

To win a World Cup, to be the best Demo Team at the World’s, it takes more than a dream.  It takes hard work!  The time is now!

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