Washington State Governor's Cup 2012

Congratulations to all our competitors that attended this years Washington State Governor's Cup! The Governor's Cup is a taekwondo tournament that has been a tradition in the N.W. since 1988, up holding the  values and traditions of taekwondo and martial arts. Thank you to Grand Master Lee from U.S. Martial Arts Center Taekwondo for inviting  us and putting on such a great tournament!

Collin, Shaun, Evan and Zaina all did a great job and brought home lots of medals!

Miss Shannon  won Gold in individual poomse and won Silver with Ms. Sarah from Tualatin. http://youtu.be/NPrnW6PWX2E

Collin's Gold medal poomse performance! 

Miss Zaina showing off her Bronze medal!

The gang with their friend from Happy Valley! 

Miss Zaina breaking boards!

Shaun's Gold medal board breaking routine! 

Shaun won gold in sparring!

The boys practicing their team poomse!

If you have pictures or videos of this tournament email them to me and I'll get them added.

St. Francis School

U.S. WEST COAST TAEKWONDO

& St. FRANCIS SCHOOL

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM  2012

Fundraiser for St. Francis

All proceeds will be donated to St. Francis School. Classes will be held at U.S. West Coast Taekwondo Sherwood on Thursdays. No transportation will be provided.

$30 includes:
5 Classes
T-shirt
Basic taekwondo instruction
At Graduation receive a certificate
and Uniform!

2:45pm-3:30pm Thursdays
Week 1 October 25^th
Week 2 November 1st
Week 3 November 8^th
Week 4 November 15th
Week 5 November 29^th
Graduation  November 30^th @ 6:00pm

Space is limited! 

Sign up early!

To sign up contact USWC @

uswcsherwood@hotmail.com

503.625.4447 

2012 U.S West Coast Taekwondo Festival!

Congratulations, to all our competitors at Saturday's Taekwondo festival at Warner Pacific Collage! They all did great! Thank you to Ms. Miriam from Rock Creek and Ms. Shazia for the pictures! Martial arts provides great opportunities for our kids to grow and shine. Nick, Evan, Collin, Shaun and Zaina showed us what they were made of when they competed in Saturday's tournament and brought home all those medals! Especially Collin who was sick and had a fever and yet still competed in 4 events including sparring.

Nick got Silver in sparring!

Great job Nick!

Collin's Silver medal performance! 

Collin was sick with a fever and still went out and did great! 

Evan gets Gold in Poomse!

Shaun swept with 4 Gold medals! Great job Shaun!

Zaina got 2 Silver medals!

There are two Taekwondo tournaments in October. The 2012 Washington State Governor's Cup is Saturday October 20th. Register @ http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e605fyyfd3e93ed4&llr=k9nwe6jab.

The 9th International Open Friendship Taekwondo Championships & Cultural Festival is October 27th at the Oregon Convention Center. Register @ http://www.ioftc.com/.

Thank you to Miss Shannon for all her help at the tournament!

  

Sherwood's own Superstar!!

Shaun Jones being interviewed by KPTV News.

When KPTV news was looking for a star to interview for their story on the upcoming Pan Am Jr. Open this weekend, they didn't have to look any farther than our own Shaun Jones. A veteran competitor at international events, Shaun was the perfect choice for their piece.

Shaun shared the wisdom of a six year old, soon to be Master, in his insightful and concise answers. He soon had the hardened and cynical reporter eating out of his hands.

Click on the link to see the entire interview:
http://www.kptv.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7335916

Master Shin asked for Shaun for this interview.

Make sure to root Shaun on when he competes this weekend at the PATU Pan Am Jr. Open. He will be looking to increase his international medal count as he competes in sparring, board breaking and poomsae. Shaun will be joined by Collin Householder and Evan Petticord in looking to make us all proud, and shake up the World, when they bring home the bling!

Summer Camp 2012

U.S. WEST COAST TAEKWONDO

SHERWOOD

SUMMER CAMP 2012

·         Taekwondo classes

·         Ninja training

·         Fun games

·         Ice cream making

·         Water balloons

·         Arts & Crafts

·         Soccer

·         Capture the flag

·         Zombie tag

·         Dodge ball

US West Coast Taekwondo in Sherwood is offering summer camps for anyone who is interested in Taekwondo fun!

Each week will have it's own theme!  The themes are:

• Week 1: Board breaking
• Week 2: Hapkido
• Week 3: Weapons
• Week 4: Sparring

Class Times

4 one-week classes will be offered. 

• Monday through Thursday
• 9 am - 12 noon  

Week 1	July 9th through 12th	Week 3	August 6th through 9th
Week 2	July 23rd through 26th	Week 4	August 20th through 23rd

Class Schedule

•       9:00 a.m. drop off                                   
•       9:15 a.m. games
•      10:15 a.m. taekwondo classes                         
•      11:00 a.m. crafts
•      11:30 a.m. games
•      12:00 p.m. pick up

Payment Options

OPTION 1:  Per week for non-USWC students:                     $80.00

OPTION 2:  Per week for USWC students:                            $60.00

OPTION 3:  All four weeks for non-USWC students:            $295.00

OPTION 4:  All four weeks for USWC students:                   $215.00

All options come with a US West Coast Taekwondo – Sherwood t-shirt. 

Space is limited! Sign up early!

US West Coast-Sherwood

15966 SW Tualatin Sherwood Rd

Sherwood Or. 97140

uswcsherwood@hotmail.com

www.tkdsherwood.com
503.625.4447

2012 US National Open Taekwondo Championship

Collin and his 4 Gold Medals!

Congratulations to all our students who competed at the 2012 US National Open last weekend! Sherwood had 24 students participating and they brought home 18 Gold Medals, 13 Silver Medals and 11 Bronze Medals. I was very proud of everyone's performances. Some were competing in their first tournament like Miss Moira, Mr. Ty and Mr. Kaden, others were old hands at competing like Mr. Collin and Mr. Shaun! Collin was the star of the day with a sweep or 4 Gold Medals in 4 events, with Shaun right behind with 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze!   

The format for this years tournament was changed from previous years. This year it was organized by age groups which facilitated  a much smoother event. Competitors were able to arrive just before their events, compete and then leave when they were done. At past tournaments if you were competing in forms and sparring you needed to be there from the beginning of the tournament to the end. This change was met with rave   reviews by competitors, parents and staff alike!  

Shaun is happy about his 5 Medals!

I want to thank Miss Shannon McCosh for all her help during the tournament this year! She was invaluable as she ran from one ring to another making sure our students had a coach at each event. I saw a video of Collin sparring and you could see Miss Shannon running in the back ground to help Miss Audrey for her sparring match! Miss Shannon has been a great addition to our TKD Family! She made my job much easier compared to previous tournaments. 

There were many competitors from Sherwood who really stepped up their game for this tournament. I wanted to point out a couple of them: I was very proud of Nathan Henninger for his first time sparring at a tournament. Nathan has been doing TKD for a while now, but just started sparring recently, so he had to compete against more experienced fighters. He was aggressive and kept the pressure on his opponent winning his first match and winning a Silver Medal! Also Nick Gette came back from a rough experience at the Pan Am Open to win his first match and earning a Silver Medal! Jeri and Jonathan Corbett just 

Miss Shannon coaching Collin. 

learned their yellow belt form and performed it in the pairs competition to win Gold! Emme Weger also in her first tournament earned a Gold Medal with an epic leap in flying side kick!

Thank you to all of our students and their parents who participated at this years US National Open making it a very successful event! It gives me great pleasure to see my students succeed at their endeavors, to see them exceed even their own expectations, to see them achieve something they did not know they could do, to become something the did not know the could be, to reach a goal they did not know they could reach! It is the reason I am here!

Mr. S

Please scroll down for more pics!

January Testing and Movie Night!

USWC Sherwood had a very busy Saturday! We had testing in the early afternoon and Movie Night  in the evening. Everybody did a great job during testing for their next belt! It was a full house for Movie Night and everyone had a great time! Here are some pictures from Saturday. If you have pictures of your own send them to uswcsherwood@hotmail.com and I will add them.

Miss Christy has perfect form with her push kick!

Big keup from Owen!

Mad Dog flying thru the air!

Shaun and Miss Jen doing their cat stance!

Make sure to join us for the next Movie Night so you don't miss out on all the fun!!!

New Web Site!

US West Coast Sherwood has launched a new remodeled web site! Thanks to the hard work of Mr. Josh Hutcheson who was kind enough to design the new web site for us. The site has many new features including a printable schedule (PDF file), an active events list, as well as this blog. There are still some bugs that need to be ironed out, so bear with us till they all get fixed. The blog will give us a forum to post pictures and video's as well as let our TKD family know what's new and exciting at our dojang! Please send me your pictures and videos for us to post here in our blog and on the web site at uswcsherwood@hotmail.com.

Shaun, our future State Champion!