Fall 09 Announcements:

Friday

8:30-10:30pm: Informal practice in MA room. I unfortunately will not be there, but do attend. We want you guys to stretch, loosen up, work on paddle drills, movement, ROUNDHOUSES, poomsae, etc.

4-6pm: no class.

7:15pm: Meet in Dillon Gym for tournament set-up. Brown and West Point will help us set-up so this should not take too long. We will be definitely be done by 10pm.

7am: Meet in Dillon. Registration and weigh-ins are from 7:30-9am. You can find the tournament packet here for the tournament schedule. For those providing laptops, you must be at dillon on time so we can set them up (please and thank you)!

** The Korean American Student Association invites PTKD to demonstrate at their event PALS, Princeton's Adopted Little Siblings. This event is on Saturday, November 21 from 1:30-2:00 in Campus Club. If you can help out, please email me (cfu@). I will shape the demo according to who can come. This was a really fun event and we can get free Korean food at 1:00.

** Princeton Tournament: You MUST fill out this form as soon as you receive it so I know who plans on competing, volunteering, or both. See Tournaments page or the e-mail for details.

** We have an opportunity to work at the NCAA Field Hockey Championship to raise money for the taekwondo club. Also, if you asked for financial assistance in paying dues, this is an opportunity to pay off anything you owe. Please read the forwarded email below. I believe you have to work the full shift, but I will double check with Mr. Kanaby. If you can help out, please email me ASAP and tell me what times you can work. Hopefully we can break the shifts down so no one has to work the entire afternoon. --Carissa

** Check out the new Tournaments page! You may have to Refresh.

** Club Fees were due Sunday, 10/11 to Skim:
Returning student semester fee is $100 payable to "Princeton Taekwondo." New student semester fee is $80 payable to "Princeton Taekwondo," and uniform fee is $65 preferably in cash or payable to "Ji Ho Choi." Instructions are also on Fall Fact Sheet. Please give all money/checks to Steven Kim. If you are unable to pay dues, please talk to Marc Osherson or Carissa Fu and we will work something out (see below paragraph)!

** Registration:
A copy of the Fall Fact Sheet is here. All returning AND new students, please fill out the bottom half and give it to Andrew Mandelbaum ASAP.

** Fundraising:
We will be working football games to help subsidize costs. If you are unable to pay dues, please e-mail tkd@princeton.edu ASAP that you will be working these events instead of paying dues up front. We will split earnings with you, so both the team and you personally make money.

** Tournament dates: MIT - Oct. 18; Cornell - Nov. 7; Garden state cup - Nov. 8; Princeton - Nov. 22

       Fall 09 in Pictures:

There are many head shots at sparring practices.

Left is photographer's (our multi-talented Secretary Andrew) choice and right is mine (clinch!) from Friday, Sept. 25, the first sparring class of the year.

Also see The Team section for more sparring pictures.

We had a lot of beginners at our free classes on Monday, Sept. 21, and Wednesday, Sept. 23, who started the basics with Master Hatfield

People with a variety of levels of experience also joined us

We met a lot of you at the Activities Fair on Friday, Sept. 18, and look forward to training with you!

We had our first team run on Sunday, Sept. 13. Everyone was excited.

       Summer World University Games, Belgrade, Serbia, July 2009: link

Carissa Fu '11 competed at the Summer World University Games (SWUG) in Belgrade, Serbia, beginning on July 1 and 2, 2009, along with 495 other Taekwondo athletes from over 70 countries participating in both poomsae and sparring. Carissa led the US Team in the women's individual poomsae competition (pictured right). She did very well but narrowly missed making the semifinals round. Carissa hopes to keep training hard and to make the team again in 2011 when SWUG will be held in China.

Our Master Hatfield, President of the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association (NCTA), served on the tournament supervisory committee (pictured left).

News from 2008-2009 link