Fall 09 Announcements:

** 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