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| Summary Tang Soo Do World Cup |
| Author: Marcin Kostyra @ 2009-10-28, 11:55 |
Dear Tang Soo Do Friends!
On October weekend (17th-18th)in Puławy, Poland, was held Cheezic Tang Soo Do World Championship and Tang Soo Do World Cup, hosted by Polish Tang Soo Do Federation,a representative of Cheezic Tang Soo Do Federation.
In the tournament competed about 200 competitors from three continents - they compete in 7 individual categories (traditional forms, modern forms, long stick forms, weapon forms, special techniques, breaking and sparring), 3 team categories (synchronized forms, double match sparring, team sparring) and in 2 Haedong Kumdo categories (Forms and Paper Cutting).
We guested a lot of Tang Soo Do Masters - in it 4 Grandmasters known all around the world:
GRANDMASTER ROBERT CHEEZIC 10 dan from United States,
GRANDMASTER DOMINICK GIACOBBE 8 dan from United States,
GRANDMASTER EDWARD JACOBSEN 8 dan from South Africa,
GRANDMASTER MARK ADLINGTON 8 dan from England.
Championship in forms divisions was judged by highest Black Belt ranks, very rare in history it is possible to complete such an excellent referees on a one ring as placed this time: GM Robert Cheezic 10 dan United States, GM Edward Jacobsen 8 dan South Africa, GM Dominick Giacobbe 8 dan United States, GM Mark Adlington 8 dan England and Master Christoforos Christodoulou 5 dan Greece - judged black belts forms. Commission of that known Masters had never has been on any Tang Soo Do tournament and medalist should be very proud of themselves.
On Sunday ceremonial decoration was done by great and very important Tang Soo Do persons - GM Robert Cheezic, GM Dominick Giacobbe, GM Edward Jacobsen, Master Christoforos Christodoulou, Master Konstantinos Chamilothoris, Master Gregory Hart, Master Adam Gorski, Anna Tarka
from City Hall of Puławy and Antoni Rękas the Director of the Civic Sport Centre - Antoni Rękas.
We want to say thank you to all the teams for their presence and support of the idea of over-federational Championship and World Cup, and to all
who helped in organizing it. We hope that in the future all of us, will meet on 2nd Tang Soo Do World Cup. We want to hand over idea of continuation of World Cup to other countries, at this moment, however, we already know that in Poland will be held next edition of this unique event, in two or three years.
It is important to add that on Friday before Championship Grandmaster Giacobbe conducted the seminar on Tang Soo Do forms – the topic of it was a very rare and old version of Bassai Sho Hyung, then Master Chamilothoris from Greece conducted the seminar of self defense using short sticks.
At the end of Championship, on Sunday's night was held banquet for Master and participants and organizers of tournament - I think that is
very good for integration of Tang Soo Do community which can party together although organization splits.
Director and originator of World Championship - Marcin Kostyra
Honour Referee of World Championship - Grandmaster Robert Cheezic
Main Referee of World Championship - Piotr Bernat
General Secretary of World Championship - Marek Czapka
Technical Director of World Championship - Krzysztof Chudzik
It was the help and cooperation of Puławy Town Hall the President of Puławy Janusz Grobel, the Vice-president of Ewa Wójcik and the Director
of the Civic Sport Centre in Puławy - Antoni Rekas, that enabled our club to held the Championship here in Puławy.
We hope that you enjoyed your stay in Poland and that you will want to visit us also in future. I'm hoping that what you had an occasion to see on the tournament will inspire you to start practicing also new things that you didn't know before (like high kick, synchronized forms or double match fights).
Teams which participated the event:
United States of America - Grandmaster Robert Cheezic 10 dan & Grandmaster
Dominick Giacobbe 8 dan, Master Adam Górski 4 dan,
Republic of South Africa - Grandmaster Edward Jacobsen 8 dan, Master
Melanie Jacobsen 5 dan, Master Godfrey Jacobsen 5 dan, Master Gregory Hart
5 dan, Master Xander Davis 4 dan
Greece - Master Konstantinos Chamilothoris 5 dan, Master Christoforos
Christodoulou 5 dan, Master Ntinos Strouvalis 5 dan
England - Grandmaster Mark Adlington 8 dan, Master Paul Giffen 4 dan
Ireland - Bu Sa Bum Nim Pat Forde 3 dan
Scotland - Kyo Sa Nim Louise Baker 2 dan
Poland - Bu Sa Bum Nim Marcin Kostyra 3 dan
Statistics:
Best height in Special Techniques - Male (+180cm division) - Maciej Kulig
(Poland) height 255 cm
Best height in Special Techniques - Female (+160cm division) - Alinda Van
Der Merwe (South Africa) height 224cm
In divisions competed:
Traditional Forms - 108 contestants (81 males, 27 females)
Modern Forms - 73 contestants (53 males, 20 females)
Weapon Forms - 58 contestants (42 males, 16 females)
Long Stick Forms - 81 contestants (59 males, 22 females)
Special Techniques - 99 contestants (74 males, 25 females)
Breaking - 89 contestants (73 males, 16 females)
Individual Sparring - 167 contestants (129 males, 38 females)
Haedong Kumdo Kumbup - 24 contestants (17 males, 7 females)
Haedong Kumdo Paper Cutting - 21 contestants (14 males, 7 females)
Team Sparring - 11 teams
Doublematch Sparring - 44 teams
Synchronized Forms - 20 teams
All Championship: 177 contestants (134 males, 43 females)
Total number of divisions - 110
Results and teams classification in http://worldcup-tsd.org/d...dcup_poland.pdf
I invite you to write reflections after Championship on boards:
in Polish www.tangsoodo.pl/forum
and in English language: http://www.worldcup-tsd.org/index.php
Please send this mail to all competitors and participants of World Championship.
Tang Soo!
With Best Regards
Marcin Kostyra
www.worldcup-tsd.org
www.tangsoodo.pl
Polish Tang Soo Do Federation
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