My name is Youngmin Kim Head Coach of Taekwondo All In In 33 Chestnut st Ridgewood. I have run this program in 3years to find out athletes and introduce sport taekwondo. About our programs, we have two different programs which are recreational taekwondo and sports taekwondo. Our recreational taekwondo provides with learning respects, discipline, focus, and team work through training. As many people thought Taekwondo is only one of martial arts, but also taekwondo is one of core Olympic sports. I was one of sport taekwondo athletes in Korea. Our sports taekwondo programs provide detailed skills and dreams of becoming an USA Olympian.
About Team Success at championships.
Our team has participated from local championships to international championships. We have gradually dominated in local and National championships within 3years. Our athletes achieved more than 60 medals from National and International championships within 2 years. At the first our national championships was last year July 4 in CA San Jose. 6 athletes participated in the championships, earning 7 medals. In this year, 15 athletes more than double from last year participated in National Championships earning 26 medals. In this year National Championships, every athlete made at least one medal. In order to make this happen, athletes dedicated their time and efforts from State championships to National championships. They trained more than 10 hour in a week. That was why our athletes deserved their results in National championships medals.
About what it means to win an award at National Championships.
Path to Olympic.
National championships is to path for Olympic. In order for athletes to participate in national championships, they need to qualify from State championships. Once they qualified state championships, athletes can go to National championships. It is very hard to prepare for National Championships because National Championships is only once a year; therefore, so many athletes have intensive training to participate in this big event. All most over 6000 athletes participate in a year. Only 30% of athletes can receive a medal. Athletes who participate in World class level can allow to participate in Team Trial once they have a medal in National Championships.
