Congratulations MTC National Team / Preparations for 2010 Nationals begin at Ice Cream Social

This year a very small team made up of just 3 athletes traveled to Austin Texas for the 2009 USA Taekwondo Junior Olympics and Senior Nationals. Dylan Ardiana, Abbey Ardiana and Austin James all came home with Gold Medals.

Austin and Dylan both fought in the "Grassroots" Elite Open Division which you do not need to qualify to compete in, and they both won their respective sparring divisions. While Abbey qualified for both the 14-17 year old and 18-32 year old divisions. After losing her first fight in the Junior Division, she went on to win 4 fights to become the National Champion in the Women's Feather Weight Division. Becoming a National Champion from Montana has not been achieved by any Montanan in 12 years.

We congratulate you, Abbey, and are excited to see where your path will now take you. You are poised to accomplish all you set out to do, and we offer you our unwavering support.

We encourage all students and parents with any interest in Taekwondo Competition to join us at the Ice Cream Social August 5th at 6PM to begin planning for next year. This level of competition is a true enhancement to any Martial Arts Path.

from the desk of Mrs. Rosbarsky

Big Sky State Games Results

Big Sky State Games Results on July 18th:

Austin Graef Gold in Poomse and Gold in sparring
Rachel Schmidt Gold in Poomse and Gold in sparring
Austin James Gold in sparring
Kyle bronze in Poomse and silver in sparring
Ryan Cagle Gold in sparring
Mr Parks Gold in Poomse and Bronze in sparring
Mrs Hammond silver Poomse

At the Big Sky State Games Judo was held in the same gym and two of our athletes competed for the first time in Judo....

Ryan Cagle 4th Judo.

CA Tournaments

Austin won his match today by a 7 point gap. He took 3rd overall losing to Korea in the 1st Pan-Am University Taekwondo Championships.


"Amanda behind Bars"

Do we need to send bail money?

"the result of not working out...or a nude beach in San Francisco"

News from Las Vegas - US Open

Abbey lost her first yesterday 4-1.

Chance has won his first 2 fights. His first was against China in overtime and then his second against Australia 7-0.

Big Sky tournament

There were 30 students participating in the Big Sky Martial Arts Champion-ships on November 15th in Kalispell, MT.

Here are some of the results from the tournament. Feel free to email ones that have been missed or in error.

Abbey-1st Poomse, 1st Sparring.

AJ-4th poomse, 2nd Sparring

Amanda-3rd Poomse, 2nd Doubles Poomse

Bailey-1st Poomse, 3rd Sparring

Bonnie-5th Poomse, 3rd Dbls, 1st Sparring

Brannon-3rd poomse

Briar-4th Poomse, 2nd Sparring

Claire-1st Doubles Poomse, 3rd Poomse

Damian-2nd Poomse, 3rd Sparring

DJ- 4th Poomse

Dylan A-3rd Poomse,1st Sparring

Dylan S-2nd Poomse, 4th Sparring

Ericka-4th Poomse, 3rd Sparring

Mr. Parks-2nd Poomse, 1st Sparring

HD-3rd poomse, 3rd Sparring

Mr. Bartholomew-4th Poomse, 2nd Doubles Poomse

Jeff-4th poomse

Kallie-1st Poomse, 3rd Doubles Poomse

Kara S-2nd Poomse, 3rd Sparring

Kim-2nd Poomse, 1st Doubles Poomse, 3rd Sparring

Kira-1st Poomse, 1st Sparring

Lydia-1st Poomse,1st Sparring

Mic-4th Poomse, 4th Sparring

Rachel-1st Poomse, 1st Doubles Poomse, 1st Sparring

Ruth-2nd Poomse,1st Doubles Poomse

Ryan W.-1st Poomse, 1st sparring

Sable-1st Poomse,2nd sparring

Taiga-2nd Poomse, 2nd Sparring

Tamara-1st Poomse, 1st Sparring

Wren-2nd Poomse, 4th Sparring

Congrats to all our teammates!!

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Taekwondo in the Olympics

For the third time Taekwondo Sparring was a full medal Olympic Sport. The United Sates took a 4 person team to August's Bejiing Olympics. Three of the team members were Siblings Mark, Diana and Steven Lopez.

And the fourth was 17 year old Charlotte Craig. The Lopez siblings competing marked the first time in 104 years that 3 siblings competed at the same Olympics in the same sport.

Although our team was small, they fought hard and came home with 3 medals for their efforts. Charlotte lost by 1 point in the quarterfinals, Steven and Diana came home with Bronze and Mark walked away with the silver. Previously Steven took gold in the 2000 and 2004 Games and was favored to win the highly cometitive Male Welter weight division this time, however, coming home with the bronze did not cause him to act slighted or betray the attitude of a true martial artist.

Lopez said, "I came here expecting to win a gold medal, but I guess it wasn't in the cards today. It's hard but I'm hapy with the bronze. I have two ways to look at it, either succub to it and think 'I should have been in the finals', but a champion goes out there with dignity and I wanted to prove to myself and others that I am the best. " About the future he said, "It encourages me to keep going. I am upset. I love winning. I hate losing, and in to way does this discourage me from wanting to go to the 2012 Olympic Games."

It was widely publicized that a fighter from Cuba kicked the referee in the face after being disqualified. We are saddened by this publicity overshadowing the great accomplishments of our hard working Martial Artists, but hope that this opens up discussion amongst our MTC family of what a true martial artist is and how they should handle difficult..even antering situations. Let's be the next true example to the world of what TKD is really about.

From the Desk of Mrs. Rosbarsky

State Tournament - Bozeman

Poomse: 1st: Ruth, Rachel, Ryan C., Hunter, Ryan Watson

Poomse 2nd: Dylan, Brannon, Bonnie

Poomse 3rd: Ericka

Poomse 4th: Abbey, Tavin, Kallie, Evan

Doubles Poomse: Ruth and Rachel 1st

Creative Poomse: Ruth 2nd

Sparring 1st: Dylan, Abbey (and 1st in her second division)

Sparring 2nd: Tavin, Rachel

Sparring 3rd: Evan, Steart, Ryan C., Hunter, Ericka, Kallie, Bonnie

Sparring 4th: Brannon

Slideshow

Abbey got to Center Ref for the First time!!

MissoulaTKD got 3rd place overall.