Tae Kwon Do Convention

Last weekend, the boys got to go to the Moo Sul Kwan convention that was held in Cape...it was 3 days of working with Black Belts from around the state and from Colorado on different techniques, self defense, and other styles of the martial arts. This year, Grand Master Shin was able to be with us...he is apparently the highest ranking Judo belt in the country, so we were all pretty excited to see him! They started by dividing them all into groups by age and belt rank and then sending them to different classes to work on things. Here is Clayton working on an attack with a Black Belt from Colorado.

Here is Brent working with a Black Belt on defensive kicks, if you were stuck on the ground.

And more defensive kicks:

Here they were learning Judo and how to flip someone over your hip. Brent and his partner were having troubles, so a Black Belt came over and flipped Brent! LOL

Later in the day, Grand Master Shin was signing the kids' belts...we thought he was autographing them. But then we found out he was putting the kids' names on their belts in Korean!! SWEET!! So the boys, of course, wanted to be included in that! SO COOL!


At the end of Saturday, there was a banquet for any of the attendees who wanted to go. They handed out awards for schools and for upper ranking Black Belts, but they also honored Grand Master Shin and he spoke for a few minutes.

The boys had SOOO much fun and are still practicing (on each other!) the different moves they learned and perfecting what they can. They have both said they want to go next year as well.