Newsletter Publisher - J. Slinn Volume No.5 Issue No. 102 Date: May 2015 V5.102 1 May 2015 10 th Anniversary Yes, May 10 th was the 10 th Anniversary of the West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy! It’s been a good ten years professionally and personally. I’ve been blessed with two beautiful daughters and our family moved to a new house in Central New Jersey. I won five Kickboxing Titles – 4 World Titles and 1 New Jersey Title; won 5 th place in my first Body Building competition at the Mr Olympia Competition in Las Vegas; and even started competing again in TaeKwonDo Tournaments – I won 1 st place in Board Breaking at Grand Master Giacobbe’s International Karate Championships in Atlantic City last July. I’m hoping to repeat this summer! The Academy has also gone through quite a few changes – both in the number of students enrolled and the physical layout of the facility. We’ve added a MAX Fitness program, Adult Self Defense Classes, and a Leadership Class where we are training students to be instructors. I am excited about the future – the next ten years – and the changes and challenges that we will face together. Master Steven Master Steven Master Steven Master Steven Leadership Class Successfully completing the Leadership Class in early May were Akitha De Silva, Ronit Deshpande, Pranav Doshi, Amey Kapadia and Michael Ravikovitch. You will see these young men helping Master Steven and Miss Amber teach in your classes. You can identify them as Assistant Instructors by the Red, White and Blue ribbons they wear on their uniform collars. Pictured below are Akitha De Silva, Michael Ravikovitch and Pranav Doshi. Congratulations!!! New Students In April, the West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy welcomed back Harshil Bhullar, one of our long- time black belts who had taken a few months off. We’re very happy to see him in class again. Black Belt Club The Black Belt Club will continue studying Self Defense in May and also do some work on Tournament Preparation. In April, Vikram Karamsetty and Nadeesh Sharma joined the Black Belt Club. May Birthdays Dhruv Soni - 1 st Yash Agarwal - 1 st Adi Tomar - 1 st Raghu Nema - 3 rd Tejaswi Penmatsa - 3 rd Sanjana Ramalingam - 8 th Yousaf Ahmed - 10 th Krish Usgoankar - 11 th Eshan Kulkarni - 13 th Steven Chen - 15 th Liam Connaughton - 16 th Lisandi De Silva - 16 th Dhruv Sharma - 16 th Prabhav Vuttaluru - 18 th Abhinav Uthaman - 18 th Aryan Agarwal - 21 st Jahan Kulkarni - 21 st Pranav Anand - 24 th Shaurya Shah - 25 th Leland Quaynor - 26 th Lionel Quaynor - 26 th Sofia Aguayo - 27 th Upcoming Events May 1 st & 2 nd – Special Black Belt Testing – NO REGULAR CLASSES May 4 th – Buddha Purnima – celebrates the birth anniversary of Gautama Buddha, a spiritual teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. May 8 th & 9 th – Battle of Champions at West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy – NO REGULAR CLASSES May 13 th thru 16 th – Belt Testing – NO REGULAR CLASSES May 25 th – Memorial Day Holiday – West Windsor TaeKwonDo & Kickboxing Academy CLOSED May 30 th & 31 st – New Jersey Martial Arts Alliance Invitational Championship – Hillsborough High School, Hillsborough, NJ Like Us on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/WWTKD Visit us at: www.WWTaeKwonDo.com To see pictures from tournaments and testing, go to www.WWTKD.Shutterfly.com