Sabumnim Michael Nguyen and Sabumnim Tony Nguyen took a team of seven Impact Taekwon-Do students to compete at the General Choi Cup held by Il-Shim Taekwon-Do. They hired and drove a rental van from Melbourne to Sydney overnight. The team performed extremely well despite only arriving the morning of the competition with little sleep.
Results from the competition:
Michael Nguyen
2nd – Senior male black belt patterns
2nd – Senior male heavyweight sparring
3rd – Senior males special techniques
Tony Nguyen
1st – Senior male black belt patterns
Matthew Nguyen
Semifinalist senior middleweight sparring and senior black belt patterns
Jennifer Nguyen
1st – Junior female black belt patterns
Larita Bouphasavanh
Quarterfinalist senior coloured belt patterns
Tim Hon
3rd – Senior male Gup patterns
2nd – Senior male coloured belt sparring
Leon Sejranovic
1st – Junior male coloured belt sparring
2nd – Junior male special techniques