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Morning Fitness Classes
May 22nd, 2007Starting June 4, 2007 and continuing every Monday, Wednesday and Friday we will be having Fitness Classes at 6:00 am. This is a great way to start your mornings!
Questions: Call Diana at 386-3696
2007 Nationals/World Qualifier Results
May 2nd, 2007 
The Junior/Senior World Qualifiers, hosted by Master Gordon Jue on April 28 and 29, 2007 has provided the United States with their 2007 World Team. Approximately 62 competitors from around the United States, made up of Junior and Seniors will be headed to England to compete in the World Competition in early August of this year.
Washington State, under the guide of Mr. Mason McCauley 3rd Dan, brought back 9 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals and 4 Bronze Medals. Mr. McCauley took the Gold in both Patterns and Sparring and Silver in Men’s Team events, and will be headed to his 3rd World Competition as a competitor. Mr. McCauley hopes to again return with some World Champion hardware.
Other students who qualified for World’s are Ms. Caitlin Charnley-Ovens, 1st Dan who took the Gold in Sparring and Silver in Patterns. Mr. Riley Todd, 2nd Dan took Gold in Sparring and Gold in Specialty Breaking. Both have qualified for the US Team.
In non-qualifying events, Mr. Chad Eggers 6th Gup took Gold in Sparring and Gold in Patterns. Ms. Emma Stephens 7th Gup took Gold in Sparring and Gold in Patterns. Mr. Scott Dixon took Bronze in Sparring, Patterns and Breaking.
We are proud of our students and the wonderful job they did representing McCauley Taekwon-Do and Washington State.
We wish them luck in their future endeavors and look forward to watching and hearing how they do in England. Good luck Team USA !!
Canada Training
April 10th, 2007
As promised, we headed up to Vancouver, BC Canada to train with Mr. Johnny Ahmed 4th Dan, March 22 - 25, 2007. Mr. Mason McCauley, III Dan, Mrs. Diana McCauley II Dan and a student Mr. Chad Eggers 7th Gup were in attendance.
We were met with nothing but rain and traffic, and were beginning to wonder if we would ever make it to the hotel. We did finally make it safe and sound where we grabbed a bite to eat and called it a day.
On Friday, we headed over to Mr. Ahmed’s school where he graciously hosted a workout for us. He led us through patterns, drills and sparring.
After the workout we all met for dinner and great conversation and then headed back to our hotel for a well earned nights sleep.
Saturday we met again for another workout. Mr. Ahmed did not disappoint us as we went through lots of conditioning drills and again had the opportunity to spar. We appreciate the opportunity to train with other black belts and learn new drills and techniques.
Saturday night Mr. Ahmed, along with his friend Whitney took us downtown Vancouver to this amazing Greek Taverna named Stepho’s Souvlaki where we met up with our new friend and fellow black belt Mr. Vadim Oskolkov, II Dan. We even had our own official "Borat" waiter. The food was amazing and we all had a great time.
The weekend and training both went by way too fast and we have already scheduled another trip to Vancouver to train with Mr. Ahmed and his students. We are so fortunate to have so many wonderful friends within the realm of ITF Taekwon-Do.
Mr. Chad Morishita Visits Walla Walla
April 10th, 2007 
Mr. Chad Morishita 4th Dan and his student Ms. Tona Foster, 5th Gup, from Salt Lake City, Utah visited McCauley Taekwon-Do and Fitness the weekend of March 15 - 18, 2007.
It was great to have them at our school and training with us. We were able to help each other brush up on our competition skills in prepartion for the upcoming Nationals/World Qualifiers to be held in Pleasanton, CA, April 27 - 28, 2007.
Mr. Morishita will be competing in the World Qualifiers and Ms. Foster will be competing in her first Nationals.
We spent several hours over three days working on sparring, patterns and drills, and in the non-training hours we had the opportunity for some great food and even better conversations.
Although many of our students were unable to train with Mr. Morishita, those that did appreciated the time that these martial artists took out of their busy schedules to come to Walla Walla and train with us. We always learn new things and incorporate those new techinques and values into our own school.
Mr. Morishita shared with us his experience of teaching a "Night Of a Thousand Kicks". I think the name says it all. I’m not sure how our students enjoyed the fact that Mr. McCauley shared this experience with all of us. Mr. McCauley thought it was a "Night Of a Thousand Kicks, Per Leg". Needless to say, there were many sore bodies after that class!
We are anxious to see Mr. Moishita and Ms. Foster at Nationals/World Qualifiers and wish them well in their respective divisions.