Welcome to the homepage of C.W.Taekwondo at Boston, our Boston Taekwondo Project. Located conveniently in Cambridge's Central Square, we are a non profit martial arts club committed to providing the best Taekwondo experience in the Boston area, Massachusetts. We practice WTF (Olympic-style) Taekwondo (Tae Kwon do) and are registered with the United States Taekwondo Union (USTU). Our instructors and members are active competitively at the local, national and international levels and have a wealth of experience in both the martial art and sport of Taekwondo. Click for our location or to request information. Whether you're looking for martial arts and self-defense, Cardio Kickboxing, competition training and sparring, or are just curious about who we are, we hope you enjoy your visit to our site.

miscellaneous clips of forms, breaking and sparring in the video section...

...and pictures from in-class tournaments and promotion tests in the galleries.

Brett Competes at International Taekwondo Festival

06.07.09::Congrats to Brett Schuschereba, tBos member and Youth Program instructor, who competed on a 4-person team to win 2nd place in the team event at the International Taekwondo Festival in the City of Industry, CA. His team made it out of the preliminaries and took second to the Korean team in a tightly contested final.

Summer World University Games

06.01.09::C.W. Taekwondo at Boston and its competition team t.Bos are proud to have a 5 competitors who qualified for the 2009 US National Collegiate Team. Find out more...

Pan Am Collegiate Tournament

05.29.09::Members of tBos competed at the Pan Am Collegiates at the end of May. The tournament was small with only a few countries in attendance, but the competition was spirited and very high caliber. Results: Jayson Grant - Gold, middle sparring; Alicia Zhou and Bobby Ren - Gold, pairs poomsae; Alicia Zhou, Stephanie Kroll and Carissa Fu - Silver, team poomsae; Emma Wu - Silver, light sparring.

Dojang Renovations

05.26.09::A long-planned renovation of the dojang reception and office areas was successfully implemented over Memorial Day weekend. Two new desks, a set of storage cubbies, and several wall-mounted cabinets were installed. Chris Tuozzolo and Bart Goldberg organized the project and the work crew, putting in long hours throughout the weekend. The team of volunteers who helped either one, two, or all three days included: Lisa, Jim, Jason B., Jason G., Mike H., Jean, James, Darci, Agnieszka, Paul, Lori, Dan, Kathy, Wes, Maureen, Alicia, and Bobby.

US Collegiate National Team Trials

05.25.09::Jayson Grant and Anastasia Kazimirova competed at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO on May 15th, where they were coached by Master Dan Chuang. Jayson won the men's middleweight spot on the US Collegiate National Sparring Team for the Summer World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia. Ana finished 4th in her very competitive division, women's lightweight.

Ana K. Tests for 3rd Dan

05.02.09::Congratulations to club instructor Anastasia Kazimirova, who tested for her 3rd Dan black belt at C.W. Taekwondo of Ithaca on Saturday, May 2nd. The test was presided over by Grandmaster Cho. Ana did a great job, demonstrating some really tough sparring and also a nice combination board break of high narabang and multple board step-in-back kick.

CWB at Earth Day

04.25.09::On Saturday, April 25th, a group of CW Taekwondoists took part in the Earth Day Cleanup of the Charles River. We were lucky enough to have the best weather conditions of the year thus far as we went about collecting trash and beautifying the banks of the Charles at our site in Cambridge. In attendance were Mel, Lisa, Paul, Jim, Wes, Tanya, Josh, Juan, Maureen, Samia, Mariann, Aisling, Brian Mc, Jason B, Hamilton and Darci.

Connecticut Classic Tournament

03.29.09::CWB members traveled to Tolland, CT on Sunday, March 29 to compete in the US Taekwondo Classic. This is one of the biggest regional spring tournaments in the New England area, directed by Master David Turgeon. With six rings running continuously, and some overlap in our participants' matches, it was an exciting experience!

In the color belt forms division, our club came out on top: Yoshiko Iwamoto - GOLD, women's white/yellow; Laura Dominguez - SILVER, women's white/yellow; Mohammad Janbozorgi - GOLD, men's green/blue; Agnieszka Rytych - GOLD, women's green/blue; Fang Hong Shi - SILVER, women's green/blue.

In color belt sparring, Mohammad took GOLD in men's green belt, fighting two matches and staying strong. Agnieszka took GOLD in women's blue belt, showing good use of basics and pacing. Maureen Shepherd and Fang both faced an 18-year-old red belt, and they did an excellent job against her, but did not advance. Yoshiko lost a very close and exciting match against a bigger blue belt. Maureen, Yoshiko, and Fang all took home BRONZE.

In the black belt division, club instructors Anastasia Kazimirova and Lisa DeSiro competed together in poomsae pairs and also individually, achieving good scores against top-level competitors. Ana also sparred in two challenging matches, fighting well against her opponents but ultimately not advancing; she was coached by CWB alum instructor Chinedum Osuji, who made a surprise appearance at the tournament. Elijah Grant, a member of CWB's extended tBos family, won both of his matches in the 14-17 year old black belt sparring division; he was coached by Fabio Takahashi.

Also in attendance were club instructor Matt Litman, who helped with coordination and transportation, as well as documenting the event; and Master Mike Harb, who was a tournament referee and provided support to the CWB group. Thanks to both, and special kudos to Ana for her leadership in organizing the trip.

National Collegiate Championships

03.24.09::The National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships were held the weekend of March 21st at Brown University. It was an exciting tournament with over 350 competitors from over 90 schools present. CWB head instructor Master Dan Chuang, who serves as Secretary General of the NCTA, was involved with the running of the tournament and he also brought his MIT Sport Taekwondo club to compete. Master Mike Harb brought his Tufts Taekwondo team, and over a dozen members of the "t.Bos" competition group attended as well.

Highlights from the tournament: club instructor Anastasia Kazimirova won a Bronze Medal in sparring (black belt light weight), qualifying for the National Collegiate Team Trials and beating last year's champion in a 7-0 point gap decision in the quarterfinals. Jayson Grant won gold in sparring for the second year a in a row (men's middle weight). Bobby Ren, Alicia Zhou, Becca Hung and Karolina Corin qualified for the US National Collegiate Poomsae Team and will be representing the US this year in international competitions (Berkeley, CA and Belgrade, Serbia). MIT won the overall division over host school Brown by the slimmest of margins (98-96) and won the Overall National Collegiate Championship Title for the 2nd year in a row as a club. Tufts gained national recognition for the first time, placing third as a team in the Novice Division. Congratulations, all!

Spring Adult Promotion Test

03.14.09::Congratulations to everyone who tested on Saturday, March 14! It was an inspiring test with a lot of energy and great technique from the lower belts, combined with the power and skill demonstrated by Jason Greenberg on his 2nd Dan Test.

The following students have been promoted to the rank of GREEN STRIPE, 8th Gup: Lori T, Xuan L, David S

The following students have been promoted to the rank of GREEN BELT, 7th Gup: Samia M, Brandy W, Yoshiko I

The following students have been promoted to the rank of BLUE STRIPE, 6th Gup: Mike S, Maureen S

The following student has been promoted to the rank of BLUE BELT, 5th Gup: Wes A

The following student has been promoted to the rank of RED STRIPE, 4th Gup: Fang H S

The following instructor has been promoted to the rank of 2ND DAN BLACK BELT: Jason G

Another Successful Dojang Cleaning Day

03.7.09::The club got a head start on spring cleaning on March 7th. The dojang was painted, dusted, organized, washed, vacuumed, and steam-cleaned. Afterward there was pizza from The Upper Crust as a reward for the volunteers. Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help on a beautiful sunny Saturday: Dan, Brian M, Anastasia, Brett, Hamilton, Matt L, Jason G, Rene C, Mike S, Bessie, Agnieszka, Tanya, Wes, Brian L, Mariann, Yoshi, Xuan Lu, Lori, Mohammad, and Jason B (who also organized the event).

CWB on Ice!

02.21.09::Adults and kids alike had a great time at the Kendall Square ice skating event, where club members and their families came out to strap on skates and enjoy the winter weather. From skating laps to doing forms on ice, there was something for everyone. We had a great turnout, both at the rink and afterward at Cambridge Brewing Company for post-skating dinner. Special thanks to Tanya and Wes Austin, our Events V.P.s, for coordinating the outing. We look forward to more activities we can share with all of the people at CW Boston!

CWB Alumnae Aura Trevino Wins Bronze at World Poomsae Championships

02.09::Congratulations to Aura Trevino, former CWB instructor and Cornell Sport Taekwondo Alumnae, who recently won a bronze medal in the women's team (triple) poomsae division at the World Poomsae Championships in Turkey during December. She represented Mexico and also placed top 10 in the world in the women's 31-40 individual division. Aura was featured a few years ago in a Boston Metro article (PDF) about women in Taekwondo.

CW Boston in the News - Women in Taekwondo from the Boston Metro

An article by Alex Speier from the Boston Metro chronicles the popularity of Taekwondo (Tae Kwon Do) in general, and especially amongst women right here at CW Taekwondo. The article is in PDF format. You can view it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can get it here.

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February 4, 2008 - Bring a Friend Night at 7:30 pm.

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