Instructors

Head Instructor

Dan Chuang

Master Dan Chuang is a certified 5th degree black belt (Kukkiwon #05082683), and earned his black belt under Master Han Don Cho of the Cornell University Sport Taekwondo Program. Dan currently serves as the head instructor for C.W. Taekwondo at Boston, which he runs in concert with the other senior instructors at the club. He is also the head coach of MIT's Sport Taekwondo Club, which was the Overall National Collegiate Champion in 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2010 and won the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference Cup from 2003-2006, in 2009 and 2011. As coach of the MIT team, Chuang was honored as the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association Coach of the Year.

Master Chuang works hard to organize competitions and promote Taekwondo at the national and regional levels. He serves as the Vice President of the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association. He was tournament director of the National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships and also runs an annual collegiate tournament at MIT. Chuang also serves as director of the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference, a league of over 500 students from Taekwondo clubs at over 25 colleges and universities which compete in a circuit of 5 tournaments per year.

Master Chuang has extensive coaching experience at the international level. He served as head coach of the 2010 US National Collegiate Taekwondo Team in Vigo, Spain at the World University Taekwondo Championships, and served as a coach of the US Collegiate Team in 2009 and 2008 at the World University Games and World University Taekwondo Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and the poomsae coach of the 2011 US National Collegiate Team at the World University Games Shenzhen, China. Master Chuang was also the men's team head coach for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, Spain, where he had the pleasure of coaching his friend and training partner, Olympian Chinedum Osuji. Chuang currently coaches t.Bos, a group of national and international level competitors who have been training at C.W. Taekwondo at Boston since 2001, including national and international champions.

Most recently Master Chuang has returned to competition and earned a spot on the US National Poomsae Team. He represented the United states in the men's Senior 2 division at the World Poomsae Championships in Vladivostok, Russia.

Chuang earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and currently works full time in that field as a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Senior Instructors

Kathy Chuang

Kathy Chuang is a 3rd degree black belt who currently teaches the Wednesday sparring class. She started training in TKD in 1995 with Master Fang-Hui Huang in New York City and attained her 1st dan under him in 1998. She joined CWB in 1999 informally as a member of their competition workouts group. She is a co-founder of the Harvard Taekwondo Club, and was a member of the Columbia Taekwondo Club. She has competed the state, national and international levels, bronzing both at the Nationals Collegiate Taekwondo Championships and Collegiate National Team Trials for black belt sparring. She currently is in residency training at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

Michael (Mike) Harb

Mike Harb is a Kukkwion-certified 5th degree black belt. He brings a wealth of competitive experience to the club as a former 6-time Australian National Team member, World Cup quarterfinalist and Olympic alternate for Taekwondo in the 2004 Athens Olympics. He is one of the coaches and team members of t.Bos, our competition group here at the dojang. Mike is also the head coach of the Tufts University Taekwondo program and sits on the Board of Directors for the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference. Mike serves as the manager of the training staff at Gold's Gym in Arlington.

Brian McCormick

Brian McCormick is a Kukkiwon-certified 3rd degree black belt and started his Taekwondo training at CW Boston in 2001. Brian teaches the Thursday Level 2 Core class. In the past he has served as both the club President and Treasurer. Brian has an MBA in Finance from Boston University and a BS in Management from Bentley University. He is employed by Middlesex Savings Bank as a Credit Officer and is an active community volunteer.

Adult Program Instructors

Patrick Starremans

Patrick Starremans is a 2nd degree black belt and teaches Level 1 Taekwondo (Mondays). He started Taekwondo at age 15 in the Netherlands, where he also experimented with several other martial arts, such as Shotokan Karate, Meibukan Goju Ryu and Aikido. Patrick joined C.W. Taekwondo Boston within 2 months after his arrival in the US in July 2003. He tested for both 1st and 2nd dan at CWB. Patrick holds a PhD in Medical Sciences, and he specialized in kidney disease during his 4-year post-doctoral period at Harvard Medical School. He now works as a kidney research scientist at a biotech company in the Greater Boston Area. Patrick and his wife reside in Belmont.

Nouredine Ousmane

Nouredine Ousmane is a 1st degree black belt and teaches Sparring class (Saturdays). He began his Taekwondo training in his native country of Niger in 2003 under Mansour Camara. Nouredine moved to Ithaca, NY in 2005 where he trained under Grandmastser Han Cho at C.W. Ithaca for two years before moving to Boston in 2007, where he continued his training at C.W. Boston. Nouredine is a System Administrator at Commonwealth Financial and also plays guitar in a band in his spare time. He is also an active Taekwondo competitor.

Youth Program Instructors

Jayson Grant

Jayson is a 3rd Degree black belt. He is currently a student at Quinsigamond Community College. Jayson is an accomplished competitor who holds two national sparring titles to his name (2006 and 2010), and has represented the United States at the 2008 Pan American Taekwondo Championships as well as the 2009 World University Games. Jayson has twice qualified for the US Olympic team trials: in 2007 he placed 4th and he qualified a spot at the trials for the spot at the 2012 London Games. Jayson currently trains with Coaches Dan Chuang and Fabio Takahashi at C.W. Taekwondo (t.Bos) and XCel Taekwondo.

Jason Greenberg

Jason Greenberg is a 2nd degree black belt. He teaches Cardiokickboxing and is an L1 assistant instructor. He also directs CWB's Little Tigers Youth Program. Jason began his training in Korea as a child in 1988, and continued later at George Washington University in Washington, DC from 2000-2003. He has trained at CWB since 2006, earning his 1st and 2nd degree black belt here. Jason has competed at the national and international levels, and has won gold medals at regional tournaments. He is an attorney in Boston practicing in the areas of civil and commercial litigation.

Amy Maillet

Amy Maillet is a 4th degree black belt. A graduate of Brandeis University and a straight-A student, Amy is a successful competitor and an accomplished instructor. She won the 2010 US National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships and represented the United States as a member of the 2010 US National Collegiate Taekwondo Team in Vigo, Spain at the World University Taekwondo Championships. She is a former US Open champion and a multiple time veteran of the US National Team trials. She currently trains with t.Bos, C.W. Taekwondo at Boston's competition team.

Cardiokickboxing Instructors

Darci Hanna

Darci Hanna earned her 1st degree black belt at the University of Kansas before moving to Massachusetts for graduate school. She has been taking classes at C.W. Taekwondo since the spring of 2008 and has been the cardiokickboxing membership director and substitute instructor since October 2009. She works at Massachusetts College of Art and Design curating contemporary art exhibitions and managing the visiting artist program. When she's not at cardiokickboxing, she also enjoys cycling, yoga, and running.

James Glettler

James Glettler is a 1st degree black belt. He teaches Cardiokickboxing and is an L1 assistant instructor. James joined CW Taekwondo Boston in 2005 and has competed with the MIT Sport TKD team. He currently works as an Electrical Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.