June 27, 2023
It's now been a month since the European Championship ...and sunny days ever since the arrival of our first guests here in Sweden ;-)
I want to express a HUGE THANK YOU to the volunteers that made this possible. It was hard work, particularly as this was a first for us. But shared work is also shared reward and in the spirit of TSD - we give, share and grow together!
My thanks to the teams from Sollentuna and Täby TSD KK that set everything up in the venue, took it all down, manned the floors, the grill etc. etc.
A special shout-out to the volunteer drivers that helped competitors to and from the airport at all sorts of hours - thank you! It was over an above but your contribution made the travels for the competitors much smoother than having gone on city buses etc.
I want to send extra special gratitude to Master Lee's Dutch team that spent hours with us in online meetings and chats during the spring, up through the championship and beyond on competition admin, making sure we could run a fair and smooth competition for all. This was truly a shared European effort!
Thank you BKCN Khan, all Masters (extra WOW! to the long distance traveling masters from Alaska, Texas and Pennsylvania), club/studio owners, thank you all competitors and of course thank you all friends and family that came along to support the competitors!
And of course - thank you KCN Strong for your continued support!
Tang Soo!
Daniel Marcko
TSD Sweden
Extra appreciation to our special guests instructors!
KCN Strong, 9 Dan (USA)
BKCN Khan, 8 Dan (UK)
7 Dan Master Homscheck (USA)
6 Dan Master West (USA)
5 Dan Master Marcko (Sweden)
5 Dan Master Gebhardt (USA)
5 Dan Master Russo (USA)
4 Dan Master Fredricks (USA)
Tuesday VIP Guest
On Tuesday we were joined by Jesse Enkamp, aka Jesse The Karate Nerd. Jesse had asked to join us to find out more about TSD. He trained alongside everyone while his film crew documented for a future "drop".
https://www.youtube.com/@KARATEbyJesse
Jesse is a local martial artist with a very large following on YouTube where he highlights different styles of martial arts, visits countries and researches history.