It's with a heavy heart that we say that T's competition Taekwondo Fighting journey has come to an end. There were some mishaps that happened at Nationals during T's fight and instead of his coach/Master turning them into learning/growing experiences between coach and student his coach made a very extreme and harsh decision to kick T off the sparring team entirely. T has been overwrought with heartbreak over all that has transpired since Nationals. His coach wouldn't give T or Scot the time of day to talk and work things out. They had a meeting with the coach but his mind was set and there was no changing it. T has worked so incredibly hard and to have a coach do to him what was done was extreme and completely uncalled for. The coach allowed his ego and pride to get in the way and he hurt a student very deeply who thought the world of him but now hates the man. If he never ever sees this coach/Master again that will be fine with him. I've never known him to be like this either. We have all been so taken aback by this and are still reeling from it. That someone could be as cruel and awful as this coach has been just astounds us. At some point T will earn his 4th Dan Master stripe (probably back at Black Belt World with his Grand Master) but for now he's taking a complete break and we are looking forward to family time and being able to have some real fun instead of training and doing tournaments all the time. T still wants to stay in shape though so we are looking into other options for that. If he decides after some time has past to delve back into sparring then at that point we will have to find another coach entirely. Either way we are just going to enjoy having more family time and I'm going to get my living room back. Hooray for that!!!
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