News

Black Belt Graduation - December 3rd, 2010

On Friday December 3rd, 2010 eight of our students were promoted during the Black Belt grading in Waterbury CT.

• Promoted from 1st to 2nd Dan
  • John Yascovic
  • James McHale
• Promoted from Apprentice to 1st Dan
  • Nicolas LaFazia
  • Theo Mihailidess
  • Angelina LaFazia
  • Amy Gareau
  • Colin LeSage
  • Lynn Kosiver

In total 46 students graduated to various ranks of Black Belt. Congratulations to all!

Black Belt Graduation - September 24th, 2010

On Friday September 24th three of our students were promoted during the Black Belt grading in Waterbury CT. Kia Tellier and Matthew Yaskovic were promoted from 1st to 2nd Dan. John Feeney was promoted from Apprentice to 1st Dan. In total 44 students graduated to various ranks of Black Belt. Congratulations to all!

Old News

Tournament Results

On Sunday May 23rd several students competed in the Third Federation Intra-School Tournament in Waterbury. Check out some of our trophy winners below. Complete results are available on the Cheezic website. Master Saucier and Mrs. Shemick also judged at the event. Congratulations to all below who competed and represented our school so well!

Sparring		Weapons
Name	Place	Name	Place
Mark O'Toole	1st Place	Nicolas LaFazia	3rd Place
Mrs. Shaw	1st Place	Angelina LaFazia	4th Place
Andrew Shemick	2nd Place
Peter O'Toole	2nd Place
Michael O'Toole	3rd Place
Noah Shaw	5th Place

Big Graduation on Friday May 7th

On Friday May 7th we graduated 28 students from our school and 5 from the Lincoln YMCA under Black Belt Mr. Boucher. For more details and photos, click here.

New Class Schedule

There will be no more Monday or Wednesday classes for a while...

The list below is the setup for the children’s classes. This change will take effect on Tuesday May 11, 2010. All classes will be on Tuesday and Thursday

• The 1st class will be from 6:00 to 6:45
• The 2nd class will be from 6:45 to 7:30
• The last class will be from 7:30 to 8:30

The Saturday morning classes will remain the same with all children in the same class.

If anyone has a conflict with the time of the class, please see Master Saucier so we can work it out.

20 Graduate on Friday April 2nd

The adult class promoted 20 students on Friday April 2nd, including our newest Apprentice Black Belt, Stephen Duquette. For more details and photos, click here.

Website Updated

We've started the web site update and we could use your help. We'd like to add some images (short slide shows) that demonstrate the benefits of martial arts and AMAC. Thus we need pictures that demonstrate words such as:

Power, Flexibility, Balance/Coordination, Discipline, Self Defense, Confidence, Honor/Respect, Family Fun.

Please let the Master or John Feeney know if you have pictures we can use. Tang Soo!

Hall of Fame

It was announced Sunday at the tournament that Master Kaitlyn Saucier will be inducted into the Action Martial Arts Magazine's Hall of Fame. She will be receiving this award in Atlantic City, NJ. That will make three master belts from the Saucier family that will be in the Hall of Fame. Anyone wishing to go down to Atlantic City to attend this dinner see Master Ken Saucier.

Hall of Fame

On January 12, 2008 some masters from the Cheezic Tang Soo Do Federation were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Among those who received this honor was our Master Paula Saucier. She began her martial arts training in February 1988 and since then has attained the rank of Master Belt 5th Degree. Over the years she has done much in the federation, competed and won many awards, attended seminars and met many other martial artist in her travels. Among those that she has met are; Chuck Norris, Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, Jean Frenette (Canadian Champion), and Andrea Tippett (future Hall of Famer for the New England Patriots). She has been a major builder of AMAC over the years. She has helped to build all the programs that we now have in place, as well as has been and continues to be an inspiration to other women in the martial arts. Master Saucier competed in the federation tournaments against other master belts and won in weapons and forms competition. She was one of only two women who competed in this division against the men, the other woman who competed was her daughter Master Kaitlyn Saucier. While completing it was one of those two women who usually won first place. I would have to say we are very lucky indeed to have her as part of our school. Congratulations Master Paula Saucier on your huge accomplishment, I hope other women see what you have done and follow your example as to what a woman in the martial arts can do.

Photos

At AMAC we have a site for photos of everything that happens to us... gradings, tournaments, demos, gatherings of every kind... all sorts of things happen in our lives... I would like you to add photos that you may want to share online with us... anyone who would like to download their photos on our site for all to see may do so, in fact we encourage it... We like to see what is going on in your world as a student of AMAC... If your are interested in downloading photos, see Mrs. Leeder or myself and we will gladly tell you how you can do this...