On Friday, March 22, 2013, Ms. Brittany Briggs traveled to Andover, Massachusetts to compete in the 2013 INTERNATIONAL TANG SOO DO CHAMPIONSHIP. With more than 490 competitors, people traveled from as far as South Africa, Wales, Texas to New York and all over the United States. On Friday night Ms. Briggs placed 2nd in the Black Belt Mens & Womens Bo-Staff division. On Saturday March 23, she placed 2nd in the Black Belt Women.s Forms division and 1st place in the Black Belt Women.s Sparring division with over 10 competitors in each division.
We are very proud of Ms. Briggs and her results in the 2013 International Tang Soo Do Championship hosted by the American Tang Soo Do Association.

Friday, February 22, 2013 was an exciting evening here at Gentle Palm.  We had our Black Belt Pretest for all different levels and our 1 year Probationary Stripe Test. Joining us was Top Notch Karate of Newark.   It was a rigorous test lasting 3 hours and all the students worked hard to achieve their goals. Now they will be getting ready for their final test in September. 

Pre-testers for 1st Dan from our school were Tommy Wirt, Jason Ludlow, and Tim Humphreys.

1st Dan Black Belt was Awarded to Emma Davis 

Pre-testers from Top Notch Karate for 1st Dan were Tom Lynch, Jonathan Feliciano, Jesse Casarez
and Ian Lynch.

 Pre-tester for 3rd Dan was Steven Rotholz.

1st Dan Black Belt was Awarded were Timothy Boulet  Dan and Robert Desjardin

Our congratulations to all the testers on a job well done!