Martial Arts Instructor Wins Internatinal Tournament
It was his first international trip,and he wasmoments away from representing the USA in the International Tang Soo Do competition, held Nov. 11 and 12 in the Netherlands. "The competition was pretty much for Europeans only," said Moran, who owns Xtreme Edge Martial Arts in Lyndhurst. "There were a lot of people from Germany, Wales, Poland, Sweden, and London.I was an American, a Latino, knowing no one. "I felt like the underdog, the outcast. Coming from America to a whole different, country and my style of martial arts is Shotokan, Japanese, while the competition was the Korean style — that meant completely different techniques." And so, before the competition started, ....
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