2nd PanAm Mulimpia Las Vegas 2018

04/11/2024

I am incredibly honored to welcome my Master JeongWoo Kim, my instructor TaeKyoung Lee, and there demonstration team from South Korea for the Haidong Gumdo PanAmerican Championships. This is a dream come true, and the fulfillment of a quest I began in 2002 after attending the World Championships. The Haidong Gumdo World Championships changed my life and helped shape my future. When I first started competing at the Worlds in Korea, I was not a successful school owner. I worked several jobs. In fact, I sold my furniture and my prized jeep Cherokee to be able to afford to go and cover my school while gone. It was very difficult. I took one student with me , Mr Rupesh Patel, a young teenager at that time. I’m astounded at the trust he and his family showed in me. Travel to the other side of the world, to a country whose language we didn’t speak to compete. Amazing.
But, the experience, character, and comrades that adventure gave us both was….. immeasurable.
I knew many would or could not travel to Korea for this adventure, and I knew I wanted to be able to offer this to martial artists here on this content. I started in 2009 with the US Opens and then the 2011 PanAmerican Championships. Both were wonderful events that many said helped shaped there martial arts path. We also achieved success in 2016 and 2018 with the PanAm Mulimpia.
But now, here in Utah, my home, we have a chance again to offer the next generation the chance of adventure, experience, and of new comrades, to help build their character and shape their future path.
A dream come true.
Welcome to Utah! Salute to those of you who sacrificed for the journey, trained for the competition, and deserves the credit as one who shall always be known as a Haidong Gumdo PanAmerican competitor!
Haidong!
Dashihanbeon!
Never Quit!

09/28/2023

Challenging all Pan-American Haidong Gumdo martial artists! Answer the call of international competition! See you in Utah, April 12-14, 2024. The Year of the Dragon!
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07/16/2023

Event held near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

07/15/2023

Haidong!
Greetings to all Pan-American HaidongGumdo martial artists! I hope you and your training is going well. We are very happy to announce our next HaidongGumdo Pan-American Championships. The PanAm championships has an interesting history dating back to Utah, USA in 2011. Since then we tried the PanAm Mulimpia, in Las Vegas, Nevada 2016 and 2018. Some of our senior leaders have recommended that we concentrate the championships on its original purpose, HaidongGumdo.
So with this in mind, we are hosting our next HaidongGumdo Pan-American Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 12-14, 2024. Please reserve these dates for your participation. We have worked hard selecting both the dates and location for the best event possible, and we hope you can make these dates available for this event. We understand that some students may miss a few days of school, and we hope you can work with their teachers so that their studies do not suffer.
This exciting event will include many individual and group competitions. Korea will be sending Masters for expert training seminars and a special Demonstration team. There will be Black Belt testing for those who are eligible for promotion. And much, much more!
We are working very hard to bring to you the original HaidongGumdo style championships that we have loved so much in the past, as well as creating additional divisions giving each participant more events to compete in. We will be sending tournament rules and categories out as soon as possible.
Our main mission and focus for having this championship is to continue to offer the next generation their chance to have their adventures become the stories of the future. Without our competitions and demonstrations how would any of us know each other and our martial arts?
It is our goal that this is a new beginning for a consistent and successful HaidongGumdo PanAm championships that we can be proud of and look forward to many future events.
If you have any questions please email Headmaster Jeong Woo Kim at [email protected] or contact Host Master Marshall Parnell at [email protected], 801-787-0838.
Sincerely,
July 11, 2023
Jeong Woo Kim, Pan-American Headmaster
Yang Tae Kim, Mexico Headmaster
Marshall Parnell, USA Chief Master
Laura Clement, USA Chief Master
Julian Vasquez, USA Chief Master
Becky Alan, USA Chief Master
Eric Jenko, USA Chief Master
Varo Barragan, Panama Chief Master
Abelardo Benzaquen, Argentina Chief Master
Jose Amador, Puerto Rico Chief Master
Haidong!

Event held near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

03/14/2023

Sharing information about Headmaster Kim coming to Utah in April.

04/15/2019

World Mulimpia Championships!!

04/03/2019

HaidongGumdo Masters Seminar in World Mulimpia place.
Mulim! Haidong!