LINCROFT, N.J. — Master Gregory Smith of the East Coast Martial Arts Institute and the Staten Island YMCA Tae Kwon Do program reports that nine of his students took home 17 medals from the 8th N.J. Tae Kwon Do Open Championships at Brookdale Community College.<\/p>\n
In all, five golds, six silvers and six bronze medals were mined by the individuals<\/p>\n
The gold medal winners were Jacob Jimenez (sparring in 10-11-year-old boys\u2019 Black lightweight division), Patricia Block-Sheehan (freestyle breaking in the girls\u2019 15-17 Black belt division, Mike Leydeker (power breaking and board breaking in the men\u2019s Brown belt division) and Nicholas Leydeker (obstacle course in the boys\u2019 6-8 blue belt division).<\/p>\n
Check out the full results below: <\/p>\n
Berry Shehata – Girls\u2019 10-11 green belt <\/p>\n
Board break – silver <\/p>\n
Forms – silver<\/p>\n
Mohamed Shehata – Boys\u2019 6-7 green belt<\/p>\n
Board breaking – bronze <\/p>\n
Forms – silver <\/p>\n
Marco Farina – Boys\u2019 10-11 brown belt<\/p>\n
Board breaking – silver <\/p>\n
Julien Arroyo – 10-11 Black belt middleweight <\/p>\n
Sparring – bronze<\/p>\n
Jacob Jimenez – 10-11 Black belt lightweight<\/p>\n
Sparring – gold <\/p>\n
Patricia Block-Sheehan – Girls 15-17 Black belt<\/p>\n
Freestyle breaking – gold <\/p>\n
Sparring – bronze <\/p>\n
Mike Leydeker — Men\u2019s Brown belt <\/p>\n
Power breaking – gold <\/p>\n
Board breaking – gold <\/p>\n
Forms – silver <\/p>\n
Nathan Leydeker – Boys\u2019 9 black belt<\/p>\n
Board breaking – silver <\/p>\n
Forms – bronze<\/p>\n
Nicholas Leydeker – Boys\u2019 6-8 blue belt <\/p>\n
Obstacle course – Gold <\/p>\n
Board breaking – bronze <\/p>\n
Forms – bronze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCROFT, N.J. — Master Gregory Smith of the East Coast Martial Arts Institute and the Staten Island YMCA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-67943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}