Institute Of Martial Arts Tournament - November 24th, 2024

Congratulations to all the American Martial Arts Center students who attended the Institute of Martial Arts Center Invitational Tournament on Nov 24, 2024. Your hard work and dedication really showed!

Madelyn Bouchard	Lydia Hanson	Zachery Maglairditi	Violette Torti
2nd in forms	3rd in forms	1st in forms	3rd in breaking
2nd in weapons	1st in weapons	1st in weapons	3rd in weapons
3rd in breaking	3rd in breaking	1st in sparring	2nd in sparring
3rd in sparring	2nd in sparring
		Noah Sarette	Logan Travassos
Drew Fleischer	Noah Lombardy	2nd in weapons	1st in forms
2nd in forms	3rd in forms	3rd in sparring	1st in breaking
1st in breaking	3rd in weapons		2nd in weapons
1st in weapons	1st in sparring	Garette Torti
		2nd in breaking
Erelah Fleischer		2nd in sparring
3rd in breaking
1st in sparring

 

Yankee Nationals Tournament - October 6th, 2024

Congratulations to all of the students who completed in the 60th Annual Connecticut Yankee Nationals tournament. Thank you also to the instructors who came out to support the competitors, and special congratulations to Mrs. Sarah Carlson, the tournament's women's grand champion!!!

Black Belt Grading - October 5th, 2024

American Martial Arts Center held a Black Belt grading on Oct 5, 2024. The candidates demonstrated a mastery of skills in forms, self-defense, techniques and weapons. Grand Master Ken Saucier proudly promoted Mr. Donald Sarette to 1st Dan and Mrs. Donna Gilbert to 2nd Dan. 

Additionally, Master John Feeney received his promotion to 5th Dan. Congratulations to everyone!

Institute Of Martial Arts Tournament - June 2nd, 2024

Congratulations to all of the students who competed at Grandmaster Needham's spring tournament. AMAC was well represented and took home a lot of hardware! Results are posted below.

 

Madelyn Bouchard	Myla Cunniff	Noah Lombardy	Garette Torti
1st in Forms	2nd in sparring	2nd in Forms	3rd in Weapons
1st in Weapons		1st in Weapons	2nd in Breaking
1st in Breaking	Joshua Gaudreau	1st in Sparring	3rd in sparring
2nd in sparring	4th in Breaking
		Zachery Maglairditi	Violette Torti
Lexi Carlson	Nicholas Gaudreau	1st in Forms	3rd in Sparring
2nd in Forms	3rd in Forms	1st in Weapons
2nd in Weapons	4th in Weapons		Logan Travassos
3rd in Breaking	2nd in Sparring	Evelyn St Andre	2nd in Forms
1st in Sparring		3rd in Weapons	1st in Weapons
		2nd in Breaking	3rd in Breaking
		3rd in Sparring	1st in Sparring

Master Belt Grading - June 24th, 2023

 

On June 24th, American Martial Arts Center held a Master Belt grading at the AMAC Dojang. The honorific of Master in the art of Tang Soo Do is achieved at the 4th degree level. Candidates demonstrated a mastery of skills in forms, sparring, self-defense, weapons and board breaking. 

Grandmaster Ken Saucier promoted the following students: 

Christopher Cavar 6th Dan	Merideth Cotta 4th Dan
Joshua Lacourse 6th Dan	Roberto Grelle 4th Dan
Brendan Boucher 5th Dan	Audrey Hussey 4th Dan
Matthew Yaskovic 5th Dan

 

In addition, a very special recognition was given to Anne McCoy form McCoys Action Karate, Auburn Mass as 8th Dan Grandmaster in Tang Soo Do.

Black Belt Grading - October 1st, 2021

On Friday, October 1st, Master Ken Saucier conducted a Black Belt grading at the AMAC dojang. A total of four students graded and were promoted as follows:

• Master Paula Saucier - 7th Dan
• Master Josh Washburn - 4th Dan
• Master Emily Feeney - 4th Dan
• Mr. Kerry Baker - 2nd Dan
  

Congratulations to all, and thank you very much to the members of the Black Belt panel who participated in the grading.

AMAC Gup Grading - September 24th, 2021

On Friday, September 24th, Master Saucier conducted a gup grading at the AMAC Dojang. In all, fourteen students were promoted. Congratulations to everyone who graded, and a special congratulations to our newest Apprentice Black Belts, Ariana Payne and Ryan McAuliffe!

Orange Belt	Blue Belt	Green Belt	Red Belt	Apprentice
Blake Mattia (9 Gup)	Elijah Torres (8 Gup)	Logan Hamel (4 Gup)	Jillian Benoit (1 Gup)	Ariana Payne
		Victoria Ryan (5 Gup)		Ryan McAuliffe
		Joseph Person  (5 Gup)
		Nolan DesRosiers (6 Gup)
		Anthony Mielniczuk  (6 Gup)
		Nicholas Mielniczuk (6 Gup)
		Blaise Owen (6 Gup)
		Sadey Sarette (6 Gup)
		Donald Sarette (6 Gup)