TMAS was founded by Chief Instructor Noly Caluag on September 2002. Caluag opened the school when he realized there is a need for quality instruction for Taekwondo as a traditional martial art.
The dojang is fully air-conditioned and equipped with modern amenities: as state of the art training mats, punching bags, full-length mirrors, kicking shields and paddles.
Regular classes consist of fundamental stretching, basic stances, punching, blocking and stepping techniques, TaeGuk forms and study free-sparring. For the intermediate and advance classes, more complicated forms are taught, plus advance sparring techniques.
Blackbelts from our school are given the opportunity to hone their skills with special training classes which involve high intensity paddle drills and Olympic-style full-contact sparring sessions. Several of our blackbelts have been on the National Taekwondo Team and have won several medals for Guam in forms and sparring during the last few Oceania Taekwondo Championships. Our blackbelt instructors are given special seminars for advance blackbelt forms given by WTF-certified referees and judges.
Our students have special self-defense and special Olympic-style training classes for international sparring competition. We have invited world champions, Olympians, and weapons experts to train our students in the different aspects of our martial art.
TMAS students enjoy many benefits as we have organized and sponsored over 25 Taekwondo tournaments, martial arts exhibitions and demonstrations throughout Guam. The most highly skilled students are given the opportunity to be on the prestigious Demonstration Team. Our students are able to apply their physical and mental skills through our Taekwondo sparring tournaments which we hold at the Micronesia Mall up to 3 times a year.
We are also very active in community service. Since 2007, TMAS has joined in the coastal clean up in Ypao Beach in cooperation with the Bureau of Statistics and Planning (“Coastal Clean-up”). Our school also donated clothes to the Dededo Mayor’s Battered Women Project. In 2008, TMAS students donated toys to Manila’s poor children c/o Ateneo University Center for Education Development (Philippines). In the same year TMAS also gave canned goods and other non-perishable food items to Sanctuary for distribution to needy families. In the summer of 2009, TMAS gave free Taekwondo lessons to about 200 kids at the Dededo Mayor’s “No Drugs, Anti-Violence” Summer Camp.
About TMAS