Taekwondo world champion Mitt Lenix was killed in drive-in theatre shooting DeKalb County, Georgia.

Martial arts expert Mitt Lenix, 28, was gunned down yesterday at the Starlight Drive-in in DeKalb County, Georgia.

The shooting triggered a chain of events, including a police chase and officer-involved accident that killed a second man. Police are still looking for the man who shot and killed Mr Lenix. Today, friends and family paid tribute to him.

Father Bill Lenix, who, with wife Candy, taught his son the discipline from the age of 18 months, told Wsbtv.com: ’The world has lost a wonderful person.’

DeKalb County police say Mr Lenix had car trouble and asked a man for help at the drive-in movie theatre. Police said that man was Quentric Williams, who pulled out a gun, shot the Taekwondo master and then took off.

‘We did forgive the guy who shot my son,’ said Mrs Lenix, the victim’s mother. His father said Mr Lenix, a former combat medic with the National Guard, was ‘a person of excellence.’

Mr Lenix, from Georgia, was a Junior Olympic world champion and a two-time world creative breaking champion.

‘We don’t know why this was the end of his time on this earth, but we know his legacy will continue,’ said Bill Lenix.

Family and friends paid tribute to the martial arts expert, with students saying how he inspired them.

Mr Lenix was a Junior Olympic world champion and a two-time world creative breaking champion. He was also studying for pre-med exams. His family says his greatest achievement was sharing his knowledge with younger students.

The 28-year-old taught martial arts at his family's school, Universal Martial Arts in Henry County.

Young martial arts student Joshua Nogal said: ‘I learned how to be a better person in life. How to treat others the way I want to be treated because he was a role model for us.’

Fellow student Brandon Cantilang told Wsbtv.com: ‘He taught me how to have more courage in myself.’   Mitt Lenix taught martial arts at his family’s school, Universal Martial Arts in Henry County.

His father and mother said they will continue teaching at Universal Martial Arts because that’s what their son would’ve wanted. ‘He was a gentleman. He was a scholar, he was our hero and he was our son,’ Bill Lenix said.

Source: Mail Online

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Nguyen Truong Cuong was the only Vietnamese fighter who reached the title by a narrow victory (5-4) in overtime against Uzbek Baykuziyey Jasur, in the closure of the seven-day competition this weekend.

The regional event was attended by 300 taekwondokas from 34 nations, in the youth and champion categories, and the corresponding female branches.

Like a similar event of European champions, which was held simultaneously in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, the Asian competition provided qualifying slots for the upcoming 2012 Olympics.

In Ho Chi Minh City, South Korean Dai Son Lee was reelected as head of the Asian Taekwondo Union.

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ETU expects a total of 2.500 competitors to take part in this event. More information will follow soon!

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Iranian taekwondo fighter Abolfazl Yaghoubi Jouybari took the country’s medal tally to six when he snatched the second gold medal for Iran on Sunday.

In the men’s -48kg division, the Iranian athlete defeated his rivals from Taiwan, Thailand, Tajikistan and the Philippines before brushing aside a stiff challenge from his Jordanian opponent Almuatasembellah Abuzaid to win the final match 7-5 for the gold medal.

Totally, the Iranian squad won two gold medals by Abolfazl Yaghoubi Jouybari in -45kg and Pouria Erfanian Daneshvar in -78kg divisions, two silvers by Seyyed Abbas Sadeghi Tabari in -45kg and Mohammad Kazemi Foushazadeh in -51kg sections, and two bronze medals by Fatemeh Sha’bannia Mansour in -42kg and Atousa Zahrabiparvaresh in -49kg divisions.

The 9th World Junior Championships took place at the Sharm el-Sheikh Covered Hall, from April 4 to April 8. The World Taekwondo Federation, the sport’s governing body, said the biennial championships attracted a total of 753 athletes, including 424 males, from 90 countries.

During the five-day competition, Korea took home four gold and three silver medals for a total of 89 points in the men’s division, followed by Iran with two gold and two silver medals for 62 points. Russia came third with one gold and two bronze medals.

In the women’s division, Korea grabbed four gold medals for 73 points, followed by Russia with three golds and one bronze. Turkey finished third with two silver and two bronze medals.

The Best Male Athlete honors of the championships went to Korea’s Yeong-seok Kim, the gold medalist in the men’s -55kg category, while Korea’s Byeol Choi, the gold medal winner in the women’s -44kg division, was selected as the Best Female Athlete.

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Teams will compete in the 1st Asian Junior Taekwondo Poomsae Championships(May 4th), the 2nd Asian Taekwondo Poomsae Championships(May 5th), the 6th Asian Junior Taekwondo Championships(May 6th~8th), the 20th Asian Taekwondo Championships(May 9th~11th).

The opening ceremony was held on May 4th in the venue of the competition Phu Tho Stadium. In the opening ceremony, Dai soon Lee, the President of Asian Taekwondo Union said:

“This Asian Taekwondo Championships, which starts today, is more important and significant than ever. First, this is an international taekwondo championship which is held three month prior to the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

So this championship is more or less like the eve of Olympics wishing the success of the Olympics. Therefore the Asian Taekwondo Championships today should be able to realize the Olympic spirit just as the 2012 London Olympic Games themselves.”

The list of the countries is Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cambodia, China, Chinese Taipei, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanma, Pakistan, Palestine, Philipines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen.

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In September 2010, Escoto published an article in masTaekwondo.com titled “In the political networks of Taekwondo “ (Only published in Spanish). Today, PATU is giving us more questions than answers, Adalberto Escoto (former President of PATU and former Executive Committee Member of the WTF), gives us once again details of different internal situations of PATU that probably many do not know.

Interests and Sports; In the political Networks of Taekwondo (II) By Master Adalberto Escoto

Although I make an effort to remain silent and beyond political discord within our Taekwondo, I confess that it is difficult for me and I am in the dilemma of writing, even though my students from the Dominican Federation have warned me not to do it to avoid any infallible reaction of the President of PATU.

There was once a claim to the Dominican leaders about an abnormal situation that I had discovered in PATU two years ago and I asked questions to the other board members but with this I opened a can of worms, which was finally suppressed efficiently by the current leader of the organization. For this I clarify that my ideas and things I say in this paper have nothing to do with what the FEDOTAE leaders think and I release them from any responsibility in what I write.

At that time I accidentally received an electronic invitation to participate in a “certification course Poomsae” offered by PATU in the United States, which instructed participants to register by paying a large sum of money in a bank account under the name of a teacher of a local gym. I found this very strange knowing that this person was not the treasurer or auditor or official member of PATU. I started consulting different members of the executive committee and none had information or knowledge about this activity, not even my friend auditor Mr. Eduardo Labadie from Uruguay or the local vice president, who was then the Managing Director of USAT, Mr. David Askinas, who informed me that he didn´t know of this and that USAT was not organizing this and wasn´t involved in it. I crossed a number of e-mails with a group of executives of the organization, including the General Secretary of Mexico and several Vice Presidents, but I noticed that they did not want to confront this situation and ask President Choi an explanation.

The same President Choi in an attempt to calm me down and stop me from asking, assured me this was all a mistake that was already taken cared of and all the funds for the event would go to the PATU account, and asked me to write no more about the matter. To my surprise, nobody in the organization, no member of the Executive Committee other than the president, knew of this fundraising event which was offering an official certification of the organization and the name PATU was being used. I wonder, Is that the only event of its kind presented by Mr. Choi to raise funds? Who controls or regulates such funds if the executive committee has not met? How many similar events are presented by Mr. Choi in a year? … What kind of financial controls are exercised by the executive committee (the same that does not meet ever)? What kind of interest ties this man that is not accepted in his national federation in any leading position, but is inserted in a Latin American conglomerate with which it has absolutely nothing in common?

But my biggest question is: How is it possible to distrust ourselves, that we are not able to select once and for all our own leaders as responsible for our own sports destiny?

In recent months I have heard of the threats of resignation and the resignation of several members of the executive committee acting as a rejection of President Choi for leading the Corporation unilaterally. But all these leaders yielded due to the pressure exerted on them in Colombia four years ago to elect Mr. Choi! These leaders that now complain about President PATU, heard cheerfully deceitful offers at the free food restaurants, where they will be brought again at the end of May in Portland, Oregon. They know they will be fed back again with new promises that everything will change, they know … and are happy and ready to celebrate.

Every four years in PATU happens the same as in party politics of our countries, a war of bidding and purchase of consciousness gets uncover in which many of our national leaders put their personal interests to those of their countries and their national federations, (as stated by the Secretary General Ramonetti), they find a space in the picture to register. For this, they gladly hear and defend the spectacular and inexplicable or illogical proposals of candidates who come from distant lands to conquer, with promises of travels to Korea and packages of Taekwondo uniforms, and once again we revere them and let them submit us to the same. It infuriates me that that they take us as fools… and we give them the reason again and again.

It is time we realize that no Mecias will save us, stand up to the Olympics and give us a medal without a sports development plan supported in short and long term, as Europe and Asia does it. The solution to the limited performance of our Taekwondo competitors in international events can only be generated by ourselves, working together as a group, without being used by people who have nothing in common with us and only have a personal interest in Taekwondo and use us as a mean to achieve them. As I said before, we have grown enough to walk by ourselves. Shall we do it…?

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Latipov Abbos, Resident Vice President of Uzbekistan Taekwondo Association said “I am very happy for the news. I hope all the people will enjoy the culture and spirit of Uzbekistan during the visit.”

Baek Moon Jong, who is newly designated as Vice President of Uzbekistan Taekwondo Association also said “Being a first timer to host an international game, we have to admit, last time, we were not properly equipped. We are ready to present a perfect game now.”

During this meeting, the country to hold the 2013 Junior Taekwondo championships was also revealed. : Indonesia, which outvoted Bahrain and India 7-4-0.

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Diliman Preparatory School president and former Sen. Nikki Coseteng and Sung Chon Hong, vice president of the Philippine Taekwondo Association pose with the Filipino medalists in the just concluded Asian Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Ho Chi Minh City.

Jean Pierre Sabido, Galilee Tinaya and Marvin Gabriel impressed the judges with their fine form to beat rivals from host Vietnam, Chinese Taipei and Iran for the title in the men’s team Under-29, a division that Phl coach Igor Mella described as “the most difficult category” in the meet.

Phl’s beauteous former world champions Rani Ortega, Janice Lagman and Camille Alarilla, however, fell short in the distaff side and settled for the second place behind Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Thu Ngan, Chau Tuyet Van and Nguyen Thi Xuan Linh.

Also coming home with a silver were the trio of Edrick Galing, Ernesto Guzman and Glenn Lava who took runner up honors in the men’s team Over-29 to Iran’s triumphant entries.

Guzman made it to the podium one more time as he pocketed a bronze in the men’s individual Under-39 competition which was dominated by Korean Sung-Hey Kim.

Displaying their superiority in a martial art they gave birth to, the Koreans swept all six individual events to emerge the top nation in the poomsae side of the Asian tilt, according to the World Taekwondo Media.

Host Vietnam (two golds, five silvers and three bronzes) finished second overall, followed by iran (2-3-6), the Philippines (1-2-1) then Thailand (1-1-1).

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Impressive: Martin Stamper won a bronze medal at the European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester

Olympic hopeful Martin Stamper and fellow Briton Caroline Fisher collected bronze medals on the final day of the European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, in what was Team GB’s best ever showing in the competition.

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Dorset-born fighter Cook trailed for much of the final, but Azizov’s defensive tactics drew disapproval from the referee who issued numerous penalties, known as ‘kwong-go’.

With a second to go the referee runs out of patience and awards a deduction penalty ‘gam-jeom’ to disqualify the Azerbaijan fighter.

Afterwards, Cook says he feels sorry for his rival but adds the victory felt “so sweet”.

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