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The plan for this page is to recount a little about my experience with Tang Soo Do.\u00a0 It’s taking a while to pull it all together but it’ll get\u00a0there.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"TangSooDo\"<\/a>I started training after college shortly after moving back to my hometown from Storrs.\u00a0 I had no idea what I was looking for at the time and it was shear luck that I stumbled across Breuer’s Martial Arts<\/strong>, as nearly as I can reconstruct it,\u00a0late in 1987.\u00a0 It had the virtue of being close to my condo and in the same strip mall as my gym.\u00a0 I started alternating nights going to one or the other to train going to the gym for strength training and the dojang for “martial aerobics” as I initially thought of it.\u00a0 My roommate at the time and high school pal, Chris, had some background in Aikido and joined the school also.\u00a0 My younger brother, Tom,\u00a0even trained there for a bit.<\/p>\n

The school’s owner, Sa Bom Eric Breuer, had a great attitude about teaching and sharing his enjoyment of Tang Soo Do.\u00a0\u00a0 Even though I only trained with him for a couple of years, I consider him a major influence on my attitude about training and, later, on what I looked for in a new school.<\/p>\n

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My old uniform from Breuer’s Martial Arts.\u00a0 Sadly, my old belts were lost in a basement flooding incident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was at Breuer’s for a couple of years earning my orange and then green belt under Chuck Norris Karate System shortly before if became Chun Kuk Do in 1990.\u00a0 There were a lot of changes at that time both in the school and in my work life.\u00a0 For various reasons, mostly a job related relocation,\u00a0Sa Bom Breuer sold the school to two of his senior black belts, Jeff and Steve Giroux.\u00a0\u00a0Between the philosophical shifts in the school and changes in my work schedule\u00a0commitments, I ended up setting Tang Soo Do aside shortly before I would have probably been ready to test for my red belt.<\/p>\n

The school lasted in that location for a few more years until the Giroux’s left for college.\u00a0 Both\u00a0brothers\u00a0opened and still operate successful martial arts schools in Connecticut after they graduated.\u00a0 I didn’t hear about it until many years later but Sa Bom Breuer had another UFAF affiliated school in Waterbury in the mid-90s in addition to climbing the professional ladder with the Connecticut State Police.\u00a0 When he retired from CSP he was part of the Governor’s personal security detail.<\/p>\n