The 2010 Taekwondo Junior Olympics were held in Orlando Florida June 28-July 2 and featured over 4500 participants from all 50 States. Although they qualified 14 athletes at States, Kiffmann Taekwondo was only able to send 3 athletes this year due to the difficult economic times.

Camryn Henry captured the silver medal in the female 10-11 black belt heavy weight division after a first round bye and defeating her opponents from Pennsylvania and Montana, before she lost to Texas in a controversial split decision after a 1:1 tie and a no score sudden victory round.
Camryn is the first female athlete from Maui to make it into finals in a black belt world class division at Nationals.

Justin Koja got gold in the boys 10-11 color belt fin weight sparring division. After a first round bye he defeated Texas in semis and later Pennsylvania in the finals. Justin also got a gold in the Forms division.
Jim Campbell got bronze in the boys 8-9 color belt fin weight sparring division and a bronze in Forms.

International Taekwondo Festival 2010
May 28, 2010 to May 29, 2010 - City of Industry, California

Jim Campbell: Gold -Sparring, Silver-Forms

2010 USAT STATE TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS/NATIONAL QUALIFIER
March13, 2010, WAIPAHU, HI

The Kiffmann Taekwondo team qualified 14 athletes for this year’s Junior/Senior Nationals in Orlando, Florida June 28 - July 4, 2010

Black Belts: Sparring/Forms
Jonathan Baisa- Silver
Bradley Castro- Bronze
Camryn Henry- Gold
Jamal Jones- Bronze
Miles Kiffmann- Gold
Christian Sialana-Bronze/Silver

Color Belts: Sparring/Forms
Tristan Kanekoa- Silver/Gold
Will Kepler- Gold/Gold
Josh Kepler- Gold/Silver
Justin Koja- Gold/Gold
Adounay Dabo- Gold
Jim Campbell- Gold/Bronze
Edward Omine- Gold/Silver
Ailana Suehiro- Gold/Gold

US OPEN TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
FEBRUARY 10-14, LAS VEGAS, NV press release

MILES KIFFMANN - BRONZE - JUNIOR LIGHT WEIGHT
CAMY HENRY-5TH PLACE- 10-11 KADETS-LIGHT WEIGHT
CHRISTIAN SIALANA-5TH PLACE- 12-13 KADETS-FIN WEIGHT video here
AISHA JONES & JAMAL JONES (see below)

Highlites:

Day 1:
Camy lost to Canada in Quarter finals only by one point. Canada won gold by beating everyone else by a huge margin.
Christian won his first 2 matches clearly and scored a few jump hook kicks in the process before losing by one point to California in Quarter finals – great performance Christian in your first national/international tournament.

Day 2: Miles rocked the house – He was on the foreign side of the bracket and took out the national team members from Tunesia, last years champion from Mexico and Canada in quarter finals. In Semi finals he lost to the champ Matt Kim from New York in Overtime and got Bronze. Jamal lost by one point to Nathanael(Silver medalist) and U’I lost by one point to 2010 National team member Jessie Bates.

Day 3: U’I lost to Puerto Rico in the Senior Bantam division.

This Year’s US Open in Las Vegas featured over 1600 athletes from 62 countries including 14 National Teams and several Olympic Medalists. The Us Open is for black belts only and is one of the highest-rated international open events in the world.