About Us

Pil Sung Taekwondo

Founded in August of 2000, Pil Sung Taekwondo is an internationally recognized Taekwondo school based out of Upstate NY with locations in Guilderland and Loudonville, NY. The core curriculum is designed to build a strong mental and physical understanding of the Korean martial art, while instilling the five tenets of Taekwondo in everyone who steps into our dojang. Since 2000, Pil Sung Taekwondo has developed black belts, state champions, national champions, national team members and strong future leaders.

Master Hasan

Founder and head instructor Joe Hasan brings over 30 years martial arts experience to Pil Sung Taekwondo.

Mr. Hasan began his martial arts training around four years old. His initial training was studying the Indonesian Art of Penjak Silat under his father, the late Jusuf Hasan. In 1986, Master Hasan began his Taekwondo training under Master Michael D Friello, followed by years under Grandmaster Les Zampino.

Competitively, Mr. Hasan was very active and successful from 1987 through 2004, competing in numerous local, state, national, and international competitions. In 1992, Mr. Hasan took his first referee certification course in order to become more knowledgeable in the rules he was competing under. Between 1998 and 2004, Mr. Hasan split his time between competing and officiating; however, since 2004 Mr. Hasan has shifted his focus to officiating and directing tournaments as a way to give back to the future of Taekwondo.

Outside of the martial arts world, Mr. Hasan earned a BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in management with a concentration in information systems (2002). Prior to pursuing a full time career in Taekwondo, Mr. Hasan worked as a business analyst, technical analyst, and as a product manager both in the private software industry as well as in the state government.

Presently, Mr. Hasan is a 8th dan (as of 2/2020) and can be found in the school nearly every day of the week working with students and instructors to take their training to the next level.

Black Belt Listing

Below is a listing of all certified black belts that have completed their promotion test through Pil Sung Taekwondo

8th Degree Black Belt

Grandmaster Joe Hasan

6th Degree Black Belt

Nina Beauchaine

5th Degree Black Belt

Nina Beauchaine

Andy Bloch

Samuel Chiappone

Sean Heller

Christopher Lam

Matthew Krieg

Lori Stewart

4th Degree Black Belt

Kazim Ali

Nina Beauchaine

Samuel Chiappone

Keira Cushing

Kirk Fisher

Ryan Greene

Jamari Harrell

Sean Heller

Rosanna Hsu

Matthew Krieg

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Krista Seeberger

Tyler Seeberger

Namya Sharma

3rd Degree Black Belt

Kazim Ali

Rosanna Altimari

Nina Beauchaine

Keira Cushing

Ian Fish

Kirk Fisher

Kiran Garcha

Logan Gibbins

Ryan Greene

Gregory Grimshaw

Jamari Harrell

Sean Heller

Rosanna Hsu

Jack Javoroski

Mark Krieg

Matthew Krieg

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Ethan Lawless

Antonio Logiudice

Marco Logiudice

Dominic Alexander Monaco

Wyatt Moss

Rethwick Nagarajan

Ethan Paro

Pratham Prasad

Cleef Robinson

Benjamin Rounds

Elijah Rowe

Robert Rudd

Darshana Saravanakumar

Namya Sharma

Xrysanthi Sokaris

Brendan Tarantino

Monique Ting

William Ting

Addison Vanderwiel

John Wang

Shreyash Yalamanchi

Ishika Yalamanchi

2nd Degree Black Belt

Kazim Ali

Ramachandra Arkalgud

Sivasubramanian Balamurugan

Nina Beauchaine

Vincent Chen

Keira Cushing

Matthew Drake

Kirk Fisher

Caden Flewelling

Emmelyn Freedman

Dr. Marc D Fuchs

Varun Ganeshkumar

Gregory Grimshaw

Caelyn Hanna

Cameron Hanna

Jamari Harrell

Mia Hasan

Joey Hasan III

Sean Heller

Alex Holowoka

Rosanna Hsu

Scott Ising

Krishnadhev Jammula

Tyler Javoroski

Jack Javoroski

Tess Kachadurian

Anish Kandukuri

Zinab Kitonyi

Matthew Krieg

Mark Krieg

Surya Krishnakumar

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Dylan Lawless

Ethan Lawless

Antonio LoGiudice

Marco LoGiudice

Jack Maguire

Clemence Mignot

Mannat Mishra

Dominic Alexander Monaco

Stephanie Monroy

Rethwick Nagarajan

Ethan Paro

Paul Pennacchia

Pretesh Prakash

Pratham Prasad

Aarya Prasad

Katheryn Provencher

Isaac Rotter

Leiam Rotter

Benjamin Rounds

Elijah Rowe

Zachary Rowe

Ishanvi Roy

Zane Salem

Darshana Saravanakumar

Shayaan Shams

Shashank Shamshabad

Nitya Sharma

Harmaan Sidhu

Ranveer Sidhu

Adityamithran Sivakumar

Xrysanthi Sokaris

Lukianos Sokaris

Victor Sougrakpam

Bren Tarantino

Addison VanDerwiel

John Wang

Austin Wolfgang

Shreyash Yalamanchi

Madison Zorda

1st Degree Black Belt

Albaraa Abdelnabi

Aditri Arya

Barry Bablin

Caroline Bablin

Rebecca Bablin

Nina Beauchaine

Ethan Berbrick

Disha Bodduluri

Nikhil Bodduluri

Hannah Bowman

Stone Brennan

Michael Brooks

Matthew Brown

Tiffany Cavin

Damien Chan

Natalia Cheung

Myra Chhibber

Samantha Chiaravalle

Bryan Chong

Bryce Chong

Jason Cryan

Keira Cushing

Hriaan Desai

Brendon Dong

Lorraine Donovan

Matthew Drake

Benjamin Drake

Clayton Freedman

Emmelyn Freedman

Matthew Friello

Dr. Marc D Fuchs

Noah Gieault

Ryan Greene

Jacob Guillaume

Cameron Hanna

Corey Hanna

Jamari Harrell

Mia Hasan

Joey Hasan III

Sean Heller

Christopher Higgins

Michael Higgins

Rosanna Hsu

Carina Hu

Scott Ising

Mahsum Jafri

Krishnadhev Jammula

Tyler Javoroski

Jack Javoroski

Sathvika Jothivenketasan

Suraj Kadajji

Anish Kandukuri

Harshith Kaparthi

Trinity Kenney

Joseph Kenney

Jack Kenyon

Matthew Krieg

Mark Krieg

Surya Krishnakumar

Zachary Krone

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Abigayle Lange

Connor Lassonde

Dylan Lawless

Ethan Lawless

Jack Maguire

Shreya Mahesh

David Jesse Mathis

Julia McDonnell

Jasmine Mishra

Rajiv Mishra

Ibrahim Mohammad

Stephanie Monroy

Edgar Montroy, Jr

Breeanna Moss

Kumar Muthukumar

Shreyas Nampoothiri

An Nguyen

Emily O'Hanlon

Cydney Palmatier

Anjan Parani

Paul Pennacchia

Rithvikka Prakash

Aarya Prasad

Aanya Prasad

Pratham Prasad

Katheryn Provencher

Ruby Ramasamy

Nikash Ravi

Vihaan Rayavaram

Daniel Rotter

Leiam Rotter

Isaac Rotter

Benjamin Rounds

Elijah Rowe

Zachary Rowe

Ishanvi Roy

Anna Russell

Naimish Sah

Shiju Salahudeen

Zane Salem

Darshana Saravanakumar

Nathan Scott

Shayaan Shams

Shashank Shamshabad

Sidharth Shamshabad

Nitya Sharma

Hena Shiju

Hassain Shiju

Aarav Shinde

Anushka Shrestha

Ranveer Sidhu

Harmaan Sidhu

Adityamithran Sivakumar

Adhiraa Sivakumar

Xrysanthi Sokaris

Lukianos Sokaris

Victor Sougrakpam

Shrejal Srivastav

Sonal Swain

Snehal Swain

Nalin Tamilmani

Brendan Tarantino

Samuel Townsend

Alma Townsend

Samuel Townsend

Alma Townsend

Lucas Tresansky

Addison VanDerwiel

Anderson Vanderwiel

Ved Vyas

Samuel Wang

Maxwell Wang

John Wang

Michael Williams

William Witzleben

Austin Wolfgang

Hilary Worden

Emma Zhang

Madison Zorda