About Us

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Founded in August of 2000, Pil Sung Taekwondo is an internationally recognized Taekwondo school based out of Guilderland NY. Pil Sung operates a full time location within Karner Plaza (10 New Karner Rd).  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 and strong future leaders.

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.

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.

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

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

Sean Heller

Rosanna Hsu

Mattthew Krieg

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Krista Seeberger

Tyler Seeberger

Lori Stewart

William Ting

3rd Degree Black Belt

Jade Altimari

Rose Altimari

Nina Beauchaine

Keira Cushing

Ian Fish

Kirk Fisher

Kiran Garcha

Ryan Greene

Jamari Harrell

Sean Heller

Rosanna Hsu

Jack Javoroski

Mark Krieg

Matthew Krieg

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Ethan Lawless

Benjamin Rounds

Namya Sharma

Brendan Tarantino

William Ting

2nd Degree Black Belt

Kazim Ali

Jade Altimari

Rose Altimari

Sivasubramanian Balamurugan

Nina Beauchaine

Keira Cushing

Matthew Drake

Emmelyn Freedman

Kirk Fisher

Marc Fuchs

Ryan Greene

Jamari Harrell

Sean Heller

Rosanna Hsu

Scott Ising

Dhev Jammula

Jack Javoroski

Tyler Javoroski

Jack Kenyon

Zinab Kitonyi

Mark Krieg

Matthew Krieg

Surya Krishnakumar

Christopher Lam

Jamie Lam

Dylan Lawless

Ethan Lawless

Antonio LoGiudice

Marco LoGiudice

Dominic Monaco

Paul Pennacchia

Pretesh Prakash

Kate Provencher

Benajamin Rounds

Robert Rudd

Xrysanthi Sokaris

Shashank Shamshabad

Hassain Shiju

Brendan Tarantino

Monique Ting

William Ting

John Wang

Austin Wolfgang

Ishika Yalamanchi

Shreyash Yalamanchi

1st Degree Black Belt

Abdulrahman Abdelnabi

Albaraa Abdelnabi

Khadejah Abdelnabi

Kazim Ali

Jade Altimari

Rose Altimari

Snigdha Arige

Evelyn Ayers

Aditya Aysola

Barry Bablin

Caroline Bablin

Rebecca Bablin

Siva Balamurugan

Bharath Balamurugan

Jensen Barlin-Romano

Jaiden Barlin Romano

Nina Beauchaine

Ethan Berbrick

Nikhil Bodduluri

Disha Bodduluri

Hannah Bowman

Michael Brooks

Matthew Brown

Tiffany Cavin

Damien Chan

Aaron Charles

Natalie Cheung

Samantha Chiaravalle

Billy Christopher

Jace Christopher

Bryan Chong

Bryce Chong

Lauren Conti

Keira Cushing

Jason Cryan

Benjamin Drake

Matthew Drake

Brendon Dong

Francisco Farrell

Clayton Freedman

Emmelyn Freedman 

Korbin Freedman

Kirk Fisher

Matthew Friello

Marc Fuchs

Kiran Garcha

Ryan Greene

Gregory Grimshaw

Jamari Harrell

Mia Hasan

Sean Heller

CJ Higgins

Michael Higgins

Maria Holmes

Rosanna Hsu

Scott Ising

Hunnan Jafri

Mahsum Jafri

Dhev Jammula

Jack Javoroski

Tyler Javoroski

Janeen Javoroski

Sathvika Jothivenketasan

Tess Kachadurian

Suraj Kadajji

Joseph Kenney

Trinity Kenney

Zinab Kitonyi 

Jack Kenyon

Mark Krieg

Matthew Krieg

Surya Krishnakumar

Connor Lassonde

Christpher Lam

Jamie Lam

Dylan Lawless

Ethan Lawless

Antonio LoGiudice

Marco LoGiudice

Shreya Mahesh

David Jesse Mathis

Ibrahim Mohammad

Dominic Monaco

Edgar Monroy 

Edgar Monroy Jr

Stephanie Monroy

Kumar Muthukumar

Rethwick Nagarajan

Shreyas Nampooothiri

An Nguyen

Dylan Nolan

Emily O'Hanlon

Gabriella O'Keefe

Riley O'Lena

Cydney Palmatier

Ethan Paro

Paul Pennacchia

Rithvikka Prakash

Pretesh Prakash

Kate Provencher

Ruby Ramasamy

Benjamin Rounds

Elijah Rowe

Zachary Rowe

Robert Rudd

Shiju Salahudeen

Darshana Saravanakumar

Nathan Scott

Shashank Shamshabad

Sidharth Shamshabad

Nitya Sharma

Harmaan Sidhu

Hassain Shiju

Hena Shiju

Adityamithran Sivakumar

Lorraine Streeter

Snehal Swain

Sonal Swain

Brendan Tarantino

Monique Ting

William Ting

Addison VanDerwiel

John Wang

Maxwell Wang

Samuel Wang

Michael Williams

William Witzleben

Austin Wolfgang

Hilary Worden