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16 Local Residents Earn Black Belts
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things with Their Lives!

Auburn, February 28, 2009 – Six students earned the most coveted rank in karate, the Black Belt, at McCoy’s Action Karate this last weekend.  

Sean Smith (Auburn), Marnae Evans, Keenan Mahan, Kennedy Evans, Ryan Mahan, Zachary Sharron, Peter Boyd (Charlton), Caroline Bercier, Meredith Bercier, Bryan Erickson (Oxford), Lillyanna Peniza (Leicester), Zackary Fitzgibbon (Sturbridge), Tyler Leveille (Southbridge), Robert Stetson (North Brookfield), Chase Flibbert (Dudley) and Cameron Hooper (Thompson CT), excelled through 15 plus hours of testing over 4 weeks, including running, sparing (a controlled form of fighting with protective gear), bag work, sit-ups, push-ups, forms (a pattern of fixed self defense moves choreographed), Self Defense, breaking, a written and an oral test.

The physical and mental requirement of the Black Belt test are designed to put them in the top 10% of the nation physically while at the same time testing the courage, compassion.  When asked what the hardest part of the testing process was, “The Physical Test, defiantly the physical test,” replied Lillyanna Peniza of Leicester MA.

“We take family goals very seriously here,” said Paul McCoy, one of the Master Instructors and McCoy’s Action Karate. You can tell from the large number of names that are the same on this testing list. When asked what the  most memorable part of her journey to Black Belt was, Marnae Evans, a mother of 6 living in Auburn said, “They way that the staff and students accepted my family.” 

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Photographs of the Fifth Phase of the Black Belt Test at 
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February 28, 2009 - New Black Belts with Master's McCoy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master's Paul and Anne McCoy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cameron Hooper & Master McCoy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cameron Hooper, Chase Flibbert & Master Mccoy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking - Chase Flibbert, Holding Black
Belt Dan Morin - Oxford, watching
Sr. Instructor Steve MacGregor Oxford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caroline Bercier (Oxford) Sparring
Brian Erickson, (Oxford)

 
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