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Master Sergio Corral

Rank
4th Dan

Year Started Training
1987

Owner / Instructor at
Corral Tang Soo Do

Trains Under
Grandmaster Chong Su Kim

Other Interests
N/A

 

Master Corral's first contact with the martial arts came as a result of his father, who enrolled him in Shotokan Karate when he was 4 or 5 years old. He continued study until 8 years old when his father died. Several martial disciplines followed such as Wu Shu, Tai Mantis, full contact, etc., but none managed to motivate him until he found Tang Soo Do in 1987 and began his career as a martial artist.

At that time he trained in the Union of Railroad Workers in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. His was the first student of his first instructor, Carlos Gonzalez Romero. In 1989 Master Corral also became the first student to have his own Tang Soo Do Club in the city of Chihuahua where he started his career as an instructor. He stated that "at first, it was not easy (and never has been), but the satisfaction of training different students and see their progress encouraged him to continue".

In 1990, he met for the first time, Grand Master Jae Chul Shin, President and Founder of the World Tang Soo Do Association, and received his Cho Dan from him in 1993. In 1995 he co-founded the Kyo Tang Soo Do Institute with Master Carlos Gonzalez in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico and received his 3rd Dan from the Mexican Association of Tang Soo Do in 1999. This rank was later accepted by the Pan-Am Tang Soo Do Federation through Grand Master Chong Su Kim (PIN. # 031 990).

Together with Professor Dr. Victor Manuel Urias Flying, he began a new facet in Tang Soo Do in Mexico in 2002 by restructuring the Shim Jin Kwan Tang Soo Do Mexico.

In January 2008, after being evaluated for four consecutive days at the Pan-Am Tang Soo Do Federation headquarters in Pennsylvania, he was awarded 4th Dan (PIN. # 031 970) by Grand Master Chong Su Kim and was also appointed the official representative in Mexico. In 2009 he organized Grand Master Kim's first visit to Mexico and is endorsed as his National Federation representative.

Through the years Master Corral has also attended clinics and seminars given by
Grand Master Jae Chul Shim, Grand Master HC Hwang, Grand Master Chong Su Kim and Master Larry Dercole.
 

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