Black Belt 4th Degree / Master Instructor United States and Collegiate World Taekwondo Champion

 

Charles "Arnell" Smith, Jr. of Fort Washington, Maryland is a young man who is considered one of the best flyweight Taekwondo fighters in the nation and one of the top 10 in the world. He is a two-time World University Games Team Member and is an Olympic hopeful for 2012, and recently won the US National Championship in the Finweight class in Detroit, Michigan.

Born October 18, 1984, Olympic competition is not new to this vibrant young man, who began his Taekwondo training at the age of 9. By 17, Arnell was the No. 1 ranked Flyweight in the United States in the Junior Taekwondo Division. Arnell was invited to train and live at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, where he was accepted as a United States Olympic resident athlete. Here he prepared to compete for one of the two Olympic consolidated weight divisions available for the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece.

He is a four time United States National Champion, a United States Collegiate Champion, a two time United States Olympic Qualifier, a Pan-American Olympic Qualifier and a five time United States National Team member. Smith maintains a strict training regimen, working out two hours a day three days a week with Master Patrice Remarck and Master Sherman Spinks-Nelson. In addition to Arnell's personal achievements as an Olympic Taekwondo competitor, last year he opened his own business, Global Sport Taekwondo Academy, where he is now instructing young childen and adults ages 3 to 99 in the art of Taekwondo.

COMPETITION RECORD
2008 Pan American Championship Team Captain 2008 Pan American Championship Team Member 2008 U.S. Senior Nationals (Fin): GOLD 2008 Des Moines National Qualifier (Fin): BRONZE 2008 U.S. Open (Fin): SILVER
2007 World University Games Team Member 2007 World University Games Trials (Fly):1st
2005 U.S. Senior Nationals (Fly): BRONZE 2005 World University Games (Fly): BRONZE 2005 Collegiate Team Trials (Fly): GOLD 2005 National Collegiate Championships (Fly): GOLD 2005 National Qualifier (Fly): GOLD
2004 Pan American Olympic Qualifier: 4th 2004 Pan American Team Member 2004 Pan American Qualifier #2 (Olympic Fly): GOLD 2004 World Olympic Qualifier: 2nd Round 2004 World Olympic Qualifier Team Member 2004 U.S. Olympic Qualifier #1 (Olympic Fly): GOLD 2004 World Taekwondo Championship: 3rd Round 2004 National Team Member 2004 National Team Trials (Fin): GOLD
2003 Senior National Championships (Fin): GOLD 2003 Titan Games Team Member (Olympic Fly)
2002 Korean Open Team Member 2002 Junior Nationals (17-18 yrs.): GOLD
2001 Junior National Team Member 2001 Junior National Championships: GOLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

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