Adult Taekwondo Instructors

Master Dan Chuang

Head Instructor

Master Chuang is one of the preeminent taekwondo coaches in the United States. He was appointed Head Coach of the USA National Taekwondo Poomsae Team in 2014 and continues to serve in that role. Chuang coached the USA National Poomsae Team at the World Poomsae Championships in Bali, Indonesia (2013), Aguascalientes, Mexico (2014), Lima, Peru (2016), and Taipei, Taiwan (2018), and has led Team USA to an historic third place finish in the world.

Master Chuang is a high level sparring coach as well. He was a sparring coach for Team USA at the World University Championships (2010, 2014) and World University Games (2009, 2015) and won Best Sparring Coach at the World Taekwondo G-1 Canada Open (2017), and continues to coach athletes at the national and international level.

Master Chuang has also coached the national champion Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sport Taekwondo team since 2000.

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Instructors

Master David Chan

Master (Dr.) David Chan, a 5th-degree black belt, has been teaching Adult L1/L2 classes since starting his Taekwondo journey in 1999 under Noel Bennett in Quincy, MA. He earned a spot on the 2014 US National Collegiate Taekwondo Team, represented the U.S. at the 2014 World University Taekwondo Championships in China, competed at the 2014 Pan American Poomsae Championships in Mexico (18-30 Individual and Mixed Pair), and won Gold with his wife, Master Carissa Fu, in the 31+ Mixed Pair at the 2020 Online Pan American Poomsae Championships.

Master Chan is both a mechanical engineer by training and earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Massachusetts General Hospital, and currently practices in that field. He brings a strong fundamental understanding of anatomy and physiology to his instruction.

Master Carissa Fu

Master Carissa Fu, a 5th-degree black belt, is one of the top USA competitors of her generation in both sparring and poomsae. She is a 6x National Poomsae Team member and 7x Collegiate National Team member. Her achievements include being the highest-ranked USA athlete in the -49kg Olympic weight class in 2018, winning gold at the World Taekwondo G-1 Costa Rica Open and G-1 Canada Open (where she earned the Best Sparring Athlete award), and earning a historic bronze medal in the 18-30 Individual division at the 2014 World Poomsae Championships—the first and only U.S. woman to do so. Currently, she is ranked #1 in the U.S. for 31-40 Female Poomsae.

Beyond competition, Master Fu serves as Chair of the USA Taekwondo Athlete Advisory Council, is on the Board of Directors, and co-chairs the Tournament Committee for the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC).

Master Tara Sarathi

Master Sarathi is currently a 5th Degree Black Belt who currently teaches adult L3 classes and has served as President of CW Taekwondo at Boston since 2017. Master Sarathi is a former president and captain of the national champion MIT Sport Taekwondo Club, and earned All-Star athlete honors in the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC) during that time.

Tara is the current Tournament Committee Chair of the USA National Collegiate Taekwondo Conference and has organized several National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships in that role. Tara also serves as the Tournament Committee Co-Chair of the ECTC. Tara thinks everyone is awesome.

Master Julie Nelson

Master Julie Nelson is a 4th degree black belt who currently teaches adult Taekwondo for Life, a class that she founded and coined the name for. After a checkered past in the martial arts, she found her home at CW Boston in the summer of 2004, and has been a wisecracking fixture there ever since. She has been in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, working as a software developer, and currently lives with her partner and family just south of Boston.

Master Kevin Lu

Master Kevin Lu is a 4th degree black belt who currently teaches adult black belt classes. He joined C.W. Taekwondo in 2012 and started teaching in 2017. Kevin also serves as the Treasurer for the club.

Kevin has represented the US Poomsae National Team in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2019, Kevin and his teammates, Andrew Hurd and Kevin Jiang earned Bronze for 18-30 Recognized Team Poomsae at the Wuxi 2019 World Taekwondo World Cup Poomsae Championships, and as part of the same team, earned Gold at the 2020 Online Pan American Poomsae Championships.

Master Chris Lo

Chris Lo is a 4th degree black belt who currently teaches adult beginner classes. Chris is a Massachusetts State champion, is a three-time quarterfinalist in -63kg at the USA Taekwondo National Championships, has competed at high level competitions like the US Open and World Taekwondo President's Cup. Chris began Taekwondo at the U. Mass. Taekwondo club and won gold medals in both red belt forms and red belt sparring at the 2012 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships at MIT.

Master Andrew Mandelbaum

Andrew Mandelbaum is a 4th degree black belt who currently teaches adult beginner classes.. Andrew started training in taekwondo as a student at Princeton University in 2008 under Master Rex Hatfield and tested for his 1st dan there in 2012. After coming to Boston later that year for graduate school, he began training at MIT and at CW Taekwondo, becoming an instructor in 2019.

Master Mike Harb

Mike Harb is a Kukkiwon-certified fifth degree black belt. He brings a wealth of competitive experience to the club as a former 6-time Australian National Team member, World Cup quarterfinalist and Olympic alternate for Taekwondo in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Gold Medal in Sparring (Masters Division) – US Open (Feb 2012) He is one of the coaches and team members of t.Bos, our competition group here at the dojang. Mike is also the head coach of the Tufts University Taekwondo program and sits on the Board of Directors for the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC).