Two brothers from the Phillipines, Jefferson and James Louie Callino, both win Kyorugi (sparring) and bronze in poomsae(form), at the 7th World Taekwondo Culture Expo Championship in South Korea.
Their father Dr. Jefferson Callino bet them if they won the event he would buy them each a new car.
Jefferson, the eldest of the two brothers and a student of criminology at the University of Cebo, didn’t really care much for taekwondo when he began at age 12. He loved basketball, and was scared of getting hit. His friends encouraged him to take the sport seriously.
Younger brother James Louie on the other hand fell in love with taekwondo the moment his father introduced the two to the sport when James was 8 years old.
The boys got picked up on the teamby Tony Del Prado, the regional chairman of of the Philippine Taekwondo Association. They had to sacrifice much to train with the team. They spent several weeks in South Korea just training for that event and learned much about the culture.
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