Jessica Goldman, 12, of West Windsor recently won two new world titles at the Songham Taekwondo World Championships in June in Little Rock Arkansas. She is the 2007 World Champion in Extreme Forms Division for Girls, Black Belts, ages 12 to 16, and in Extreme Weapons Division for Girls, Black Belts, ages 12 to 16. She also finished third in Traditional Forms, and fourth in Traditional Weapons world champion competitions. Last year she received the title of World Champion in the Traditional Weapons Division.
Goldman, who is a rising eighth grade student at Community Middle School, also studies gymnastics and tumbling at Motion Gymnastics in Pennington.##M:[more]##
A second degree Black Belt, Goldman has won 11 state champion titles for Forms, Weapons, and Sparring. She has been studying martial arts since 2001. Her instructors include Master Karla Capobianco at South Brunswick ATA Black Belt Academy in Monmouth Junction. Her extreme coach is Jeremy Epstein of Brooklyn, New York.
“Extreme Forms and Weapons Competitions judge competitors on a performance allowing contemporary martial arts techniques that have evolved over the last 30 years,” says her father Roy. “The performances are complimented by extreme gymnastic type moves such as back flips and aerials. Jessica’s weapons of choice are the double nunchackus.”
