Over 40 women signed-up and came out to the four evening sessions for Korean women and the one session open to foreigner-women. Although only originally asked to do two-and-a-half-hour sessions, 한지연 went one, one and a half, and two hours overtime each day. The women brought a great desire to learn and improve and 한지연 fed off of that which led to the extensions in time.
Special thanks to Tim Hornbrook, Elizabeth Holbrook, Sarah Jo Turrittin, E’vone Starks, Liz Church, Dan Quick, and Troy MacLellan for helping out and allowing 한지연 to give more personal attention to the participants. 한지연 ‘s own dedication to the event is even more remarkable when you factor in that she was doing it all for free and didn't take all that much convincing to come down to Jeju in the first place.
We had met in early June and over ice cream at a Baskin Robbins in 홍대 (Hong Dae) we went through the details, motive, and importance of offering an event of this nature and of having a professional (and even someone/some celebrity on board). Within a couple hours we had a an agreement worked out; a clinic in the evenings during the week and one Saturday session, then capped-off with a tournament on a Sunday…