But, on that bright sunning day in August, as we were leaving, Mr. Johnson saw a couple of his students pass by as we were leaving, and he felt they would report back to Mrs. Crecelius, I had my photo taken with the Howton Ladies next to Stellions/library and they uploaded that picture to their Facebook page. As most know, Tooter was the “den mother” for MCTKD and did the majority of the legwork outside of the teaching within the school. Mya (her daughter) did a fair share of instruction even though she was young. Mr. Johnson provided her with an “Assistant Instructor” certification back in April 2022. The other two who had the same qualification from him were Elizabeth and Onalee Kidd.

Within minutes of that photo being uploaded, I got the below Facebook message from Mr. Crecelius. He clearly was worried as to why I was in Central City. He knew that with all the other schools leaving, Mr. Johnson was likely next. You can see the text for yourself. The odd thing is, two hours after that communication, he

unfriended me and then blocked me. A very odd move when you consider the conversation. Several within the TTCA camp feel that t

he message from Tom Crecelius was actually from Katie Crecelius. She blocked my personal page to see the TTCA page later.

Also, below please see the Facebook post in the  MCTKD chat from Mrs. Onalee Kidd.  This was on  9/6/2023! This proves that on their end, there wasn’t a plan, and the plan they made up was to pull someone who hadn’t been in place in over a decade. You will see that Mrs. Kidd refers to the association several times within her message. Mr. Johnson was loyal to GM Choi, Yong-sik, and GM Choi sold the TTCA to Mr. and Mrs. Crecelius. The TTCA owns all that is MCTKD. Mr. Edwards is only a partner and would be tossed to the side by the TTCA if he doesn’t follow their mandates. This is substantiated by communications from within the TTCA and from family members.

 

Now, let us discuss the issues of 15 March 2025. This was the day of the 80th TTCA Tae Kwon Do Tournament held at the Central City Convention Center. First, look at the use of the term “80th” in their title. They have generally held two tournaments a year, but didn’t always, but if they did, the most they could be at is “58th” as the TTCA is only 29 years old. It was formed in 1996. They are already implying their organization has history, longevity, but since GM Choi sold the TTCA to the Cresulis, the timeline should start in 2022. The TTCA and MCTKD under Mr. Edwards have similar timeline issues it seems. Just like the MCTKD, since their head instructor passed, and they brought in an outside instructor, it is no longer Mr. Johnson’s MCTKD, it should be Mr. Edwards ‘; however, it’s not even his, as it’s clear that TTCA is in charge. And also based on what Mrs. Cresulis said and did at this particular tournament!

As soon as the tournament was announced, we posted our public support for a tournament that we knew we would not be invited to compete in. Many of us even responded to the Facebook event, saying were were attending. And that’s ok, the TTCA has always been a bit “xenophobic” in who they have in their tournaments. Nothing wrong with that, especially if you are a large and well-spread-out organization. The ATA Martial Arts (formally the American Taekwondo Assoc.) had closed tournaments, but at their height, they had over 900 dojangs and 300,000 members! They had huge tournaments and you never fought the same person

all the times past the local or regional tournaments. With the TTCA, you were ALWAYS competing against the same set, it’s one reason my oldest son didn’t like competing in their tournaments more than the two times he fought the same black belt guys.

So, for several months, we posted that we would be cheering all martial artists, but especially those of the MCTKD, as we truly consider them our brothers and sisters in the martial arts. I hold no animosity towards Mr. Edwards, their head instructor, and especially none towards MCTKD students. its why I, along with my whole school, felt it was important to go and support them.

And we had no indication we wouldn’t be allowed to cheer on our local brothers and sisters as our posts were public, and we tagged MCTKD on their Facebook page. Mr. Edwards, Mr. Spicer, and everyone involved in the running of MCTKD has my contact information. They didn’t post on their page anything indicating we wouldn’t be allowed as the general public to support them. We know they are struggling with low membership, and the tournament would likely be attended fairly poorly due to the fact there are only two TTCA schools and two TTCA clubs, and those clubs don’t seem to have many, if any, students.

However, our first indication didn’t come from Mr. Edwards, who was stated as being in charge of this tournament, but from Mrs. Crecelius on their TTCA Facebook page on 10 March 2025 at 1:28 PM when she posted this:

The wording Mrs. Crecelius uses, “We will have people posted at the doors to maintain safety for our competitors and attendees” was a bit odd, as we thought, that’s weird to say, but, its fits her modi operandi as she said in a text sent above she claimed that one of the groups who left were going to show up and “They have threated to all show up at our tournament wearing their shirts to fill the stands in retribution.” And the Master of that school has stated that is false. Our posts are still public, and you can see we made nothing like any threat whatsoever. We posted that we would support any and every martial arts event. Another curious thing happened: a couple of our parents and my own personal Facebook page were then blocked by Mrs. Crecelius at about 2 pm on March 10, 2025 from seeing the TTCA Facebook page, but since we have systems in place, it doesn’t block us, but got the notification of the block. Below is the update to the above text at 4:11 pm that same day. Mrs. Crecelius changed some of the wording because it was threatening and ominous.

Mrs. Crecelius dropped the “We will have people posted at the doors to maintain safety for our competitors and attendees” line just a few hours after posting the original.

Our posts show we were not planning any type of disturbance but support for our “sister schools“. Below a public and still available for review statements about supporting MCTKD and, by default, TTCA.

The day of the tournament came, and I had those who wanted to go watch this tournament to meet up our our school. 13 of my students and their families drove to the tournament. We came in, and we all stood at the top deck, behind the crowd, as we didn’t wish to draw attention to ourselves, our purpose was to support the students of MCTKD and for those students of mine who hadn’t seen a tournament, for them to get an idea as to how one works. We arrived at 1130, and we were sitting and standing in that back top row enjoying seeing some of our local and not-so-local martial artists compete. We were discussing how this was and was not going to be like some of our upcoming tournaments when Miss Elizabeth Kidd, daughter of  Mrs. Onoalee Kidd, both adult 3rd degrees at MCTKD, approached Mrs. Crecelius’s ring to tell her we were there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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