Mark Lesly Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mark Lesly Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mark Lesly (April 19, 1959, in Manhattan, New York) appeared in the

credits of The Wanderers, and is recognized to this day for his role

as "Ducky Boy Number 2" because of his menacing demeanor, most notably

as he stands on the sidelines at the beginning of the climactic

football sequence. He later served on the Bernie Goetz jury and wrote

a book about it called Subway Gunman.Mark Lesly grew up in

Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where he discovered two important

passions of his life, Taekwondo and acting. While studying acting at

New York University, an open-casting call looking for short,

fair-haired, physically fit young men in their late teens or early 20s

aired on WNEW radio. He was immediately cast as a Ducky Boy and was

the focus of the most memorable of the gang's scenes.He apprenticed

with The Bond Street Theatre Coalition, then formed his own street

theater company, Questers & Jesters, with J. David Brimmer and Beverly

Branum, performed Shakespeare (Kings County Shakespeare Company,

Actors Classical Troupe), wrote, produced and acted in his own plays

(Clockworks Theatre) and paid his bills by becoming a Taekwondo

teacher.A student of the legendary Grand Master Dong Keun Park

(undefeated Korean Champion and Head Coach of the USA Olympic

Taekwondo Team at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992), he founded the NYU

Sport Taekwondo Club in 1987, and continues to serve as the team's

Head Coach. He is currently an 8th Dan Black Belt, certified by the

World Taekwondo Headquarters (Kukkiwon) in South Korea, and recently

received his 9th Dan from the Jidokwan, one of the original Kwans of

Taekwondo, which makes him officially a Grand Master in Taekwondo. GM

Lesly was the USA Taekwondo Forms Champion for 4th Degree Black Belts

and higher in 1996 after winning the Silver Medal in 1995. At

different times he has served as the Northeast Regional Director for

the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association, as Vice President of

the National Association of State Taekwondo Organizations and as Vice

President of the NJ State Taekwondo Association. He was a Member of

the Board of the East Coast Taekwondo Conference (formerly known as

the Ivy/Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League) from its founding in

1991 until he retired from the position in 2004. In 2016, GM Lesly was

selected to be the Chair for Maccabi USA Taekwondo, and his team won

five bronze medals in the 2017 World Maccabi Games held in Israel. In

2018 he became the Chairman of Jewish American Taekwondo, a 501(c)(3)

non-profit to raise funds to support Jewish athletes. He has trained

over one hundred students to the rank of Black Belt and beyond,

including Master Albert Lee (6th Dan), who coached the NYU Team for 8

years, and Master Andre Chi (5th Dan).
Mark Lesly Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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