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MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times.
Fourth grader Beren Schmidt, right, an advanced student with a blackbelt, helps six-year-old Aidan Rotondo of Beverly learn a self-defence move during a beginning taekwondo class after school Friday at Manchester Memorial Elementary School. Classes in the traditional Korean martial art are sponsored year-round by the Manchester Parks and Recreation Department and are taught by Manchester resident Brian Malik, a master instructor with the International Tae Kwon Do Academy in Marblehead.

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