Ceri was selected for the Junior ITF England squad and travelled to Spain with the team. She returned home with two Bronze medals from what was her first ever International Tournament
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to LEARN TKD's Ceri Green (Aldershot and Farnborough Class) Ceri was selected for the Junior ITF England squad and travelled to Spain with the team. She returned home with two Bronze medals from what was her first ever International Tournament |
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On Sunday 7th June 2009, the Learn-TKD Race For Life
team arrived at Stokes Park, Guilford to embark upon their challenge to
run 5 kms for Cancer Research in full doboks and pink belts (kindly made
by Lesley Haymes)
The event followed months of preparation by the
group and individuals who had practised running in their doboks during TKD
classes to get used to running in the full clobber and in the heat!
Ironically nothing could have prepared them for the weather on the day, as
after the (rather unusually uncoordinated) aerobic warm-up, the group were
drowned by a huge downpour and heavy HAIL!!!
Now equipped with soaking wet doboks which stuck
to their bodies, the team set out to the starting line, still carrying
their pink helium balloons and high spirits ready for the countdown.
To help the team on the day, they were joined by a
fabulous group of cheer-leaders Christine Davis, Maddy Ray (out due to
injury), Diana Wilson, Natalie Wilson (former Aldershot Learn-TKD
member) and her friend Sophie.
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Not only did they brave the weather to cheer the
team on and take photos, but Natalie and Sophie seemed to run even further
than the team themselves, repeatedly crossing the park (wearing their
Learn-TKD club hoodies and carrying pom-poms) to run alongside the runners
and spur them on!
The team which included Julia, Rebbecca, Leah, Jade,
Gail, Hills, Emma, Alex and Annabel all successfully completed the run and
were buzzing after the race! (Some of the doboks may still be soaking in
Vanish after the mud bath!)
To celebrate their achievements most of the group
then hit the Shepherd and Flock pub for drinks and snacks whilst donning
their race medals. The table was spilling with chips, crisps and peanuts
but more importantly with smiles!
A great event, so well done to all!
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| LEARN TKD ALDERSHOT successfully defended their title of South East Open Champions in March, although not having a full 20 person team, it was a very close call, with the title only being decided on the very last event of the day! Their DENHAM SCHOOL also enjoyed some success with 9 medals from a 15 person team |
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| A small team of LEARN TKD TAEKWON-DO students travelled to Sussex for the Impact Junior Coloured Belt Championships in February. |
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| Of the 16 strong team, 10 returned home with a 15 medal haul. Ceri Green was crowned "Top Banana", with 2 Gold and 1 Bronze |
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Twenty two members of LEARN TKD attended the Vision/ITF England Championships on 29th November, at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley. It was another successful day with the team returning home with yet another impressive haul of 25 medals. |
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| An excellent result particularly worthy of mention, was that of Ross Green, who won the Black Belt Sparring in his first competition as a Black Belt (promoted only 4 weeks previously), and also won a respectable Bronze for the Patterns event. | ||
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Seventeen members of LEARN TKD attended the Impact Junior Taekwon-Do Championships in Battersea on 8th November. Three from Denham and fourteen from Aldershot. The team returned home with an impressive 19 medal haul. "Top banana" being Surasi Jarukan (8th Kup) with 2 Gold's and a 1 Bronze medal. |
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| Of the three Denham members, only Rhianna Dowdeswell was successful in placing in the medals. Making up for her team mates misfortune, she returned home with three medals. 2 Silver's and 1 Bronze. | ||
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LEARN TKD recently ran its first Taekwon-Do class at the Alton Sports Centre. Two Instructors were present so that the beginners were able to get special attention. The class was well attended with half the class being made up of new members, with the rest, already having some Taekwon-Do experience. Considering it was the 5th November, it was a good turn out for the first session, with several others confirming they would along next week, as unfortunately, they were busy with Guy Fawkes celebrations and were unable to attend the first session. |
| Zip Wire Challenge. Members of LEARN TKD Denham and Aldershot completed a "Zip Wire Challenge" recently. The task was to hang off the edge of the roof of Basingstoke Hospital (6 stories high) and slide down to the ground on a wire. 6 members completed the challenge with the youngest being 12 and the oldest being 52. Collectively £1082.10 was raised for "Parity for Disability". | |||
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| Members of LEARN TKD’S Denham & Aldershot Schools attended the 2008 LTSI Invitational Championship on Sunday 28th September, and returned home with victorious. The competition kicked off with the under 13’s competing in Patterns and sparring. LTSI’s Hemel Hempstead A Team sat at the top of the leader board for most of the morning, with Denham managing to stay ahead of the Aldershot team. By lunch time, Hemel Hempstead had a very convincing lead, and it didn’t look like anyone would catch them. But after a short break for lunch, and the performance of the team Pattern event, it was the turn of the 13 year olds and over. | ||
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| Aldershot’s team consisted mainly of 13 year olds and over, and they piled on the pressure, with every single one of them finishing on the winners podium. In some events Aldershot won first, second and third place. At the end of the day Aldershot romped home with 50 points and the "Best School" trophy, with Hemel Hempstead in second place with 29 points. Denham (a much smaller School than their Instructors Aldershot one) managed a very respectable third place with 21 points. All in all a good day for LEARN TKD. Thanks to all the students who took part, the parents for giving up their Sunday to support the event, the officials for working all day, and LTSI for hosting the event. | ||
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Members of LEARN TKD Taekwon-Do attended the UKTA (United Kingdom Taekwon-Do Association) London Open Championships in July. With around 300 competitors in attendance, including the English and Welsh National Squads, they returned home victorious, winning the overall Champions shield. Only the second “non-UKTA” club to do so in the competitions twenty year history. Notable performances came from Denham’s Rhianna Dowdeswell, who won Gold in both her events, Patterns and Sparring, and 12 year old Ceri Green Winning Gold in her Sparring event and Silver in her Pattern event, her first competition since Grading to Black Belt back in March. |
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| LEARN TKD has been supporting this competition for about the last 3 years. It’s an excellent competition with good all round standards from both competitors and officials. The atmosphere is very friendly and competition hosts Dave and Jan Norris do an excellent job. Any one interested in competing next year can visit the competition website at www.londonopen.co.uk. | |
| Members of "LEARN TKD" put on an excellent display of Taekwon-Do over the bank holiday weekend at their Tilehouse School, Denham Green venue. Over a 40 minute period, six Black Belts demonstrated basic beginner syllabus, Coloured and Black Belt "patterns". Full contact kicking combinations on kick shields, Step-Sparring, Semi-Free and Free Sparring. The Free Sparring covered one versus one and two versus one, and also a competition bout. |  |
| The demonstration concluded, as is customary, with a display of "destruction". (The breaking of one inch thick pine boards, with bare hand and foot techniques). Denham Class member James Bradshaw (pictured) perform a "flying Side Kick Break" jumping through a hoop! | |
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LEARN TKD students, Craig King, Luke Warner and Catherine Norcliffe, returned home from Poland recently following their first ever International Taekwon-Do competition with the Junior ITF-England Squad. Although unsuccessful in placing in the medals for the individual events, the trio managed Bronze positions in their Team "destruction" events, as well as picking up some valuable experience for future International competition. Their next intended event will be the ITF World Cup on the 15t October this year. |
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| Over the 3 days, students received a detailed explanation of movements in colour belt & black belt patterns. The course also covered innovative warm up routines & stretching exercises, blocking & striking applications for one & two stop sparring & a wide range of self defence techniques including the use of leg sweeps | |
| Latest News: Congratulation to Aldershot and Farnborough TKD member Matthew Hills. Matthew (a keen gymnast) took time out from his Taekwon-Do recently to compete in the British "tumbling" Championships, returning home with a well deserved Bronze place medal in the 9 to 10 year old division. He has some video footage of his event on "You Tube". The link is... |
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| Latest News: Well done to LEARN TKD's "Denham TKD". A respectable overall 5th place (of 14 teams), at the 2008 South East Open Championships. A team largely made up of competition "first timers"! |
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| Latest News: Congratulations to LEARN TKD's "Aldershot TKD". Winners of the 2008 South East Open Championships. Unstoppable from the very first event of the day! |
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| Latest News: Instructor Mr Warner, completed his Tandem Skydive to raise much needed funds for the White Lodge Centre in Chertsey. Click here to read his report |
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J. Hulbert wins for 2007. |
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A member of the children's
class at Farnham (Berks). Attends class regularly, and extra sessions at
Denham too. Is always courteous and polite to everyone in class. Never has
to be told off for talking or messing around. Always learns his terminology
ahead of schedule and tries his best all of the time! Well done. |
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2007 success for R. Dowedswell |
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A member of the Denham Class.
Has maintained and improved on her Grading results since starting the class.
Attends class regularly, and has competed and attended Seminars since
joining too. Senior Belts take note; her Side Kick is better than most of yours too! Congraulations. |
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In an age where people appear
to think they are entitled to anything they desire, with little or no
effort, J Webster from the Aldershot/Farnborough class, refused to be
beaten and successfully won his 5th kup on his third attempt. Showing an
excellent example of the Taekwon-Do Tenet of "Perseverance". It was partly
for this reason, he was awarded the 2007 Student of the Year Award.
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Latest News: “First Partnership” a North Hampshire based company who organise educational programmes for young people, recently hired LEARN TKD’s Chief Instructor Paul Adams, IV Dan. The job was to give an introduction to Taekwon-Do as part of the “Class Act Engagement Programme”. A programme designed to help young people at risk of becoming disengaged from education, to think hard about their future and to develop the self-confidence they need to achieve their ambitions.
The Taekwon-Do proved very popular, with a high percentage of the group listing Taekwon-Do as the “best part” of the course, in their end of course reports!
Paul Adams was surprised to hear that everyone on the course
was generally lacking in confidence, and under
achieving at school as a result. Especially as it was evident there was a
wealth of untapped talent in the group.
Having
enjoyed teaching the group so much, he has offered the group a chance to
take part in a free four hour Saturday session in the New Year. Hoping to
lift their confidence higher and hopefully encouraging some of them to
consider taking up Taekwon-Do on a regular basis.
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Latest News: LEARN TKD sent 6 students to the ITF-England Championships at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley on the weekend of the 24th November. Coloured Belts Jennifer Norcliffe and Kieran Dunne came home with Bronze medals from the Patterns divisions. |
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| Whilst in the Black Belt Divisions, Catherine Norcliffe and Luke Warner obtained Silver in their respective Pattern divisions, with Craig King winning Gold in the sparring. Technically, this puts LEARN TKD's Black Belts up for possible selection for the squad that will represent England at the European Championships next year. |
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Meanwhile LEARN TKD's Samantha Taylor was in Cardiff on the same day for the UKTA's Open Championships. She came home with an impressive 2 Gold and 1 Silver in her respective Black Belt divisions. |
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| Latest News: LEARN TKD have recently been approached by the Instructor of "Farnham Taekwon-Do", Mr Richard Sharman, 2nd Dan, and have agreed to take over the running of his class, so that he can concentrate on his career. |
| The class will be handed over to LEARN TKD Instructors Luke Warner and Adrian Cush, with Chief Instructor Mr Paul Adams, 4th Dan, overseeing the class as a whole. LEARN TKD will be in complete control of the class by 1st January 2008. Anyone wishing to join the class may do so as of now. |
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Latest news: Over the weekend of 22nd Oct' members of "LEARN TKD" attended the 28th IIC in Belgium. The event was conducted by the ITF Technical Committee: Master Hector Marano (8th degree – Argentina), Master Pablo Trajtenberg (8th degree – Argentina) and Master Willem Jacob Bos (8th degree – Italy). The course included extensive practical training as well as in-depth theory from the three highly experienced Masters. |
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| With 9 other Masters also in attendance. Master Ellis of "ITF-England, also led part of the training, taking second degree black belts and below through hosin sul - self-defence. | |
| There were approximately 150 Black Belts from 19 countries in attendance for this seminar held in an excellent Sports facility. ITF England was the largest contingent, represented by over 40 participants. | |
| Latest news: Congratulations to Mr Adrian Cush, who was promoted to 1st Dan/1st Degree by Master Ellis, VIII Dan, on 30th September 2007. Mr Cush, a school teacher from the Woking area, will now join 3 other "LEARN TKD" Instructors in Belgium, for the "International Instructors Course, on the 19th, 20th and 21st of October. |
| Latest news: LEARN TKD Instructors Paul Adams and Luke Warner completed their "Zip Wire Challenge" on Saturday 15th September, at the 3peaks outdoor activity Centre. | ||||
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Latest news: On Friday 24th August Mr Needle, 2nd Dan and three friends took part in the Sucata Run. An annual banger rally that takes place over the August Bank Holiday. |
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| Sucata is the Portuguese word for “junk“ and that is exactly what it is about. The challenge is to find a banger worth a maximum of £250 (they bought their ‘classic’ Nissan Micra for a mere £150), decorate it in our team colours and then drive it across Europe. Click here for Simon's report |
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| Simon would like to thank everyone who supported the charity rally, the combined effort for all people taking part in the event, raised over £38,000 for Gemin-I Charity. | |
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Latest news: Members of LEARN TKD™ put in another good performance recently, attending the United Kingdom Taekwon-Do Association’s Open Championships, in Guildford, Surrey. The event gave host to competitors from all over the UK as well as a few from European Countries. LEARN TKD™ entered a twelve-person team of male, female and child competitors, and returned home with an incredible nineteen medal tally. Highlights of the day included Ceri Green, Ryan King, Liam Hawley and England Team member Samantha Taylor all winning Gold in their respective divisions for Sparring. Samantha also attained Gold position in the Ladies Black Belt “Destruction” techniques. Fellow club member Craig King, concluded the days events, winning Gold in the Junior Black Belt “Special Destruction” event. The team finished in second place overall, in a competition of some 300+ competitors. |
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| Members of LEARN TKD attended the "Taekwon-Do Explosion" Championships in Harrow, on 10th June. Aldershot and Farnborough with an 18 person team and Denham with a 5 person team. Learn TKD took the competition by storm, moving into first place on the leader board, after the very first event of the day, and never looking back. By the middle of the day, everyone realised no one was going to catch them as they dominated virtually every division they had people entered in. Notable performances included their Black Belts winning both the 1st Dan, and 2nd Dan and above “Pattern” events. Denham students Anu Dissanayake, Clare Coley and Mark Curry all winning Gold in their first ever competitions. Aldershot and Farnborough's Liam Hawley, “cleaned up” taking all three Gold positions in his events, whilst Aldershot and Farnborough's Matthew Hills, competing in his first competition, was very pleased to return home with three trophies, including 1st place for “flying side kick”. Collectively the 23 students returned home with a staggering 33 Trophies, as well as the overall Champions Trophy, a truly fantastic result. | ||
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| Well down to LEARN TKD’s Samantha Taylor, 1st Dan, who travelled down to Wales for the UKTA’s Open Championships. Samantha who is part of the “ITF-England Squad” returned home with three medals. Silver in the Sparring, Silver in the “Patterns” and Gold in the “Special Destruction” Technique. |
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| News: Learn TKD's Monday night session moved to it's new home at the Farnborough Leisure Centre on 2nd April and the class were thrilled to be joined by the current ITF European Heavyweight Champion Mr Zak Espi, II Dan and his training partner Mr Gary Smith, IV Dan. |
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| At the request of Senior Learn TKD Instructor Mr Adams, IV Dan, the two visitors took the class through an intense warm up and an exhausting 2 hour sparring session. Everyone present would once again like to thank the pair, especially as Mr Smith had travelled up from Brighton for the evening just to visit the class, and had to drive back the same evening. | |||
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News: Special thanks to "Master Murray" who paid LEARN TKD's Friday night class a special visit recently. Master Murray, a former Taekwon-Do and Judo exponent currently teaches self-defence and Kick Boxing classes in West London. LEARN TKD Instructor Mr Adams (who used to train with Mr Murray on occasion) had lost touch |
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News: Congratulations to "Learn TKD's" Samantha Taylor. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th March, Samantha returned to Scotland for the 2nd time in as many months to compete, this time in the UKTA's Scottish Open Championships. Samantha returned home with a Gold in the women's Black Belt Sparring and a Gold in the Special "Destruction" technique. |
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| News: Congratulations to Aldershot member Samantha Taylor. Samantha travelled to the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh over the weekend of the 24th/25th of February to compete in the ITF's Chang Ung Cup. There were competitiors from England, Scotland, Ireland, wales, Netherland, Italy, Greenland and the Czech Republic. Sam' took to the mat first thing to do patterns, where she won a silver medal, competing in the "destruction" special technique soon after where she won the bronze. Later in the day, despite being moved up to a heavier weight class she took Gold in the ladies sparring! |
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News: Congratulations to Aldershot and Farnborough members, Samantha Taylor, I Dan, and Craig King, II Dan. Both students were part of the "TKD Power" Team who attended the ITF-England Championships on the 2nd December. Craig King gained Bronze in the 2nd degree Patterns and Samantha Taylor won the "Special Technique" in the Destruction event. |
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News: In a quest to work with a credible ITF group in the UK that operates in a transparent, honest and professional way, LEARN TKD Taekwon-Do Schools have joined "TKDPower". TKD Power™ is keen to associate itself with professional instructors, such as Mr. Adams, who not only share in their desire to study, the genuine Taekwon-Do of General Choi Hong Hi. The venture will ensure LEARN TKD™ Taekwon-Do schools have access to some of the countries top ITF Instructors and Masters, and we look forward to an exiting Near Year! |
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News: Congratulations to Aldershot and Farnborough students Liam Hawley and Craig King. The only two of "learn-tkd.com" students to compete at the "National All Styles" Championships "3rd leg", at the K2 Leisure Centre Crawley, on Saturday 4th November. Once again both students placed 1st in their respective divisions in the points sparring. Black Belt Craig King fought three bouts winning 6-1, 5-1, and 6-0 to win his division. An excellent result also for his club mate Liam. Liam who is only a Yellow Belt (beginner) fought in his "open division" taking on all comers including Black Belts with far more experience, and for the second time this year was triumphant on winning Gold. |
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| Black Belt Grading 23rd/24th September 2006 | |
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Congratulations to Instructor Mr Adams, promoted to 4th Dan over the week end of the 23rd/24th September, at the STI Dojang in Leicester by Master Sahota, VII Dan. Also, two of his students Luke Warner and Alex Lane, were both promoted to 1st Dan Black Belt. Mr Adams scored the highest of the day with his own students not far behind him. Well done to all! |
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| UKTA Championships 16th July 2006 | |
| Congratulations to all the Aldershot students who entered the UKTA's London Open Championships. Twelve competitors from Aldershot took part (some gaining valuable experience in their first ever competition). Six Students returned with a total of seven medals! Once again thanks to the parents who take the time to support their children and enter them for these events. Well done to all the students who entered win or lose your efforts are appreciated! |
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| UKGT Championships 21st May 2006 | |
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Members of our Aldershot and Denham Taekwon-Do Schools enjoyed tremendous success at the UKGT's UK Championships. Seven of our members travelled to Derby on the 21st May. Despite fierce competition from all over the UK they managed an impressive medal tally of 3 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medals. Well done everyone who took part, and special thanks to the parents who gave up their Sunday to support the event, it was a fair trek! |
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UKGT Aldershot sent two competitors to the first "UK National All Styles" Championships in Guildford on the 7th May. Both competitors were the smallest in their divisions, (and almost the lowest grades). They competed with grades up to and including Black Belt against styles including Taekwon-Do, Tang Soo-Do, Kung-Fu, Karate, Kick Boxing and "Free-Style". Sherelyn Norcliffe won the "continuous sparring" in her division, and sister Catherine placed third in the points sparring. Well Done! |
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| UKGT Black Belt Grading, 22nd/23rd April 2006, result: | |
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Congratulations to Aldershot members Richard Hills and Craig King. Both students attended the Dan Grading in Dunstable on the 22nd/23rd April. After sitting a two written exams, one set by their own Instructor, and another set by UKGT, the two members performed Patterns, Sparring, Self-Defence and Destruction techniques and were rewarded with promotions to 2nd Degree. Well done! |
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| Click here for Black Belt Grading video "Destruction" April 2006 | |
| Click here for Black Belt Grading video "Sparring" April 2006 | |
| Click here for Black Belt Grading video "Foot Sparring" April 2006 | |
| Black Belt Grading, 26th March 2006, result: | |
| Congratulations to Denham member, Simon Needle who attended and passed his Grading under Master Oldham of UK-ITF, Simon is now promoted to 2nd Dan. |  |
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| Thomas Giles | 75% | 85% | P | II Dan | |
| James Bradshaw | 75% | 67% | P | I Dan | |
| Rehan Sondh | 74% | 87% | P | I Dan | |
| Sanjeet Sondh | 73% | 88% | P | I Dan | |
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| Master Sahota at Denham Taekwon-Do (Oct 27th) |
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Master Sahota, VII Dan, travelled to our
Denham School of Taekwon-Do this month, to conduct a Black Belt Grading for
our members. Later that evening, Master Sahota conducted a 2 hour Seminar
working on the basics of "ITF Patterns". The seminar was thoroughly enjoyed
by all who attended the class. A big thank you to Master Sahota for giving us his time! |
| GB-ITF Grand Master Choi Seminar Hailed as a tremendous success |
| Over 300
members congregated at the Parklands Leisure Centre, in Leicester, UK this
Saturday (26/09/2005, to participate at the Masterclass hosted by GBITF (INO#
148) and led by the President of the ITF, Grand Master Choi Jung Hwa. The class, organised by Master Sahota (UK) was also attended by the Senior Vice President of the ITF, Master Volmir Ligay (Russia), and GBITF Masters. Zuza, Harry and Woods. The session was opened by Mr. Clive Daffey (UK) who organised the line up and took the participants through gentle stretching exercises, before, Mr. Parm Rai (Canada), special assistant to President Choi, took over and led the participants through one of his legendary, and high intensity warm up routines. Suitably warmed, the class was led in the traditional fashion through fundamental exercises, and basic techniques by Mr. Rai, while President Choi, assisted by Master Sahota, observed, taking over at appropriate intervals to explain and correct individual participants wherever necessary. Gradually the class moved towards patterns. Again in traditional fashion, President Choi asked for individual participants to volunteer and demonstrate for the whole class, after which he invited comments from the group - importantly asking them to explain the good, as well as any aspect of the performance of individual techniques that needed adjustment and correcting. After a short (20 minutes only) break for lunch at 2pm, the class, directed by Mr. Rai, moved into a short session on physical fitness; strength and stamina, with Mr. Rai, assisted by Mr. Tajinder Sahota, demonstrating incredibly intense and challenging exercises, which included high speed up/down kicking routines, lunging and stretching, and abdominal workouts. With the participants suitably exhausted, the class returned once again to pattern work, and the members were able to ask the President for clarification on specific techniques and concepts as each pattern was performed movement by movement. The class ended well after the scheduled time. Not because the event had intentionally overrun, but because neither the participants, nor the instructors, had actually noticed that the time had actually passed by so quickly, such was the enjoyment and genuine engagement with the session that had transpired. The ITF has already received tremendous positive feedback from many of the 300 plus participants, in respect of the day's events. On behalf of President Choi, we would like to extend our gratitude to Master Sahota, and GBTIF, for their very kind invitation to Master Choi to present the Masterclass, and for the fantastic efforts of the members of GBITF for their excellent organisation and administration on the day. The ITF would also like to thank all participants for their continued support. President Choi looks forward very much to the next event at which he can see and meet them all again. |
| UKTA Open Championships 2005 | ||
| Congratulations to the 9 members of our schools who travelled to Reading for the UKTA's Open Championships on Sunday 24th July. An excellent result. 9 students, 10 medals! Well done. | ||
| 3 Gold | 3 Silver | 4 Bronze |
| Once again, special thanks to the parents who supported their children on the day. Some photos and hopefully a short video montage should be posted soon. | ||
| BUTF Coloured Belt Team Championships 2005 | |
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Congratulations to Aldershot Taekwon-Do who competed in the BUTF's Coloured Belt Team Championships in Bath on Saturday 2nd July. Despite being one person short in their team, and therefore having to forfeit one fight in every round they WON! Congratulations also to to the Denham "low Division" team who came a respectable 3rd place. Thanks once again to the parents who supported their children and took them to the event. |
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| BUTF Spring Championships 2005 |
| Congratulations to all the medal winners from Aldershot, Denham, Farnham and Woking Schools. Winners photos are now up on the website. Special thanks to the parents who delivered their children to the event and stayed for the long day to support them. A short video of some of the sparring can be viewed here. (Broadband recommended). |
| London Marathon 2005 | |
| Congratulations to Denham
Black Belt, Ricky Matharu. He ran the London Marathon to raise money for a
charity set up to help children born with very small, or no eyes at all. Well done Mr Matharu! |
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| Tsunami Charity "Kick-a-thons" (All money now received). |
| The "Kick-a-thons"
held during February at the Aldershot, Denham, Farnham and Woking Schools of
Taekwon-Do raised a total of
£4,992.15 for victims of the Asia Earthquake/Tsunami.
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| Black Belt Grading March 2005 | |
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to Matthew Stuart of the Denham School of Taekwon-Do. Matthew successfully passed the 2 day examination on the 27th Feb and the 5th March. He has been promoted to 1st Dan, 1st Degree, with a "merit" pass. He is the first of the Denham Schools under 16 year olds to reach the rank of Black Belt. Well done! |
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| Taekwon-Do Demonstration 19th Feb' 2005 |
| Taekwon-Do students will perform two demonstrations at Uxbridge library on Saturday 19th February. One at 11.15am and one at 2.45pm. Admission is FREE. |
| Tsunami Charity "Kick-a-thons" |
| Students from Aldershot, Denham Farnham and Woking Taekwon-Do Schools will perform charity "kick-a-thons" at their respective Dojangs over the month of February, to raise money for the victims of the Asia Tsunami. |
