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Team Tournament Training
(Next Training Date)
Bradley Stoke Festival -
Write Up & Photos
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Please note that the date for the next Umpires Part 2 course has changed from September 21st to October 4th.
On the subject of courses, all 1st Dans please take note - if you ever want to grade again you need to take the umpires course! Please note that you need to have the completed course application form returned to me with the fee at least three weeks before the course to ensure your place.
Listed below are the names of those whose licences expire at the end of June; please see Mr Martin for a renewal form, renewal costs £32, cheques made payable to 'Bristol TaeKwon-Do Schools' please. Please ensure your completed form and the money is with us before the end of the month or you will be hit by a late fine of £5, making a total of £37 - this fine is levied by the TAGB, not me!!
Bristol South
(Whitchurch): Jade Clatworthy, Joseph Pearce-Lyons.
Bristol South (Southville): Ben Collins-Bishop, George Lopresti, Dave
Malpass, Jordan Russell, Filip Taylor.
Bristol North (Bradley Stoke): Jitesh Chauhan, Kerry Phillips.
EuroDisney Children's Tournament
Saturday 27th September, Disneyland resort, Paris.
TAGB bring you the first ever Junior TaeKwon-Do Tournament held in the heart of Disneyland Paris and guaranteed to be a magical event across a memorable weekend. This will be a unique event in so many ways as we are welcoming Europe’s youth and providing the opportunity to compete in an international tournament at the fantastic Disneyland resort Paris.
This tournament will be held in the amazing Times Square Conference Centre in the heart of the spectacular Hotel New York, itself situated in the centre of the wonderful Disneyland resort Paris. Also unique, will be the exclusive Disney medals and certificates, awards that will become treasured keepsakes. This fantastic weekend really does offer the best of both worlds as our young competitors can compete against their international counterparts on the Saturday and then enjoy all the magic of Disneyland Paris resort, Europe’s number one attraction with its mix of heart-stopping thrills and fairy-tale magic, with their families on the Sunday.
All details and entry forms are now available on the TAGB website. CLOSING DATE FOR THIS EVENT: 1st August 2008. DON’T MISS IT!!!!
If we don’t get enough support from the TAGB students, then we will have to open up the event to BTC Schools & Associations.
From January next year the TAGB are increasing the cost of coloured belt gradings from £23 to £25, and the cost of the annual TAGB licence will rise from £32 to £34.
Our clubs only had a handful of entrants for
this years English Championships, held at
the Nottingham Arena on Sunday March 30th,
which is a shame because I keep telling you
guys how GOOD you are! This years entrants
however, proved my point, the five
(yes, five!) entrants returned with no less
than five trophies between them! SEE, I TOLD
YOU LOT YOU WERE GOOD, NOW DO YOU BELIEVE
ME??!!!
This result is particularly impressive considering that the five that went would not be considered as 'tournament fighters'. These are five normal people, average members of our clubs, except above average in that they made the effort and were brave enough to travel to Nottingham and step up to the line.
Phil Tanner from the Southville club achieved bronze in
yellow belt cadet sparring, Simon Hart from Bradley
Stoke club won gold in green belt heavyweight cadet
sparring and a bronze in patterns, his Dad Adrian won
silver in green belt executive male sparring
(old bugger!) which should be an inspiration to all of
us, and finally Mrs Pam (I'm not very good at TaeKwon-Do
am I) Dulay got gold at executive ladies blue belt
heavyweight (?!) sparring. The last competitor,
Kat Hart unfortunately did not get anything this time,
however she showed great warrior spirit in entering blue
belt heavyweight ladies at a national level for the
first time, where the opponents are large and the
contact can be quite heavy, so well done to you too Kat
- particularly for remaining cheerful in the face of the
rest of her family coming home with trophies!
TAGB WORLD BEATERS!
The TAGB squad recently became 'World All Styles Combat Organisation' World Champions in Italy over 3 days of fierce competition which saw the TAGB team scoop the 1st place cash price of $5,000, beating Russia into second place and host nation Italy 3rd, followed by Greece and then Latvia as the top 5 countries. The following people took a DOUBLE GOLD, winning the point stop and continuous sparring: Joe Schembri, Warren Vice, Gordon Fearn, Tamsen Clarke, Clare Sharples.
Once again our TAGB team did us proud and were the outstanding team at these championships both in technique, appearance and discipline. Well done to them all and due to their outstanding performance they were invited on an all expenses paid trip to compete in Iran, a trip to British Columbia, Canada and trips to Russia and Uzbekistan.
Tae Kwon Do International European Championships. These championships were held in the republic of Ireland in April 2008. Congratulations to the TAGB England team who took gold in the mens team event and the TAGB Wales ladies who took gold in the ladies team event.
Silver Jubilee Celebrations for the TAGB. This years British Championships are taking place in our silver jubilee year, so the TAGB will make this a special championships and we are resurrecting the black belt area team championships for this special event. See section above for team training sessions! There will be a special commemorative medal cast for this event.
TAGB Team visit Northern Cyprus. On the weekend of October 26/27/28th the TAGB National Team will be competing in an international event in Northern Cyprus. We will let you know how they get on.
Tae Kwon Do International World Championships 2009. Due to the overwhelming success of the last world championships at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, the TAGB have been asked by our overseas friends to host the next TKDI World Championships in the summer of 2009 in the UK. There is now a double DVD of the best of this years World Championships (4 hours of top entertainment!) available. See Mr Martin if you want to get your paws on one.
The Southern Championships were held at the Torbay Leisure Centre in Paignton on Sunday 25th November 2007. A coach was laid on which most of our participants took advantage of, I'm told of the party atmosphere in the coach on the way back! It was a very successful day with more of our competitors getting medals than not, and even some of the ones that did not achieved huge personal success - for instance Mandy Rossiter acquitting herself very well against an experienced and successful tournament fighter from Bristol Academy, Junho Scott giving his opponent a very tough fight, not knowing he was the current world champion, and both Jo Lougheed and Dillon Berry's awesome breaks in the destruction event; Jo breaking two boards for the first time ever with an elbow strike and Dillon breaking three boards with a reverse side kick. Somebody got the gold for hand destruction as well, can't think who...
As many people got medals on the day, and I am proud of everybody for their performance and bravery, I will mention the gold medalists: Isaac Webb pleased me getting gold, Phil Tanner and Elisha Bogle both got gold in their first tournament beating yellow belt green stripe 7th kup opponents, these are obviously two names to watch for the future. Gianni Arancio getting gold and Rich Lang getting silver for the red belt male patterns was awesome, perhaps more of you should enter patterns, at least at local level. Congratulations also to the two ladies tag teams - Beckie Hodge and Anisha Dulay came away with Gold and Kate Millard, Pam Dulay and Katrina Hart came away with Silver.
I thought Aaron O'Callaghan's fight was awesome, he will be somebody to watch for the future (as long as he continues to take his training as seriously as he does now). The man of the match for me was Jason Everton getting gold at Black Belt men's sparring, this man could fight his way onto the England team. I was especially pleased that all three of the Dulay family came home with medals and their spirits high - a good start to their tournament career. I was totally proud of everybody and am planning to lay a coach on again in February to the next West of England championships in Salisbury.
Click here to see the full photo album.
See what Britain's premier martial arts magazine has to say - interview with Mr Martin from December 2001's issue of Combat magazine
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Bradley Stoke Festival - Write Up
Saturday 7th June saw another of our annual demonstrations at the Bradley Stoke Festival. We were again very lucky with the weather, though thankfully it wasn't as hot as last year! Thanks to Adrian Hart for wrestling with the gazebo for us!
After a very spectacular (some would say completely crazy) display from a stunt motorcycle team had left several areas of the arena smouldering, we entered to face an even larger crowd than last year. We started with some quick warm up kicking then a few patterns, then straight into some one for one/two for two non contact (!) sparring, followed by some strenuous pad work. We've not used pads at a demo before, but I think it looked good and we'll probably use it again.
Then a few brave students went on to break some pretty impressively thick boards (I think they get thicker every time I buy them!) - some from students who had never even tried it before. Myself and Steve Schwartz then demonstrated some slow and fast one step sparring. This was swiftly followed by several bouts of sparring. We were to finish with a couple more patterns but yet again our time was cut short by an over zealous announcer ushering us off the arena (a little before our time in my opinion!)
After the demo we still had a large pile of unbroken wood, so we had an informal destruction seminar. Everybody broke, no-one was hurt, and I have a large pile of firewood to get me through next winter! Everyone was particularly blown away by Craig Noble: he asked if he could try breaking with a side kick, I asked if he would use his front leg and be prepared to jump? To his surprise, I got four volunteers to lie on the ground and suggested he jump over them and break... without batting an eyelid, he just did it! We then lay down six people.. and he did that as well! The photos are on the album. His nickname was 'Sonic', it is now 'Super Sonic'.
A big thank you to those who came along to take part, especially those who came up from the South Bristol clubs. There have been quite a few pictures posted on facebook (thanks to the Braid family) and of course you can see our pictures in the Photo Album. If anyone wants any high res copies, please email me.
Team Tournament Training
2008 is the TAGB’s Silver Jubilee year (25 years!) and to celebrate we are re-instating the area team championships at this year’s British Championships to be held on October 12th in Nottingham.
We are currently looking to select the finest students to represent the West of England; there will be teams for MEN, LADIES, BOYS and GIRLS.
There are special TEAM TOURNAMENT TRAINING sessions being held at the Bristol Academy – these sessions will not only improve your sparring skills and fitness, but you may end up being picked to represent YOUR AREA!
Next session is on
Saturday 12th July at the
Bristol Academy,
time is 10.00am to 12.00 noon. The
cost is £3 per student and it is open to
all red and black belts, young and old
alike. No need to book, just turn up in
white suits, with sparring kit and be ready
to train hard.
Lightweight ladies
Pee Wee boys and girls
Heavyweight girls
It will probably be no surprise to any of you that our latest batch of black belt wannabe's all passed their 1st Dan grading in April, with flying colours! Congratulations to new 1st Dan's: Aaron O'Callaghan, Craig Noble, Rich Lang, Neil Cullimore and Stabber McStab. There was never any doubt in my mind whilst watching their performance (even Stabber with his version of Joong gun) that they looked like black belts and would pass.
Big congratulations also go to Jo Lougheed for her promotion to 2nd Dan. In
my opinion, the only people better than Jo were the young, fit, ultra
"alpha" athletes. She also demonstrated she has bigger balls than
anyone else there! I don't remember any other women breaking with both hand
and feet, which she did with style. And clobbering her opponent right in
front of the table was awesome.
These guys all made me very proud, and clearly we are doing the right stuff!
Yee haa!
P.S. Has anyone got a spare loo seat? We thought we'd enter Stabber for the next gurning competition...
Are you aware that Summer Camp has been running for 29 years and has been sited in Veryan since 1991 (originally it was in Tresaith, Wales)?
Veryan is a quiet village (except when we arrive!) in the Roseland Peninsula area of Cornwall. This is probably the most scenic and quietest area of the county.
Our site is on the cricket field, adjacent to the Veryan Sports Club and has the benefit of hot showers, kitchen facilities and the club bar. You will be required to bring your own tent (a small number of caravans are allowed, but these must be pre-booked in advance). You will also have to cater for yourself – although an Asda breakfast and pub dinner do seem to work for many!
Camp starts on Saturday 26th July with most people arriving between 2pm and 6pm. Our training starts on Sunday morning. At our initial briefing (usually Saturday night around 7.30pm) we discuss the week’s training, including start times. These will often vary depending very much on the weather, as hopefully all the training is done outdoors. We usually train for about 2 to 2½ hours in the morning and the same in the evening. The remainder of the time is yours to explore the area and do as you please.
On the last night, Friday 1st August, we have a disco in the club bar and we break camp some time on the Saturday – when the alcohol levels have subsided.
Tracksuits or t-shirts and shorts are the dress for the morning sessions, with training shoes and occasionally swimming costumes! However, white doboks are to be worn for the evening sessions. We usually have a grading on the Friday, but only for those who are eligible and proficient enough to grade.
All in all this is a great opportunity to enjoy your Tae Kwon-Do with fellow students without the stresses of everyday life. A good, if somewhat energetic, break from your normal routine.
Interested? If you are 16 or over then click here to download an application form. Applications must be with Mr Martin by the end of June.
We have now started up these new sessions in which the focus will move away from both Syllabus (grading) work, and from sport style sparring. The focus will instead be only on TaeKwon-Do for self defence in realistic situations.
We are aiming (where holidays and competitions don't get in the way) to hold these sessions once a month, on a Saturday morning in the Southville Community Centre.
We cover self defence drills (partnered work), self defence techniques, applications of moves from Tae Kwon-Do patterns in realistic situations, take-downs, throws, grappling techniques, knees/elbows and low kicking etc. etc.
Next session date: Saturday 5th April, 10am - 12pm, Southville Community Centre.
Check out http://www.appliedtaekwondo.com for my blog about the new Applied TaeKwon-Do Sessions! Leave your comments too!
We still have a few club hoodies left - snap yours up quick!
The hoodies are made from high quality sweatshirt material (70% cotton, 30% polyester), in black with a pull-string on the hood and a front pouch pocket. Our Bristol North/Bristol South logo is embroidered on the left chest and the Korean lettering for ‘TaeKwon-Do’ is embroidered down the right sleeve. The following stock is available (so snap them up before they’re gone!): Medium: 6, Large: 12, Extra Large: 9, XXL: 2
All for the knock-down (getit?) price of only £20!! See Mr Martin to get yours now! If any children want a hoodie, we may be able to get some small ones made up (likewise if any size small adults want one!) - again let Mr Martin know if you're interested.