This weekend most of the team will be going to the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in London for the Tkd England Open Championships.
Everyone seems very excited and the training has certainly been a little more competitive in the last few sessions.
Wishing everyone a successful and safe competition.
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On Saturday 14th June 2014 we will be making a fund-raising climb of Snowdon.
Our target os £1200 so that we can buy size 0s and 1s Daedo chest protectors for our children and peewees team. This will allow them to train using the Daedo scoring system which we all ready have for the Junior and Senior team.
We are looking for each person to raise at least £20.
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The England Taekwondo Open was a great success and it was thoroughly enjoyable day.
There were some great contests not only in the sparring but also in the poomsae competition.
Certainly Tae Kwondo is in good hands if the number of children and peewees are an indication of interest in the sport.
Over the next few days we will add some photographs as we collate them from people who attended.
Thanks for the support.
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There will be a competition at Urmston on the 29th September 2013.
Go to the Events page to see all the details.
It will be a great event.
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Here are some videos from the London Event last weekend on the 9 June 2013.
It was a long but enjoyable day and the team did extremely well.
Go to the London 2013 page to see the videos and leave a comment.
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The scheduled training in Blackpool at 12.30pm today is cancelled today.
Apologies for the cancellation.
There will be extra team training sessions once per month on Saturday and Sundays.
The first session will be on Saturday 1 Dec 2012 from 12.00p.m to 2.30p.m at Bispham Community Centre, Blackpool.
The second session will be on Sunday 2nd Dec 2012 from 1.30p.m to 3.30p.m at Urmston Leisure Centre, Urmston. Manchester.
The sessions will cost £10 Saturday and £10 Sunday or £15 for both days. The monies from the sessions will be going towards new mitts and electronic scoring systems.
Everyone is invited to the sessions. So come along enjoy and improve your sparring at the same time.
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The team was in Scotland last weekend.
Overall the team came third. It was a good effort.
The children’s team did very well with a number of golds. The pick of the team was Maryam’s performance which resulted in a clean knockout.
The Junior team had a number of silvers and bronzes.
The Senior team did very well with Chris, Daley and Daryl winning golds.
It was a a very enjoyable weekend and the team spirit was good with everyone encouraging and supporting. It was fun.
Hopefully, we will get some photos on the site as soon as possible.
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The competition was a great success! We had lots of fantastic fights and the enthusiasm of everyone was thrilling to see. The younger children fought with gusto and bravery.
A special mention must be made to all the people that travelled from Ireland, Scotland, London, Devon and the other counties. They came to compete and gave everything. It is waht makes Tae Kwondo so special.
The referees, corner judges and officials all contributed to the success of the day.
A number of presentations were made:
Daley Richardson made the presentation of 2nd Dan to the parents of Ian Gerrard Satorious Jones. Ian was a former member of the club, who died whilst on military service in Afghanistan this year.
Master Mark Richardson made the 1st Dan presentation to Thomas Mitchell. Thomas is a practising barrisiter and was a former member of the club. He generously sponsored all of the pee-wees and children medals.
We will be putting up the photos in the next couple of days.
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There are only a few days left to the competition.
Everyone is looking forward to it and are training hard.
It is going to be a great time and we look forward to seeing you all there.
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