Achievements 2010

Congratulations to those that attended our first ITF sanctioned event of the year.

Ella Jarvis won Gold in the Under 8's patterns and Zach Kingdom took the Silver in the same event.

Claire Roughley won Gold in the Ladies 2nd Degree patterns.

Corinne Sri WIdada won Gold for Ladies Senior 2nd Degree Patterns and Silver for Sparring

Sophie Barnett won Silver for Ladies Senior !st Degree Patterns and Silver for Sparring.

Well done to Yanni and Joshua for some great indomitable spirit in their events and well done to Joe who won his way through all his rounds in his patterns pool (there were so many in his event that there were 4
pools.....wow!)

Our Plymouth colleagues picked up quite a few medals too.

6th November is the next date for a local tournament, open to everyone, all ages, grades and styles. put it in your diary.

Lesley

I would just like to offer my personal thanks for making this weekends championships a success, it could not have happened without your support. I have placed a short article on Imperials website http://www.tkd.co.uk/articles.asp?arturn=1944, please feel free to submit an article from your prospective.

You will notice my article contains the results table, if there are any irregularities please let me know.The system is capable of displaying pictures of the students that received a medal, I can upload images of your students if you forward them to mark@tkd.co.uk. Feel free to copy and past the results to your own website.

See you at the next one!

Mark Skyrme

South Hams World - Raffle Prize Winners

Congratulations to the following and commiserations to the rest of us:- Click here for list

New Examiner, New Black Belt Training for South Hams Martial Arts Students

South Hams Martial Art students are enjoying a new journey presently. The South Hams clubs, students and instructors are all now in partnership with the more local South Coast Martial Arts group which are based in Plymouth, Ivybridge & Cornwall, which will provide more local benefits and events, as well as being affiliated back to the Founders Taekwon-do, the ITF, allowing more development in International circles too.

This week the Totnes Black Belts enjoyed some black belt company with a 5th Degree Instructor and Black belts from near by clubs from Kingsbridge, Dawlish and all parts of Plymouth. A training session for all black belts just helps to up their game, rather than the mixed classes that many are used to and with selections for the World ITF Championships, taking place this week, it was a well timed extra boost. As part of this new organisation, Black Belts from South Hams will now enjoy regular Black belt training sessions with colleagues around the area. With a previous training session of up to 40 black belts, it can only help to push students towards higher standards and more international goals.

Recently approx 30 coloured belt students took part in a Taekwon-do grading at Kingsbridge Community College, all being examined under a new examiner Mr Chris Wood, 5th Degree.

The students who graded, worked as hard as normal to show off their Taekwon-do technical and sparring skills, which resulted in all students passing and some with Credits and Distinctions.
The results are as follows:-

Junior Grade 1 passes – Pearl Rhodes, Victoria Billis, Kathryn Wallace, Samuel Stewart CREDIT, & Michael Sharwood.

Junior Grade 2 passes – Harry Burner, Joshua Kingdom CREDIT, Alice Letten, & George Parnell.

9th Kup passes – Marcel Purchase DISTINCTION & Olivia Walters CREDIT

8th Kup passes – Brogan Taylor, Callum Slaney & Shane Slaney

7th Kup passes – Nick Walters, Sean Davies CREDIT, Jack Davies CREDIT, Luke Davies CREDIT & Bob Flynn

6th Kup passes – William Isaac, Zoe Gale DISTINCTION, Ross Veale

5th Kup passes – Carmen Slaney & Melchor Purchase

Senior Grade passes –

4th Kup, Joseph Berry CREDIT & Harry Parnell.

3rd kup, Yanni Barnett.

1st Kup, Sara Stone & Rachel Thorpe. CREDIT

Black Belt Assessments – Dan Stone, Louis Gautier & Xavier Taylor.