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Celebrating Our Success at the Taekwon-Do UK British Championships

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Celebrating Our Success at the Taekwon-Do UK British Championships

What an incredible weekend we had at the Taekwon-Do UK British Championships in Coventry. I am thrilled to share that our club achieved remarkable success, finishing as the second overall club in the entire competition. This is a tremendous accomplishment that reflects the hard work and dedication of our members.

We brought home an impressive 15 gold, 24 silver, and 7 bronze medals. Each medal represents not just talent, but countless hours of training, perseverance, and commitment to excellence. A special shoutout goes to Serena Todd, who ranked in the top 10 individuals and secured 2 gold medals, an outstanding achievement.

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Warwick & Leamington TKD at the Open Welsh Championships

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Warwick & Leamington TKD at the Open Welsh Championships

Yesterday, our dedicated team of competitors from Warwick & Leamington TKD set off bright and early for the Open Welsh Championships in Cardiff. With an 8:30 am registration, the day promised to be long and challenging, lasting until 7:30 pm. However, the excitement and anticipation kept our spirits high throughout the day.

The event was excellently well organised by Master Neil Ernest and his team, ensuring a smooth experience for all competitors. The standards at the competition were impressively high, showcasing the exceptional talent within the Taekwon-Do martial arts community.

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Summer Grading success

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Summer Grading success

We entered 38 members into the recent Summer T-UK coloured belt grading. Everyone who was entered worked hard to attained the high standards required to be considered for promotion. As always the day was split into peewee and junior grading and adult grading.

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English Championships success

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English Championships success

We sent a small team up to Manchester at the weekend to attend the English championships. The event was well attended from around the country with 340 competitors.

With very tough competition from a number of TKD groups I am proud to announce some awesome results by Warwick & Leamington TKD members:

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T-UK British Champs Success

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T-UK British Champs Success

Our club competed in the Taekwon-Do UK British Championships at the weekend with 36 of our members competing.

What an excellent performance from our members with a total of 41 medals being won - 11 bronze, 13 silver and 17 gold, phenomenal!!

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Coloured belt grading success

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Coloured belt grading success

Last weekend Warwick & Leamington TKD attended the T-UK Association Central Region coloured belt grading, the last one for 2021. WLTKD entered 31 students from the club having attained the right standards to qualify to be tested for promotion.

I am very pleased to announce that all our students passed and 9 of them with an A pass standard.

Well done all of you for your excellent preparation and performing at an exceptionally high standard:

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University Championships - British Champion

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University Championships - British Champion

One of our WLTKD Instructor team, Mr Jack Rowe (right of picture), competed at the PUMA British University Championships at the weekend.

I'm very pleased to announce that he won gold in the black belt sparring event. This rounds off an excellent month of achievements as he also successfully graded to 3rd degree black belt this month, well done Jack demonstrating the high standards of the club and being an excellent role model.

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Black Belt Grading Pre-test Success

Yesterday there was held the T-UK Central black belt pre-test with 10 students from WLTKD that had made the required progressions and standards to be considered for testing.

The test was conducted by Mr Martin Noddings VI dan, assisted by Mr Rick Dhillon V dan and lead by Mr Alan Smith IV dan.

The test lasted 3 hours in total thoroughly testing all elements of the attendees TKD abilities.

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C-19 Coloured Belt Grading Success

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C-19 Coloured Belt Grading Success

Today we had our first grading in nearly 18 months with 3 small group grading sessions wearing face masks to comply with C-19 guidance. We had 16 of our Warwick & Leamington TKD students grade under the T-UK Association President Master John Archer and Myself in intense 60 minute sessions that were non-stop and each student under the spotlight with nowhere to hide.

Even though the students have not been able to grade for 18 months this has not stopped their learning and development through lockdown with a student training video library to assist them, a period of time face to face between lockdowns and then Zoom classes during lockdown 2. Once we were able to train outside their face to face training and development took off in earnest as well as 121 personal training to get them to the required standard for this grading.

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Back Training Inside

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Back Training Inside

Last night saw Warwick & Leamington TKD club back inside Everyones Active Warwick site, St Nicholas Park Leisure Centre.

After 2 months of conducting training sessions out in the park twice a week we returned to the leisure centres main sports hall delivering 2 classes. This is ideal timing as the club has a promotion grading test scheduled for the beginning of June so will allow a quality practice environment for the students.

Thursday nights are still being conducted out in the park however this gives the students a fantastic opportunity to practice their skills in a realistic environment wearing clothes and trainers on as they would be if they had to deal with a physical situation for real.

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