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Elsa Klegg from our Warwick club has recently been selected for a place at the FA Emerging Talent Centre for football, on top of playing for both Coventry City Girls and her school team. She will take a 6 month sabbatical from TKD to concentrate on her football.
This is no surprise as since Elsa joined the club 3 years ago has developed in to a very mature young lady who hasn’t always found Taekwon Do easy but has become a role model for other junior members.
The year at WLTKD was rounded off with a coloured belt grading with 33 students being selected as reaching the standards necessary to try for promotion. Master Archer the President of the T-UK led the grading panel.
A number of elements are taken into account for promotion, attendance levels, technical ability and attitude. Both physical and mental attitudes we feel are important to be taken in to consideration and recognised.
I am very pleased and proud to announce that all Warwick-TKD students were successful in their black belt grading tests today. Jack and Molly Rowe now hold 2nd Degree black belts, Keegan Costine 1st degree 3rd star and Rufus Bloomfield 1st Degree 1st star. Well done all of you, awesome performances.
It was great to see so many of Warwick-TKD instructors and black belts attending the T-UK Technical course today in Stratford-upon-Avon.
A great opportunity for those grading in a couple of weeks to look for improvements, identify those final areas in need of attention and practice their general technical abilities. Instructors a good day checking their technical knowledge asking questions and looking for excellence to pass on to the club members. As an instructor its very pleasing to see how you have all progressed and improved through hard work and diligence.
Well done all investing in your personal growth and development as well as improving for the good of the club and the members.
We take pride in the mentoring of our students at Warwick-TKD; even before they take their black belts we begin to mentor them into correct teaching methods and give them sections of the class to lead. As their skills and confidence grow we put more and more responsibility on to them.
This video shows you how to practice Do-San Tul which is the 3rd of 24 patterns in Taekwon-Do. It explains how to practice various parts of the pattern, such as how to pivot when you are turning, how to move your body during the different stages of the movements as well as how to remain balanced and develop more power. Then, the video explains the sequence of all 24 movements in the pattern.
This video shows you how to perform a Wedging Block. Recommended for 7th kup grade students and above, the video explains, in detail, how to practice every aspect of the technique including positioning the arms before the block, positioning the arms at the end of the block, sine wave motion and how to develop more power.
This video shows you how to perform a Straight Fingertip Thrust. Recommended for 7th kup grade students and above, the video explains, in detail, how to practice every aspect of the technique including positioning the arms before the thrust, positioning the arms at the end of the thrust, sine wave motion and how to develop more power.
This video shows you how to perform a Back Fist High Side Strike. Recommended for 8th kup grade students and above, the video explains, in detail, how to practice every aspect of the block including positioning the arms before the block, positioning the arms at the end of the block, sine wave motion and how to develop more power.
This video is for beginner level to explain how to practice using a Downward Kick in free sparring.
This is the fourth video in the series on sparring drills, where GM Nardizzi suggests practice drills to improve sparring techniques, combinations, strategies, footwork etc.
