WLTKD’s chief instructor Mr Martin Noddings came out of a 7 year retirement from competing for last weekends Inter-services championships, an annual competition between the RAF, Army and Navy.
The competition was held at the naval base HMS Nelson, Portsmouth in their glass roofed sports hall on an exceptionally hot day, the temperature reaching 32 degrees.
The competition began with the sparring split down into two weight categories and each fight being 2 x 2 minute rounds. The competition was fierce as expected with a lot of young military personal competing for their respective services.
I am please to be able to formally announce the appointment of Eva Neale, 2nd degree black belt, as the newest member of the Assistant Instructor team at WLTKD.
Eva will join the existing excellent team line up as part of the junior member development team working along side established and very experienced instructors Molly and Jack Rowe to strengthen this part of the club.
Eva works as a Senior Town Planner for the County Council and is also a mother of 2 young boys. This appointment will bring further strength and depth to this part of the club and the instructor team as a whole.
WLTKD students excelled at the TUK Central region coloured belt grading last weekend with 39 students being promoted including 4 student to black tag, well done Thea Roberts, Aisha Yousof, Seb Perrier, Lexie Alferez, the next one is the big one.
We also had 3 'A' passes, well done Sienna Mannell, Gabe Bailey and Sudha Pathak, outstanding performances.
A great team effort by the instructor team to get all there students ready for the grading and performing at an exceptional standard, well done all.
Now we can open the doors to a new beginners quarterly intake to also start on their TKD journey and help to change their lives for the better.
This weekend our Instructor team attended the International Instructor Course in Dublin, Ireland held over 3 days and delivered by the ITF TKD Technical committee Grand Master Morano, Grand Master Lan and Master Jedut.
Attending the course from 11 different countries were nearly 300 black belts, including more than 30 Masters and 7 Grandmasters, doing what we all love. T-UK had 17 instructors at the event, 5 of those from WLTKD.
We had the last training sessions of the year tonight and as always the presentation of the students of the year awards, one adult student and one junior student.
The winning students displayed attributes of leadership, excellent attitude, standards and commitment and are role models in the club to their peers.
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:
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.
The Taekwondo-UK Association black grading was held in Leamington Spa today under the Masters and senior expert grades of the Association. In the grading were eight Warwick & Leamington TKD club students testing for promotion.
After six hours of thorough and intense scrutiny I am pleased to be able to announce the following promotions:
This weekend we delivered another Women’s only self-defence 1 day course at the Gap Community Centre in Warwick.
We had 14 keen but nervous women attending at 9am ready for a tough full day eager to learn new essential life skills to assist in making them feel more comfortable and confidant in their daily lives.
The day started off with an essential and in-depth presentation on all aspects of self-defence such as situational and environmental awareness, understanding how not to be a victim, understanding the psychology of an attacker, conflict resolution tactics, identification of the different categories of rapists, their psychology and how to deal with this challenging situation.
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.
