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Dan Gradings

The England and Scotland Dan Gradings and Pre-Dan Grading Seminars have been arranged (see events page). All Instructors should receive the information via email and in the post.

For the English grading *Please note the change in venue to Kingston*

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National Championships 20th March

Congratulations to all the participants of the Chungdokwan GB National Championships. It was an excellent day with some great displays of skill and technique in both the poomse and kyorgi. Special thanks to all the officials. See you all next year!

The association held a raffle in aid of Red Balloon Learner Centres and raised £240 to help the charity set up a new branch. Thanks to all those who contributed.

Winners of the Team Trophies

Kyorgi
1st place: Sagarmatha Dojang
2nd place: LLTKD
3rd place: St Katherine's TKD

Poomse
1st place: Southampton University

Scottish Dan and Senior Grades Seminar

The Technical Committee will be holding two seminars on the 6th and 7th of February to cover the changes in the Poomse. The seminars are specifically aimed at dan and senior grades and are a great opportunity to speak to the senior Masters. GM Biddlecombe recently attended the Foreigners Instructor Course as well as being invited to the World Taekwondo Leaders forum in Korea in September 2009. If you are interested in attending, please contact your Instructor or Lindsey Bell for further information.

Chungokwan GB AGM

Don't forget the AGM on 24th January. If you have not received your information, please contact the Secretary General.

December Dan Grading

Congratulations to everyone who passed their dan in Southampton! For those wishing to grade later in the year, dates will be out shortly.

BTC Instructor Course Update

At relatively short notice, 4 Chungdokwan verifiers trained and re-trained over 70 instructors in November and December. Instructors should expect to receive their CRB disclosures followed by their BTC Instructor Cards within the next few months. Please remember that the Instructor Course is required before any Instructor should be teaching and that additional Instructor Indemnity Insurance is required. Please ask your instructor if you are unclear or contact the association.

Scottish All Grades Seminar, Grading and Instructor Course, 20th & 21st June

Phew! The weekend of 20th and 21st June was extremely busy with a trip to Scotland to see the Scottish Instructors and their students, an all day, all grades seminar covering poomse and kyorgi, and instructors course and then a grading!

It was a great trip and thanks certainly go to Master Andrew Campbell for all the hard work and organising on his part. Thanks too go to Master Andy Brown who has a large group with some top instructors. Master Brown has long supported the association with some excellent fighters and martial artists having trained under him. The trip was also a great opportunity to meet Master Scott McArthur and the students of Pisung Ecosse who arerelatively new to Chungdokwan.

Both the seminar and the grading were well attended and enjoyable, stamina-testing days. Well done to the students and their watching parents who turned out in support!

Dan Grading 26th May

Congratulations to all those who passed their grading on Sunday. The success candidates were:

 

1st Poom:

• Ararat Ameen
• Bilal Benali
• Iain Fletcher
• Jamie Wright
• Jennifer Fernandes
• Katie Bradley
• Kiran Wanniarachchi
• Mansur Tisaev
• Rishi Pandya
• Rose Evans
• Sagida Lahmouddi
• Serine Lahmouddi
• Shunya Matsumoto
  

  1st Dan:

• Aaron Dye
• Anna Morris-Jones
• Hamza Benali
• Imad Benali
• Imed Jaziri
• John Cregg
• Katja Schnaubert
• Miguel Lirio
• Morgane Haller

  2nd Poom:

• Laura James

  2nd Dan:

• Alan Huscroft

• Alan Lee
• Alex Briscoe
• Amar Farooq
• Booker Ogutu
• David Honey
• Hasna Aitissa
• James Jones
• Judy Marton
• Julian Marton
• Khalid Suhrabi
• Lorraine Leventis
• Noreen O'Reilly
• Tim Barlow

  3rd Dan:

• Darren Bailey

4th Dan:

• Master Alastair Eustace
• Master Noel Webb
• Master Paul Sanders

5th Dan:

• Master Sean Daly

6th Dan:

• Master William Crouch

Grand Master Park Hae Man's Visit & Seminars

Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd April

Grand Master Park Hae Man Vice President of Chungdokwan Worldwide and Special Advisor to the Kukkiwon, visited Chungdokwan GB and conducted two seminars for the benefit of Chungdokwan GB students. Both seminars were well attended from the association's clubs, especially given both were mid-week sessions and many of us already have club and work commitments.

Grand Master Park is an inspiration to all of us demonstrating crisp, accurate and uptodate poomse techniques.

Masters Biddlecombe and Lawrence handing out participation certificates with Grand Master Park.

Participants at Thursday's All Grades seminar

"Grow Your Taekwondo Club" Seminar
Sunday 19th April (1-4pm, Kingston)

A three-hour seminar packed with practical information on how to make your club………vibrant, visible and viable

TCGB are pleased to announce that the association will be hosting a specialist Taekwondo club marketing seminar.

The seminar will be open to all TCGB clubs and will provide information on on how clubs can increase student membership and retention.

The presenter will draw from literally hundreds of best practice case studies from community-based, volunteer-run sports clubs from across most sports and leisure organisations to help Taekwondo club instructors improve their clubs.

Information has been sent out to TCGB instructors, but if you have not received it and are interested in attending, please contact Lindsey Bell.

Future Event - Women & Girls ONLY Seminar
Date & Venue TBC

This seminar is specifically aimed at the women and girls in Taekwondo. Taekwondo can be quite often be male dominated, so this seminar is for women of all ages and grades to train together under the instruction of a successful Taekwondo player. Watch this space - more to follow!

Chungdokwan Scotland Players Join Scotland National Team Squad Training
Sunday 29th March

Sunday 29th March saw the inclusion of Chungdokwan Scotland players participating at the national team training. The event was organised by the BTCB National Squad Coaches John Cullen and Mark Russell and the event was attended also by Master Bill Darlington Head of BTCB Scotland. Chungdokwan Instructor Andrew Campbell was invited to be part of the coaching team, putting players through their paces with the session lasting over 5 hours!

A special thanks was made at the start of the coaching session by all players to Master Andy Brown Chief Instructor of the Scottish Taekwondo Union, former national team coach. All players paid their respect to Master Brown and acknowledged his major influence in sparring, having trained all the national team coaches. The squad training event was attended by over 60 students who all worked really hard. All coaches involved were happy to see fighters from various clubs and organisations coming together for the benefit of sport Taekwondo in Scotland.

This will be a monthly event and all Chungdokwan players will be able attend. Happy days are here again!

If you are interested in squad training, why not contact Andrew Campbell for more information?

Corner Judging Course:
Saturday 17th January

TCGB invited the BTCB Chairman of the Referees department to hold a corner judging course available to all its members. We had a good turnout, especially as most people had only been back training for a week. For experienced instructors, students wishing to progress in competition sparring and people interested in corner judging and refereeing, it was a very worthwhile experience. The course was held by Chris Codling, BTCB Refereeing Director, an International Referee with many years of experience.

TCGB would like to thank Chris Codling for holding the corning judging course which was well presented and gave attendees more insight into the importance of corner judging.

The Association will look to hold another of these events later in the year, so please watch this space. We are also looking for people to attend the 2 day Referees course (2nd class) which will be in Manchester on 25th and 26th April. If you are interested please get in touch.

TCGB National Championships:
Saturday 21st March, Bracknell Leisure Centre.

Master Lawrence would like to thank the Tournament Committee for all their hard work in organising the championships and all the clubs and students who participated. We had 300+ competitors who competed during the day and there were some great matches and a good level of sportsmanship throughout.

The Winning Teams were:

Kyorgi:
1. Team UTF
2. Sagamartha Dojang
3. LLTKD

Poomse
1. Southampton University