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16th May 2009 Competition Report & Results

There were five students from Bulldog School participating in the latest Impact competition - four juniors under 13 years old and one senior:

Jennifer Tu - Red Belt (-13)

James Nguyen - Blue Belt (-13)

Samir Amin - Yellow Belt (-13)

Benjamin Tran - Yellow Belt (-13)

Glyn Robbins - Green Belt (35+)

There were impressive performances in patterns from Glyn and Ben at their first competition. Both were up against strong opponents and both lost by one vote. Though I do stand by my opinion that Ben should have gone through to the next round. Well decision was made and he lost to the eventual silver medallist.

Glyn made a couple of silly mistakes and still managed to take two votes out of five against a female competitor who looked pretty strong technically. Never mind, I know now that he CAN do nice sine wave!  Both - Glyn and Ben - put in a great deal of work and preparation, brought their patterns up to a good competitive level in just few weeks and proved that they can perform very well under pressure.

James performed a nice pattern but it was not enough and he lost to a very loud opponent :). Again I do believe that he should have gone through to the next round, though I must  say that he made one big technical mistake and his side kicks could be better. Seeing James performing at previous competitions, he always steps up after the first round. Unfortunately, he did not have such opportunity this time. That will teach him to do his best from the first time!

Samir lost in the final - excellent first part of Do-San, terrible second part... so no argument there!

Very good performance from Jennifer - she deserved her Champion title.

In sparring there was a slow start for Samir but he was lucky enough to get through to the next round. This was followed by very good performance in the next two rounds - nice foot work. He drew in the final and it went to extra time. It was close fight but the decision went to his opponent.

Glyn got too friendly with everyone from his division before fighting (big mistake!) and did not fight aggressively enough. He lost to a tall blue belt but quite easily beat a shorter yellow belt to claim silver.

I did not see others' sparring and special techniques so cannot comment on those.

As for power test - I forgot to tell Glyn that he was supposed to break boards, not the holder! :)

Results:

Jennifer Tu - GOLD in patterns, GOLD in special techniques, BRONZE in sparring

Samir Amin - SILVER in patterns, SILVER in sparring, BRONZE in special technique

Glyn Robbins - SILVER in sparring

Well done to all! Photos

New Grading Requirements

Yellow Belts - at least ONE competition a year as a yellow belt

Green Belts - at least TWO competitions a year as a green belt

Blue Belts - at least TWO competitions a year as a blue belt and at least ONE additional seminar/course

Red Belts - at least TWO competitions a year as a red belt and at least TWO additional seminar/course

Black Tags - at least TWO competitions a year (including international) and at least TWO additional seminar/course (including International Instructors Course)

There will also be preliminary physical, technical and theory test for all based on your syllabus that you need to do with your instructor before being graded by Master. 

2009 Term II

The next term will start on 4th April 2009 and will end 1st July 2009. There will be NO CLASS on 11th April 2009 and 16th May 2009

Colour Belts Grading Results 14 March 2009

Laurence Gaborit promoted to 7th Kup with O+ level pass

James Nguyen promoted to 4th Kup with O+ level pass

Jennifer Tu promoted to 2nd Kup with O+ level pass

Congratulations to Jennifer and James on their senior belts promotion, red and blue respectively, and gold medals from the recent competition photo

TKD Impact Junior Championships 28th February 2009

Samir Amin - SILVER Under 13 Yellow Belt Patterns, BRONZE Special Technique photo

James Nguyen - GOLD Under 13 Green Belt Patterns photo

Jennifer Tu - GOLD Under 13 Blue/Red Belt Pee-Wee Sparring, GOLD Sp. Tech. photo

3rd World Cup Riva Del Garda Report

TKD Impact Report

The informal report

Press / Media

Press Release in East End Life 3/12/2007

East End Life

BBC Video Nations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/08/10/london_tkd_video_feature.shtml

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Other Training Venues

Kensington Leisure Centre (Tots/Children/Adults), Parish Church Croydon (Tots/Children/Adults), Latchmere Leisure Centre Battersea (Tots/Children/Adults)

If you miss your regular class or you would like to do additional training, you can go to any of the schools above. Please check address, training days & times and appropriate age on www.tkdimpact.com (go to Club Directory/London) or ask your instructor. Same applies to grading - if you miss your grading or cannot make it on a particular date, you can grade at other Impact venues on a different date. Please note that only Docklands School is open during August.

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Congratulations to those who passed their grading on 6th December

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