September 6th 2011 saw the first session of the Greenacre School TaeKwon-Do Autumn (?) term and I am so pleased with the attendance, 13 of you turned out for a fun TKD session filled with games and of course punching and kicking. It was so good to see such excitement and enthusiasm again from all [...]
August 15 – 19th 2011 was a week full of TaeKwon-Do training for children aged between 6 and 16 years from Extreme TaeKwon-Do, the camp is run by Master R. Dennis. Five students from Banstead TaeKwon-Do enrolled for the week hoping to possibly grade at the end of the week.
Conor, Sam, William and Mikey from [...]
The new Greenacre School TaeKwon-Do club has come on extremely well since we started early in the summer term of 2011, and after lots of hard work and study the girls were all ready to sit their first grading in ITF TaeKwon-Do.
I arranged a date with our grading examiner, Master R. Dennis VII, for Sunday [...]
Conor and James from the Banstead TaeKwon-Do Juniors showed excellent levels of determination and courage to enter their second TaeKwon-Do Competition during July 2011. They were the only two competitors from Banstead TaeKwon-Do to attend the TKD Impact Open on July 10th down in Brighton, so a BIG WELL DONE for making the effort and [...]
On behalf of everyone at Banstead TaeKwon-Do I would like to congratulate Russell Dennis, our grading examiner and my instructor, on his promotion to 7th Degree Blackbelt and Master in ITF TaeKwon-Do.
Master Dennis travelled to the 62th International Instructors Course at Riccione in Italy and took part in 3 days of training over the weekend [...]
So, the April newsletter (which is news from March) shows the Students of the month and Congratulations goes to:
Chloe – Tiny TKD Star Of the Month
Chloe has worked hard on her forward rolls, this being her biggest challenge so far, and she has made excellent progress – well done!
James – Junior TaeKwon-Do Student Of the [...]
I was so pleased with the competitive spirit in all the Banstead TaeKwon-Do Junior Students who took part in the TKD Impact Junior Competition on March 19th, 2011 – every one of you did amazingly well and you should all be super proud.
Haywards Heath was the venue again, which has great facilities and allowed for [...]
WOW, What a great time we had with some fantastic friends back where I started TaeKwon-Do, Montrose in Scotland.
Mr Boydell, 4th Degree, is a good friend of mine. We trained TaeKwon-Do through the old ’90’s in Montrose, Scotland, our instructor was Mr McNairn, 6th Degree. Mr Boydell, and his wife Mrs Ngaire Boydell, 2nd Degree, [...]
With January 2011 done and dusted and with many more students giving this great activity a try, finding they love it and sticking around, it’s been a great month and time to announce Students of the Month:
Chloe Howell – Tiny TKD’ers (4 – 6 year olds)
Chloe start the Tiny TKD Classes in Banstead back in [...]
October was a great month with every student working really hard towards their grading and then competition training after that. It was tough to pick winners this month, here they are:
TINY TKD’ers – Chloe and Keiran
Chloe and Keiran started training with us back in the Summer and have been a really good influence on the [...]
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