Sunday October 9th was a fairly big grading day, with many Seniors and a few Juniors grading in front of Master R. Dennis (VII). This was the first grading for 3 Seniors and 1 Junior, they had prepared so well though that the nerves were minimal and really is the key to conquering certain unnecessary [...]
Just a quick note to say that at the end of August a couple of students visited Master R Dennis on a Sunday morning to grade and I am very happy to say they both passed.
Congratulations to:
Matt (seniors) passing to 4th Kup – Blue Belt
and
Sean (Juniors) passing to 9th Kup – Yellow Tags
Congratulations guys
- James [...]
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 [...]
A well timed grading with Master Dennis who returned to the UK a few days before May 8th from Italy after being promoted to 7th Degree (Master).
Another Sunday afternoon call at Seaton House School Hall, where we are happy to be able to use the facilities. The grading was attended by 19 students ranging from white [...]
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 [...]
11 Students graded during March 2011, 10 on March 20th (the day after the Impact Junior Competition) and 1 on the following Monday. The main grading, March 20th, was at the Elmcroft Centre in North Cheam at 10am and run by Mr Russell Dennis (Still only a ‘Mr’, 6th Degree at that time). An excellent [...]
Sunday 6th Feb
We had a grading planned in February with 4 students ready. The venue was our usual Sunday morning location, the Elmcroft community centre in North Cheam and event’s ran smoothly except that I got the time wrong by an hour, but being adaptable people we worked around it and ran a good grading.
We [...]
Great News, 2 Grading Passes!
There were two students from the Senior TKD class who had been attending every class possible since they started training with us in September and October 2010, respectively, and this attendance has accelerated their learning and physical development.
Both Katie Light and Andy Palacpac have made a huge effort in learning their [...]
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