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 [...]
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 [...]
December 8th 2010 – Grading Day for the Tiny TKD’ers of Banstead TaeKwon-Do. The 4 – 6 year olds, the Tiny TKD class have worked hard all term and some even all summer long before that and they have learnt some important movement skills and even some skills that help them outside the training hall. [...]
Seaton House School in Carshalton Beeches was the venue for the Banstead TaeKwon-Do Grading on Sunday October 17th 2010. 15 Banstead TaeKwon-Do Students somewhat nervously made their way to the grading venue and started putting in some final practice before the examiner, Mr Dennis 6th Degree, began the grading exam. Seven people where experiencing a [...]
Not only did Lukas Saridis pass to his green belt on the Extreme TaeKwon-Do Summer Camp 2010 but he also won the ‘Student of the Week’ award, proving himself the best of over 35 other junior TaeKwon-Do Students. Lukas was the only Banstead TaeKwon-Do Student to attend the TKD Summer Camp, organised by our examiner [...]
Mr Dennis, 6th Dan, our grading examiner held a small grading on Sunday 25th July for some of his students and one student from Banstead TaeKwon-Do who was ready to sit a grading. That one student is Sam Willhoft from the Junior TaeKwon-Do Class (Wed, 6:30 – 7:30; Fri 7-8pm). Sam joined the class around [...]
Last Sunday we had a grading held at North Cheam with a 10 am kick off. Thankfully, everyone was on time – even Hazel who’d had a BIG night out, apparently. Mr Dennis ran the grading as usual and put the 7 eligible Banstead TaeKwon-Do students through the requirements of the grading. Mr Potter and [...]
Sunday, March 21st was an awesome day full of excitment, anticipation and possibly a few nerves which were well controlled and dealt with, it seems. The sports hall at The Priory School in Banstead was converted to a professional TaeKwon-Do DoJang ready for grading time with Mr Russell Dennis (6th Dan, Examiner), Mr James Davis [...]
My TaeKwon-Do students seemed a little nervous on Sunday December 13th which was understandable seeing as they were about to sit their first ITF TaeKwon-Do grading in front of Mr R. Dennis (6th Dan, International Examiner). However, each and every student had prepared fully and thus the nerves were easily controlled. Proper Preparation Prevents Poor [...]
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