Excitement. Nerves. Butterflies? Well, I am sure they were all present in the Banstead TaeKwon-Do under 13′s Yellow and Green Team that took part in the TKD Impact League competition on Saturday March 9th. For most of the 10 Banstead junior TKD students that took part this was their first competition and they all took [...]
When: April 3rd – 5th 2013 What: TaeKwon-Do Easter Camp with Master Dennis VII Where: Tadworth Primary School Every year Master Dennis runs a very successful boot camp for Junior TaeKwon-Do students and this year promises to be excellent. if you’re children are around for the 3 days in April then get them along to [...]
I know this post is way late, way behind time, but here’s just a little note about the demonstration we performed at the Priory School Christmas Fayre in 2012 December 2nd, I think, and a large number of Banstead TKD students attended our annual demonstration at the Priory School Christmas Fayre. This year we’d had [...]
BOOM – IT’S HERE, 2013 Just a quick note to say Thank You to all students who attended the first classes of 2013 on Wednesday 2nd January. Well done for making the effort to get down to training and judging by your smiling faces you all had a great time, perhaps brought on by my [...]
TKD Impact, our governing body, in 2012 started a league tournament for it’s members. Throughout the year several competitions were held and Saturday October 20th was the final one for this year. This competition was for yellow belts and higher and for 13 – 17 year old’s and then 18 years plus, it was also [...]
Over the summer period we held two gradings to try to accommodate various school exams / summer holidays / work commitments but there were still 4 people who were unable to attend. In view of their continued patience and dedicated training and attendance we held a small grading for these four people, at opposite ends [...]
September 2nd 2009: the first Wednesday of the month was the first session of Banstead TaeKwon-Do, I was a 3rd Degree Blackbelt at the time and had worked hard to set up a TaeKwon-Do school. I started as I meant to go on: 6pm Tiny TKD’ers 6:30pm Juniors TaeKwon-Do 7:30pm Seniors TaeKwon-D0 Here is a [...]
From Left: Mr Steven Elliot, Master R. Dennis, Mr James Davis Since I started TaeKwon-Do training in 1995 in Scotland there was always a special feeling when being taught by an instructor with stripes on their Dobok, i.e. a 4th Degree Black belt or above and rightly so, 4th Degree is the beginning of the [...]
August 12th was a grading mainly for Green tags and higher, we had 15 grading on the day and well done to all attendees because it was rather sunny and warm outside and you gave that up to be inside. Master Dennis was the examiner again, with myself on the table and Mr Potter giving [...]
On July 8th 3 adult students from Banstead TaeKwon-Do traveled down to Brighton to take part in the 2012 TaeKwon-Do Impact Open Championships. Congratulations to Aaron Duvigneau, Bruno Manso and Stuart Lightfoot who took part in Patterns, Sparring and Power Test. All our competitors represent Banstead TKD and the Martial Art very well. The competition was [...]
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