15 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Trigger Point Performance Therapy

Trigger Point Performance Therapy

TriggerPoint Therapy Training
On September 16th 2011 I went to the Fulham Fitrooms to attend the Trigger Point Performance Therapy Ultimate 6+ Training Course taught by Jonathan Lewis from Balance Performance Physiotherapy, a TPT Master Trainer. This was a half day hands on course in which I learnt about the key areas of the human biomechanical [...]

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10 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

TKD Impact Day 2011

TKD Impact Day 2011

October 30th, 2011 – IMPACT DAY 2011
Me, Matt, Katie and Josey travelled through to Croydon to spend the day being taught by Master Nardizzi (8th Degree), Master Anderson (7th Degree) and Master R. Dennis (7th Degree) at Impact Day 2011.
Our association is TaeKwon-Do Impact, founded by Master Nardizzi, and every year a training day is [...]

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27 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Charity Football for Clic Sargent

Charity Football for Clic Sargent

I have always thought that as a club we could do good for our community rather than only doing good for ourselves and our first venture as a group was October 14th where the Priory School in Banstead held a 24 hour charity 5-a-side football event which was extremely well attended by school boys, teachers, [...]

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23 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Grading Results – October 9th

Grading Results – October 9th

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 [...]

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27 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Monthly (erm, Quarterly) Newsletter :)

Monthly (erm, Quarterly) Newsletter :)

Ok, Ok, so it’s been extremely busy recently with Summer holidays, work, TaeKwon-do Schooling, Training and New Students and I have been slow on doing the newsletters. Well, slow isn’t a good description, more like ‘not doing’. Anyhow, I have done a single newsletter covering, July, August and September and it does have Students’s of [...]

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27 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Open Days & New TaeKwon-Do Martial Arts Classes for Banstead

Open Days & New TaeKwon-Do Martial Arts Classes for Banstead

So for two years now Banstead TaeKwon-Do Martial Arts and Self Defence has been going from strength to strength with happy students (often smiling even when being put through the rigours of martial arts bodyweight conditioning – am I right?) who have been progressing very well and developing martial art skills as well as useful [...]

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05 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Grading Results for Greenacre and Banstead from July 3rd

Grading Results for Greenacre and Banstead from July 3rd

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 [...]

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20 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Exercise, Energise and Excitement

Exercise, Energise and Excitement

If you watch anything performed with energy you get a good feeling about it and about the person or people performing. I know that to be able to give all your energy, mental and physical, in every single TKD class you attend is very hard (some days you might feel below par for whatever reason) [...]

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13 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Banstead TKD Grading Results from May 8th

Banstead TKD Grading Results from May 8th

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 [...]

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24 May 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Congratulations to Master Russell Dennis

Congratulations to Master Russell Dennis

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 [...]

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