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Well done to all our members who attended the England ITF Grandmaster seminar hosted by the T-UK in Stratford Upon Avon, great support and enthusiasm from the club as always.
The seminar was led by Grandmasters Ellis and Nardizzi. The seminar was broken down in to two halves coloured belts followed by a black belt only seminar. Each seminar consisted of a technical deep dive into all aspects of TKD.
Last night saw Warwick & Leamington TKD club back inside Everyones Active Warwick site, St Nicholas Park Leisure Centre.
After 2 months of conducting training sessions out in the park twice a week we returned to the leisure centres main sports hall delivering 2 classes. This is ideal timing as the club has a promotion grading test scheduled for the beginning of June so will allow a quality practice environment for the students.
Thursday nights are still being conducted out in the park however this gives the students a fantastic opportunity to practice their skills in a realistic environment wearing clothes and trainers on as they would be if they had to deal with a physical situation for real.
I am pleased to announce that we have a new club to add to our exsisting portfolio which will be held at Newbold Comyn Leisure Centre in Leamington Spa. This cements further our excellent relationship and partnership with Everyone Active.
Classes will be held every Thursday from the 9th January from 7-8pm in the main sports hall. As with the Warwick classes they will be a family class allowing parents and their children to train at the same time for convenience.
The classes will be mainly run by Mr Martin Noddings and Miss Molly Rowe with the assistance, when necessary, from the other Assistant Instructors from Warwick which will create an excellent consistency of quality across both clubs.
The added benefit to opening up the Leamington club is that it will give members of both clubs the ability to train 3 nights a week if they wanted with no price increase from the existing £40 per month unlimited club night training package which equates to £3.33 per class.
If you are new to martial arts and would like to give it a go you can get a free trial session, just email for phone to reserve one of the limited place, we are also offering free training for all of January if you join before the 15th of the month.
This Sunday saw the 3rd Mark Scriven T-UK Championships held in Stratford upon Avon. This drew competitors from around the country including a number of the current ITF England national team. Our students prepared well putting some hard hours in to get ready for the competition.
Warwick-TKD and Kineton-TKD fielded an excellent team of students at the T-UK British Championships held in Stratford upon Avon at the weekend. As always outstanding performances by everyone with ever single one of our students that entered coming away with a medal, well done all of you.
This video is aimed at beginner level students. It shows you two ways of following up a Side Kick so that you are you left vulnerable after the kick. This video is part of a series on sparring drills, where GM Nardizzi suggests practice drills to improve sparring techniques, combinations, strategies, footwork etc.
This video is for intermediate level students, teaching you how to switch stance before executing a rear leg Turning Kick. The switching movement is useful to help you dodge or reposition yourself in a free sparring situation.
It is part of a series on sparring drills, where GM Nardizzi suggests practice drills to improve sparring techniques, combinations, strategies, footwork etc.
I love it when this happens it shows that we are right on the money, we did these exact drills 2 weeks ago in our Tuesday class.
Take a look at the latest video and the first video in the series on sparring drills from GM Nardizzi, where he suggests practice drills to improve sparring techniques, combinations, strategies, footwork etc.
Well done all that attended yesterdays Central Region Fight club, great energy, great spirit, great commitment. The improvements that you are all making are excellent, there is a real shift in sparring technique and style. Here are a few pictures from the session, thank you Jamie Crump.
