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Elsa Klegg from our Warwick club has recently been selected for a place at the FA Emerging Talent Centre for football, on top of playing for both Coventry City Girls and her school team. She will take a 6 month sabbatical from TKD to concentrate on her football.
This is no surprise as since Elsa joined the club 3 years ago has developed in to a very mature young lady who hasn’t always found Taekwon Do easy but has become a role model for other junior members.
2023 saw a very successful year for our clubs, new promotions to black belt, exceptional A pass results from each of the coloured belt area gradings, multiple world champions from the T-UK British Championships.
This made choosing the adult and junior students of the year very difficult.
In the end the Instructor team landed on the most deserving members. The criteria for the award is predicated on attendance, effort, attitude, overcoming challenges, taking on instruction and applying it, being a role model.
The Taekwondo-UK Association black grading was held in Leamington Spa today under the Masters and senior expert grades of the Association. In the grading were eight Warwick & Leamington TKD club students testing for promotion.
After six hours of thorough and intense scrutiny I am pleased to be able to announce the following promotions:
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.
Tonight we took fight club on the road to North Leamington TKD club. Some students might find the thought of Fight Club intimidating, the aim of this session was to show that there’s nothing to be worried about.
After a thorough warm up and dynamic stretching session we went on to utilising games to practice and rehearse skills and attributes needed for ring craft and fitness. This was followed by learning and practicing the basic foundation set up techniques of sparring, front leg kicking techniques and then we explored technique options to keep momentum going to win points.
The T-UK MCM Championships were held on Sunday in Stratford with a number of other organisations attending making it a successful and full day of competition.
A relatively small team from Warwick and Kineton attended due to a number of students away on holidays but those that did attend performed very well:
The Mark Scriven Memorial Champs will be held at Stratford upon Avon Leisure Centre on the 16th July.
It is now 2 years since Mark passed away on April 10th 2015. The event is normally run every April to commemorate his passing however, due to Easter Holidays & busy calendars this was not possible this year. The championships will consist of:
Another weekend, another competition, this time we traveled to Manchester for the T-UK Trident Championships and again Warwick-TKD and Kineton-TKD triumphed. The medal haul below is impressive but probably even more importantly we took some yellow tags up to compete for the first time; what a performance by every single one of them they competed out of their skins, if this is what they are performing like now our future is looking great for future competitions and grading performances. The winners were:
Day 2 at the PUMA International Championships saw coloured belts from Warwick-TKD and Kineton-TKD performing. From the standard that was set by the black belts the day before our coloured belt students did not disappoint with excellent performances from all that competed in a high class competition with excellent standards as always:
The results are in from the T-UK British Championships. Warwick-TKD, only one word to describe it, OUTSTANDING!!!!
