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A great day spreading the Warwick & Leamington TKD word along with Paragon Personal Training at TATA European Innovation & Development HQ in Leamington Spa.
A number of different health, fitness and wellbeing companies were invited in to talk to their employees over the lunch time period to assist on getting employees more active. Some great conversations had and hopefully some new members to come from it.
Thank you to Martin Durrant Vice President, EU ER&D & Operations, for inviting us in.
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.
Post training and award giving we held our club Christmas meal out which is traditionally a curry celebrating an awesome year with a fabulous group of people; this year was no different apart from holding it at Warwick Spice. Thank you to all the students and Instructors who were able to make it, a thoroughly enjoyable night.
(How many times can you spot Rachel Hoult?!)
We are almost at the end of the year with just Friday’s class to go, then a well earnt break for both Instructors and students after a phenomenal year of fantastic performances in competitions with 40 medals won, gradings resulting in 55 promotions and amazing growth in both our Kids and adult classes, classes are buzzing.
So last night was the awarding of the student of the year awards. This is awarded to the coloured belt student in the adult class and children class that have demonstrated the tenets of TKD throughout the year, their attendance, technical ability, desire to improve, willingness to assist others in the class, overall attitude to training and their attitude to others in the club is taken into account with all the Instructors in the club having a vote of who the winners will be. This was very hard this year as we had a number of very deserving students. However I am proud to announce the winners:
This weekend saw the last coloured belt grading for the year held in Stratford under Master John Archer President of the T-UK Association.
The Warwick TKD students have been preparing hard for this grading ramping up the intensity at training leading up to it. This hard work and dedication showed in their performance with outstanding performances across the board.
Two members which i would like to highlight for their A passes are:
Kajetan Boniewski - promoted to Blue belt
Thea Roberts - promoted to Green belt
Also a big thank you to all the Instructors at the club who have also put their all into preparing the club for this grading.
Tonight saw our final Friday night club training session held at Warwick Space which has housed our Friday night classes for the last 5 years, a great community centre hall with an accommodating and a supportive management committee. Quite a sad night as I closed up tonight at the end of the class as we have been using it for so long and built up a great class of students in it.
So thank you Warwick Space, but great excitement as we move the class to the same venue as our Tuesday night classes at St Nicholas Park Leisure Centre run by Everyone Active cementing our relationship further with them at the Warwick prime location with plenty of free parking and much more space to train in.
Today three of our Black Belts were tested for promotion in Stratford Upon Avon under Master Archer and Master Ridley. The promotion test lasted a number of hours with candidates being tested on patterns, set sparring, self-defence techniques, free sparring, destruction and a thorough verbal test on theory and technical applications. It is with great pleasure and pride that I can announce the following promotion from Warwick TKD:
Rachel Hoult - Promoted to 2nd Degree
Keegan Costine - Promoted to 2nd Degree
Harry Hoult - Promoted to 1st Degree 1st star
Due to the fabulous growth of the Warwick TKD Friday night classes it has been necessary to look for a new bigger venue. After meetings with St Nicholas Park Leisure Centre management, where we hold our Tuesday night classes, we have come to an agreement for us to move our Friday night class here as well in to the main sports hall. The class will run from 7-8pm with the first class at this venue being on the 22nd November.
This further cements the excellent relationship and partnership that we have with Everyone Active leisure centre management company with both the T-UK clubs of Warwick and Stratford running all their primary club class nights in their facilities putting us in the heart of our communities premium health and fitness venues.
Another T-UK British Championships is done and dusted with some excellent results from the awesome Warwick students. For a number of the students this was their first competition so some anxious white and yellow tag competitors, but a big step forward on their journey for personal growth and development as well as some silverware to take home. Results:
The Central Region coloured belt grading was held at Stratford Upon Avon today overseen by Master Archer President of the TUK. An outstanding grading for the Warwick club students with three ‘A’ passes:
Thea Roberts - promoted to green stripe
Henry Lion - promoted to yellow belt
Peter Gearing - promoted to green belt
All other students also passed with all of them raising their game for the grading and demonstrating the high standards that we expect from our students at the club. Well done all you have made the instructor team very proud.
