Last weekend Warwick & Leamington TKD attended the T-UK Association Central Region coloured belt grading, the last one for 2021. WLTKD entered 31 students from the club having attained the right standards to qualify to be tested for promotion.
I am very pleased to announce that all our students passed and 9 of them with an A pass standard.
Well done all of you for your excellent preparation and performing at an exceptionally high standard:
One of our WLTKD Instructor team, Mr Jack Rowe (right of picture), competed at the PUMA British University Championships at the weekend.
I'm very pleased to announce that he won gold in the black belt sparring event. This rounds off an excellent month of achievements as he also successfully graded to 3rd degree black belt this month, well done Jack demonstrating the high standards of the club and being an excellent 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:
This weekend we delivered another Women’s only self-defence 1 day course at the Gap Community Centre in Warwick.
We had 14 keen but nervous women attending at 9am ready for a tough full day eager to learn new essential life skills to assist in making them feel more comfortable and confidant in their daily lives.
The day started off with an essential and in-depth presentation on all aspects of self-defence such as situational and environmental awareness, understanding how not to be a victim, understanding the psychology of an attacker, conflict resolution tactics, identification of the different categories of rapists, their psychology and how to deal with this challenging situation.
Yesterday there was held the T-UK Central black belt pre-test with 10 students from WLTKD that had made the required progressions and standards to be considered for testing.
The test was conducted by Mr Martin Noddings VI dan, assisted by Mr Rick Dhillon V dan and lead by Mr Alan Smith IV dan.
The test lasted 3 hours in total thoroughly testing all elements of the attendees TKD abilities.
WLTKD entered 14 of it’s students in to the T-UK Central region grading last weekend. This was the first grading since C-19 which resembles a normal grading format with contact sparring and set sparring introduced back in.
A great performance by all the students who gave it 100% and earned their promotion to the next belt grade.
Well done to all who graded representing WLTKD and the high standards of the club:
Saturday we held our first Women’s only self-defence course since the pandemic hit. The course landed on the 6 month anniversary of the murder of Sarah Everard as well as the release of Colin Pitchfork the double rapist and murderer.
We started off with all participants and instructors undertaking a lateral flow test as close proximity in the physical delivery part of the class was necessary and everyones safety was paramount.
Our courses are not just about leaning the physical interventions and skills required in a violent incident we start by delivering a comprehensive and informative presentation educating the participants on the psychology of violent and sexual offenders. We looked at situational and environmental awareness and how to identify challenges and how to react for a positive outcome. Participants were encouraged to share their own experiences which brought to life the presentation content, this also allowed for discussion on strategies and solutions for similar experiences.
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This is not just teaching the attendees how to physically look after themselves:
Creating an understanding and adopting personal safety habits that will firstly reduce your risk of being identified as a target
Teach you situational awareness
Assist you if you are targeted to defuse the situation
And then if necessary teach you effective techniques that will enable you to deal with an attacker.
Prepare yourself before heading out on holiday!
Learning to have safety awareness in your daily life and the life skills of being able to defend yourself in todays society is essential.
We are pleased to announce that with the C-19 restrictions coming to a close on the 19th July that we are able to start running our Women’s only Self-defence courses again.
These one day courses run from 10am to 5pm on a Saturday and are aimed to empower women in their daily lives by building self-confidence and imparting knowledge and easy to remember and apply self-defence techniques if they are called to do so.
Today we had our first grading in nearly 18 months with 3 small group grading sessions wearing face masks to comply with C-19 guidance. We had 16 of our Warwick & Leamington TKD students grade under the T-UK Association President Master John Archer and Myself in intense 60 minute sessions that were non-stop and each student under the spotlight with nowhere to hide.
Even though the students have not been able to grade for 18 months this has not stopped their learning and development through lockdown with a student training video library to assist them, a period of time face to face between lockdowns and then Zoom classes during lockdown 2. Once we were able to train outside their face to face training and development took off in earnest as well as 121 personal training to get them to the required standard for this grading.
