Tae Kwon-Do

No Classes until further notice.

15/3/2020

With Friday’s announcement that all sporting venues are to be shut our club is effectively closed until such time we can get back into our venues.

Please check in here and look out for emails on what we can do to keep training during this period of uncertainty.

I hope you and your family stay safe, fit and well and I hope to see you all back in the Dojang in the near future.

TAGB Grading

17/2/2020

Congratulations to the following sucessful students

1st Kup Red Belt
Owen Lockyer - A Pass & Grading award
Zak Lockyer

2nd Kup Red Belt
Clare Lockyer

4th Kup Blue Belt
Russell Hockley - A Pass
Grace Hockley

5th Kup Green Belt
Darcey Chamberlain

6th Kup Green Belt
Anna Malinowska

7th Kup Yellow Belt
Reece Lockyer
Geoff Luxton
Maria Mahoney
Elle Shellard
James Morrissey
Tyler Britton

8th Kup Yellow Belt
Radvilsa Venckauskaite
Gabriel Lakey

9th Kup White Belt
Dhanya Saravana

Your belts and certificates will be presented at yout next class.

West of England 2020

10/2/2020

We had quite a busy weekend with 278 Black Belts training together on Saturday afternoon, then 508 competitors at the West of England completion on Sunday.
Congratulations to Grace and Maria who both got a bronze medal in their sparring divisions, Russell came away with silver in the patterns. Owen won gold in the patterns and sliver in the sparring. Clare fought to win gold in her sparring division. Special mention goes to Sofia who opted to fight in the adult division at red belt and won through to a bronze medal.
Well done to Darcy, James, Arthur, Anne, Hayden and Zak who may not have medalled this time but tested themselves, better luck next time!
I will post a link to the official media page when it comes out
Next competition national competition is the English championships in Coventry on 15th March
The next local competition is the junior development competition for u16 competitors at Hutton Moor on Sunday 31st May

5/2/2020

West of England Competition.
Good luck to Maria, James, Hayden, Russell, Grace, Sofia, Anne, Arthur, Clare, Zak, Arthur & Darcey as they take part in this weekend’s competition.
If you would like to come along to support them as well as the other 488 competitors taking part in patterns, sparring as well as destruction, tag team sparring and pattern divisions, Spectator tickets are £10 and available on the door. The competition starts at 9:30 on Sunday morning..

TAGB Grading
The next TAGB coloured belt grading will be on Monday 17th Feb at Broadoak College.
We will be holding pre-grading on Monday 10th and 12th Feb in preparation.

Black Belt training
Hutton Moor will host the first Black Belt training of 2020 with a patterns course starting at 14:00 on Saturday 8th Feb, All Black belts should attend either this session or either of the sessions in April to remain eligible for future promotions. Please remember to bring along your licence book.

Tigers!
We have just started classes for juniors on Saturday mornings specifically for 5 to 9 year olds,
Mr Chamberlain will host these sessions based on basics, fitness and lots of fun games!
We are inviting all white or yellow belt junior student to come along to these classes free of charge.
The classes are at the Campus starting at 11:15. If you know of anyone who might be interested please let them know, remember if a student you introduce to the club stays past their introductory period you will get a club hoodie.
see https://www.facebook.com/WestonTigers/

Training times over Christmas

23/12/2019

The Campus and Hutton Moor will closed on our regular training nights over Christmas so we will loose the lessons on 23rd & 30th December, to make up for these classes, and in preparation for the grading & tournament in February we will be will be offering the Saturday classes as FREE sessions during January.
Training resumes on Saturday 6th Jan and that class will be covering sparing and competition

Grading Results

3/12/2019

Congratulations.
The following students have been successful at the recent TAGB Coloured belt grading with Grand Master Dew, The club had 27 students successfully progressing onto their new grades, Your new belts and certificates will be presented at your next class.

1st Kup Red Belt
Anne-Mette Jacobsen
Jacob Shellard

2nd Kup Red Belt
Ola Marchenko
Sofia Soh

3rd Kup Blue Belt
Devon Chamberlain
Chris Lockyer
Boyan Markov
Yana Markova

4th Kup Blue Belt
Debbie Chamberlain
Paul Tattersall

5th Kup Green Belt
Grace Hockley
Russell Hockley Plus Pass

6th Kup Green Belt
Arthur Mead
Aiden Widdowson

7th Kup Yellow Belt
Ashleigh Hughes
Alma Mead

8th Kup Yellow Belt
Joesph Capille
Geoff Luxton Plus Pass
James Morissey
Maria Mahoney
Zak Radford
Ella Shellard
Migle Venkauskaite Plus Pass
Reece Lockyer
Tyler Briton Plus Pass
Josh Marnock

9th Kup White Belt
Ben Williams

December 2019 Newsletter

28/11/2019

Coloured Belt grading

Good luck to those taking part in Mondays grading, it will be our biggest grading of the year. The grading will start at 6:30 at Broadoak Academy, those taking part will have received more information.
For those students not taking part in the grading, there will NOT be a class on that night so you can come along to the grading and support your fellow students.

Safeguarding code & club policies
I am pleased to announce that the club, has been awarded Safeguarding Code recognition. Achieving the Safeguarding Code, demonstrates our commitment to upholding its duty-of-care to the community and young people and recognises the club as a martial arts provider that has reached and effectively maintained good safeguarding standards. The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts has been created so that parents and carers can clearly identify a martial arts provider that have demonstrated that they have reached and maintained good safeguarding standards. More information on the mark can be found here https://www.safeguardingcode.com/
Can I ask you all to look at the new club policies page, which helps define the clubs principles and values for us all to understand.

Junior Christmas meal
This year we will invite junior students to a Christmas meal at Pizza Hut in Weston on Thursday 12th December starting a 6:00. I will need to get numbers together so if your child would like to come a long I will require £10 and names by Wednesday 4th, You can register here.

Presentation night & Christmas meal
As usual, we will have a combined class presentation night between 18:30 and 19:30 on Monday 16th December at The Campus, during the class we will recognise the best junior male & female students as well as the best adult. Afterward the adults are invited to the Woolpack for a festive meal. meal choices can be found here

Training times over Christmas
The Campus and Hutton Moor will closed on our regular training nights over Christmas so we will lose the lessons on 23rd & 30th December, to make up for these classes and in preparation for the grading & tournament in February will be will be opening up the Saturday classes as FREE sessions during January. We will return to training on Saturday 4th Jan and that class will be covering sparing and competition.

West of England Championships
The South West of England Championships will again be held at Hutton Moor on Sunday 9th Feb , it is open to all 9th kup students and above for patterns and sparring as well as destruction for Black Belts. Full details and application forms will be available in the next few weeks.

Black Belt training 2020
The first Black Belt training session of 2020 will be on Saturday 8th Feb at Hutton Moor starting at 15:00 this will be a patterns event.

Next coloured belt grading.
The first TAGB grading of 2020 will be on Monday 17th Feb

TAGB Grading 2nd December 2019

19/11/2019

The results so far…
The following students have been selected to take part in the TAGB grading on Monday 2nd December at Broadoak academy. These students will receive an email explaining what to do next.
If your name is NOT of the list, we will work with you over the next few lessons to help you prepare and get your name onto the list
We have classes on Saturdays at the campus 11;15 – 12;15 which will concentrate on the grading program.

Anne-Mette Jacobsen
Jacob Shellard
Ola Marchenko
Sofia Soh
Devon Chamberlain
Chris Lockyer
Boyan Markov
Yana Markova
Debbie Chamberlain
Paul Tattersall
Grace Hockley
Russell Hockley
Arthur Mead
Aiden Widdowson
Ashleigh Hughes
Alma Mead
Joesph Capille
Geoff Luxton
James Morissey
Maria Mahoney
Zak Radford
Ella Shellard
Migle Venkauskaite
Reece Lockyer
Tyler Briton
Josh Marnock
Ben Williams

Southern Championships

23/9/2019

Congratulations to Grace Hockley who came away with a trophy from the Southern Championships recently held in Torquay.

September Newsletter

14/9/2019

Saturday classes.
We will soon be putting on additional classes on Saturday mornings at the Campus, between 10-11am, overseen by Mr Chamberlain. These classes will focus on improving performance and technique as well as covering core items from the syllabus and pad work. These class are £5 per session which will be payable at the session.

Southern Championships 2019
Your next chance to compete is the Southern Championships to be held on Saturday 5th October in Paignton. This event will celebrate Grand Master Dew’s 50 years in Tae Kwon Do, every competitor will receive a commemorative certificate as a keep sake.\If you want to enter please complete the entry form here and bring it into class along with entry fees by Monday 23rd September at the latest. Black Belt Officials must register themselves on-line here.

Black Belt training.
We have two upcoming Black Belt training sessions in Weston, remember you must attend at least one session per 6-month period to remain on target to take your next Dan grade. The sessions are hosted by Grand Master Dew. Any student wanting to come down and watch over 200 black belts training is welcome to come along and watch, unfortunately you are not allowed into the Dojang, but are welcome to watch from the many viewing areas.

Sparring Equipment.
Just to remind you all that only official TAGB or Tae Kwon Do International branded sparring kit can be worn at official events and in class. Also ripped or potentially hazardous kit must be replaced before attending any official events.

Licences.
Please ensure you keep you licence up to date, as we are moving to an on-line renewal system (for instructors to use) it is quicker for us to get licences back to you , but it will also note any breaks in licence cover which may affect your chances to attend your next grading.
Calendar of events

December Grading
The next TAGB grading will be on Monday 2nd December.. lets all get ready for this and make it a great grading!

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