Well Done to the following students who took part in the first TAGB face to face grading of 2021
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1st Kup Red Belt
Devon Chamberlain

5th Kup Green Belt
James Morrissey

7th Kup Yellow Belt
Zak Radford

8th Kup Yellow Belt
Thomas Burrow - Plus pass.

Your belts and certificates will be presented next week.

TAGB Coloured Belt grading
The next coloured belt grading will be at Broadoak Academy on Monday 7th June, this will be a small in person grading hosted by GM Dew. Students will be being given a specific start and end time for their grading and there will be no cross over between groups, unfortunately there will be no spectators at this event. An email will be sent after next Wednesdays class with those who have been selected to take part.

Tigers Grading
Some of our junior Tigers will be testing on Saturday 5th June for their next belt. An email will be sent to those taking part after this Saturdays session.

Bank Holiday Monday.
The campus is closed so there will be no classes on Monday 31st May, go out, enjoy the (hopefully) good weather.

Black Belt Patterns course
There will be a Black Belt Patterns course on Saturday 4th July at Hutton Moor, this will have limited spaces and you will have to book your slot on the SW area website, I will let you know when the booking form is open.

New faces
We have welcomed lots of new faces into the club over the past few weeks, and hopefully we will see more adults starting and old faces returning as we return to a more normal way of training, with the phased return to training we will see juniors back to sparring and Adults using pads in during June and by the end of the month returning to an almost normal training syllabus.

Club Merchandise
There will be a newly designed club hoodies along with a tee-shirt on the club website very soon.

Licences
Please make sure your TAGB licence is in date if you are grading or attending any official events, if you are unsure if your licence is in date, ask me.
If there is anything you need further information or clarification on, please ask!

As the government has recently changed the level of restrictions this will allow us to resume some more classes
From Monday 17th May we will run indoor adult classes and allow some more content with the juniors.
 
Adults: Can resume indoor training but must maintain social distancing and no person-to-person contact is allowed. This will be much the same as the way we were training before Christmas.
Classes           
Mondays @ the Campus                     20:00 – 21:00 in the Sports Hall
Wednesday @ Hutton Moor               20:00 - 21:00 in the Sway Studio (limited spaces)
BOOK INTO CLASSES
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Family classes: We will resume a class where families can train at the same time, these classes will maintain the same social distance rules as adults with no contact between different family bubbles. These classes will also have new adult starters.
Classes           
Mondays @ the Campus                     19:00 – 19:55 in the Sports Hall
Wednesday @ Hutton Moor               19:00 - 19:55 in the Sway Studio (limited spaces)
BOOK INTO CLASSES
 
Juniors, can now train together and use pads held by the instructor.
Classes           
Mondays @ the Campus 1                  18:00 – 18:55 in the Sports Hall
Wednesday @ Hutton Moor               18:00 – 18:55 in the Sway Studio
BOOK INTO CLASSES
 
The use of footwear is now optional, as is bringing along a mat to use for floor exercise.
Many of the other processes to keep us all safe remain and can be found in full when you book into class along with the full risk assessment and BTC guidelines for Return to Play.
We are in the Sway studio at Hutton Moor for the next 5 weeks before moving back into the main sports hall in June.
 
Looking forward the TAGB expect the next change in restrictions in June to enable us to return to training, grading and competing in, what was, a normal way.

As the Campus is closed tonight we will run a zoom session between 18:00 - 18:45 for our Junior class, followed by a session for senior grades and adults 18:45 - 19:30
you can connect via the same links as before.
See you on the screen!

After this week’s announcement that we all are back in lockdown we will have to revert back to providing training sessions via zoom.
 
Monday

• 17:30- 18:00   White Belts
• 18:00-18:45    Juniors
  
• 18:45-19:30    Adults
  

Wednesday

• 18:00-18:45    Juniors
• 18:45-19:30    Adults

 Saturday

•  11:00-11:30 Tigers
  

Sunday

• 10:00-10:35 Fitness  (This session is open to everyone, friends & family are welcome)

We have done this before, let's do it again and continue to progress and improve.
I hope to see you all on-line soon.

As we start the latest lockdown, we will return to running Zoom sessions for all our classes.
I know that zoom sessions are not possible for everyone and nothing beats being in an instructor lead face to face session but it is all we can do for now...
I will send out and updated class schedule as soon as I can.
watch this post for updates!

As we are back in Tier 3 restrictions we can continue with our indoor classes for Tigers & junior students. unfortunately  adults will revert back to online sessions. I appreciate that zoom sessions are not an option for many of you, but it is about all we can do at this time.
If there are any changes to this schedule I will inform you as soon as possible.

Saturdays
              11:00 -11:45    Tigers @ the Campus
Mondays
             18:00- 19:00     Juniors @ the Campus
             19:30- 20:15     Adult Zoom session
Wednesdays
             18:00 - 19:00    Juniors @ Hutton Moor
             19:30 - 20:15    Adult Zoom session

We still hope to hold gradings and online competitions whilst restrictions remain in place. 
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I hope to see you in a dobok again soon.

Unfortunately we have had to suspend our indoor Tigers classes until 2021, we will be continuing with zoom sessions for the rest of the year.

Juniors & Tigers returning to indoor training,
In line with the guidance given last week by the government we are allowed to resume indoor training sessions for our junior and tiger students. As before you must book into each class and make sure that you follow the requirements which are listed on the booking page.
Book into Junior sessions here

​Book into Tiger sessions here            
 
Adults Zoom classes
We will continue with Zoom sessions with a slightly revised time schedule to accommodate the juniors, I appreciate that Zoom sessions are not replacement for an instructor lead class, but it is all we can do at this time.
The sessions will start at 19:30 and run until  20:30 on Mondays and Wednesdays. It is the same link as we have ben using and is in the schedule table below.
 
Gradings
We are able to host a coloured belt grading before Christmas, the grading will be videoed and forwarded to Grand Master Dew to watch. Please let me know If you would like to be considered for this grading and I can forward you the application page you have to complete.
Any adults wishing to grade, please let me know and we can make arrangements to record your grading. I would like to run the grading sessions during the normal class times on 14th & 16th December.
The Black Belt grading that was supposed to happen in October has now been provisionally booked for 24th January. If the opportunity presents itself, we hope to run very limited number Black Belt sessions as soon as possible.
 
Licences and fees
Please check that your TAGB is still valid, if you are unsure please check with me. And if you are resuming your training make sure that your standing order is in place.
 
Training sessions over Christmas
We will continue with a regular class schedule up to Wednesday 23rd  December, then have a class on Wednesday 30th at Hutton Moor and Zoom. Returning back to a normal schedule from Saturday 2nd January 2021.
 
Mondays
 7th 14th & 21st
Wednesday
 9th 14th 23rd  & 30th
Saturdays
5th 12th & 19th

18:00-19:00 Juniors
@ The Campus
 
19:30 -20:30 Adults
Zoom Session
18:00-19:00 Juniors
@ Hutton Moor
 
19:30 -20:30 Adults
Zoom Session
Tigers  11:15 – 12:00
@ The Campus