Black Belt Promotion

Congratulations to Alton Student Ian Kelly. Promoted to I Dan Black Belt after testing under the watchful eye of Master Nardizzi VIII Dan on 27th November 2011. Well done!

Black Belt grading

Congratulations to Paul Adams, LEARN TKD's Chief Instructor. Promotion to 5th Dan and Alexandra Haymes promotion to 1st Dan. Both students tested under Master Nardizzi 8th Dan 16/10/11

Black Belt Grading 16/07/11

Congratulations to Stefan Welfare and Harpreet Chhokar. Both students completed the 6 hour Grading on the 16/07/11 under the watchful eye of Master Nardizzi, 8th Dan, (President of ITF-England). Both students demonstrated all Patterns up to their current grade, as well as Kicking drills, Self-Defence from grabs, self defence for Stick attacks, 1-Step Sparring, Foot Sparring, Free Sparring 1 v's 1 and 2 v's 1. Twin air kicks and Hand and Foot destruction techniques.

Both students have been promoted to 2nd Dan.

Grading 15th July Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hants

Congratulations to Ian Kelly promoted to 1st Kup, Rebecca Wood promoted to 2nd kup, Bradley Cosshall, promoted to 3rd kup. Well done everyone, good all round standard from everyone. Keep it up.

LEARN TKD ETA Champions!

LEARN TKD competed at the England Taekwon-Do Ascociaton Championships on th 26th June and returned home ETA Champions with the 1st place trophy for the most Gold medals won at the championships.

Black Belt Promotions

LEARN TKD is plesed to announce the promotions of Maddy Ray and Joe Webster to 1st Degree Black Belt, and John Kiy and Paul Davis Davis to 2nd Degree Black Belt. All students attended the comprehensive 6 hour Gradng hosted by Taekwon-Do Impact in Brighton on 26th March 2011. Students were tested on Patterns, Kicking Drills, 1-Step Sparring, Foot Sparring, Free Sparring, 2 v's 1 Sparring, self defence against holds and attacks with sticks, flying kicks and destruction techniques, as well as their revelant theory tests. Congraulations to all.

TKD Tigers

LEARN TKD are pleased to announce Chief Instructor Paul Adams and Rebecca Wood have successfully comleted the TKD Tigers training programme on 12th and 13th February. TKD Tigers (Total Kids Defence) is an exciting new programme that is a life skills and Danger awareness course, based around Taekwon-Do. It does not teach the children how to hurt others, but through fun activities and role playing games, the children learn how to deal with Strangers, Bullies, Emergencies and Day-to-Day dangers, building their self awareness and confidence at every stage. The programme is designed for 3 to 6 year olds. LEARN TKD plan run to classes in Alton and other areas, in the very near future. Watch this space!

Firewalk for "Parity for Disability"

LEARN TKD Instructor Mr P Adams, IV Dan completed a Firewalk for the charity group "Parity for disability" on the 21st November at Rushmoor Fire Station.
His target, which he successfully completed, was to walk barefoot accross 20 feet of coals burning at a tempreture of 1236 degrees fahrenheit. The event was run by B.L.A.Z.E. on behalf of Parity for Disability.
Mr Adams would like to thank everybody that sponsored him. More events are planned for the future. If you would like to get involved you can visit www.parityfordisability.org.uk

READING HALF MARATHON 2010

Sunday 21st March 2010 saw Alton Student Annabel Berry running the Reading Half Marathon. (Total runners 18000).

It was a beautiful day with hot sunny spells, making running quite difficult at times. The course was quite hilly and covered some of the town centre, industrial and residential areas and finished at the Madejski Stadium.

After several months of training Annabel claimed 8409th position and completed the course in 2:08:44, which was a new personal best (last completed the course in March 2008 in 2:11)

Annabel decided to run this half marathon in aid of Guide Dogs for the blind and raised £350 (approx) through sponsorship, an awareness and fundraising event at work, guess the name of the puppy competitions and a cake stall. She is really grateful for the support and generous sponsorship especially those from fellow Taekwon-Do club mates Maddy and Gail, thank you!!

Base Camp Everest
Good Luck to LEARN TKD student and assistant Instructor Luke Warner. Luke leaves for Base Camp Everest this week to raise money for charity. Friends will be following Lukes progress via GPS information to pinpoint his location. Luke is still slighty short of his £5000 target, so if you would still like to donate money you can do so by visiting this link.