June 30th, 2010
Six members of the TTA London club had the pleasure of attending a practical seminar given by Korean Olympic gold medallist Master Moon Dae-Sung. The seminar consisted of core fitness work followed by practical sparring drills and finished with a session of free sparring where the lucky ones among us had the opportunity to [...]
June 15th, 2010
For black tags with aspirations to join the select few newly promoted black belts at the club, and for black belts with the aim of brushing up on core skills, several members of TTA London made the pilgrimage up to home of TTA Taekwondo Association in Glasgow for the black belt training course.
The course covers [...]
May 23rd, 2010
Grandmaster Loh visited London in May to take the London club grading. He also presented Mr Jake Bender, club instructor, with his 3rd Dan certificate, and presented new black belts Jemima Kingsley, Abi Barber, Clare Everett and Hannah Wray with their certificates also.
Unfortunately, the regular full club photo wasn’t possible this time, but we [...]
May 6th, 2010
Four members of the club recently had the pleasure of attending a seminar given by Grandmaster Park Hae Man and held in Nottingham. Grandmaster Park is not only Grandmaster Loh’s own instructor, but is also an instrumental figure in the development of modern Taekwondo and one of four Grandmasters who originally devised the Tae Geuk [...]
April 5th, 2010
Mr Bender, Will, Esi, Abi, Chris, Duncan, Charmaine, and Hannah all attended TTA Leeds’ annual sparring course on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March 2010. This was an excellent opportunity for all students to hone their sparring skills prior to the April competition. Will had the extra challenge of completing his green tag [...]
March 10th, 2010
On Saturday 27th February, following that afternoon’s grading, four members of TTA London drove the seven and a half hours up to Glasgow for the Instructors Course Part One.
The first part of this event was a lecture by Grandmaster Loh, who explained the legal and practical aspects of teaching students up to yellow belt. [...]
March 6th, 2010
Members of the TTA London club at the February 2010 grading. Club instructor Mr Jake Bender is on the left and Grandmaster Loh is on the right.
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January 15th, 2010
Saturday 27th February
Saturday 15th May
Saturday 9th October
November 16th, 2009
TTA London members at the grading in November. Club instructor Mr Jake Bender is on the left and Grandmaster Loh is on the right. Click on the picture for a larger image.
November 16th, 2009
An oppressively autumnal Sunday provided the backdrop for the annual individuals’ competition. A pleasingly exhausting weekend in Scotland’s biggest city offered everything a TKD event could – spectacle, debate, groupies and above all, fun.
TTA London was well represented with many members either competing or refereeing – several for the first time. The results were encouraging [...]