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Ten TTA London students and our instructor attended the TTA Nottingham Summer School this summer. For 6 days, 5 hours a day, we trained with 30 or so TTA students and instructors from other clubs around the UK.
The course is usually taught by Grandmaster Loh, but this year was taught by a young guest instructor [...]
After the August grading, most of the club went to Emma and Paul’s house for a BBQ and to say good bye to Emma, who is moving back to Scotland. We’ll miss Emma, but she will be training with TTA clubs in Scotland so we look forward to seeing her at competitions in future.
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Having successfully passed his recent Black Belt promotion test, club student Andy Hopper was presented with his 1st Dan certificate by Grandmaster Loh at the recent August grading. Regrettably for the club, Andy is now moving to Peterborough so will no longer be training with us, but I am very pleased to have seen Andy [...]
Pictured left to right:
Mr Jake Bender (2nd Dan, club instructor)
Clare (1st kup)
Jemima (1st kup)
Sheeza (7th kup)
Alex (9th kup)
Mariona (9th kup)
Andy (1st Dan)
Gwyneth (10th kup)
Sarah (2nd kup)
Hattie (2nd kup)
Val (4th kup)
Jessica (9th kup)
Emma (5th kup)
Paul (6th kup)
Hannah (2nd kup)
Chris (1st kup)
Simon (1st kup)
Adam (7th kup)
Esi (8th kup)
Matthew (7th kup)
Abi (4th kup)
Alex (1st Dan)
Emily (7th kup)
Dayo [...]
The morning session saw three members of the team compete in the women’s individual competition and all come away with medals; a great start to the day. All members of the team then took to the floor in the afternoon for the team competitions. The standard was exceptionally high and everyone rose to [...]
Four members of the club recently visited Glasgow to attend a seminar with Grandmaster Park Hae Man, Grandmaster Loh’s own instructor, and an instrumental figure in the development of modern Taekwondo. The focus of the day was on working through the the set of Tae Geuk patterns as Grandmaster Park is one of four Grandmasters who originally devised the Tae Geuk poomsae. [...]
Club instructor Jake Bender, along with students Andy Hopper, Hannah Wray, Simon Smith and Chris Gilmartin recently attended the TTA sparring course held in Leeds, run under the instruction of TTA Chief Instructor Grandmaster TK Loh. The focus of the course was on techniques that are used in free sparring, such as avoiding an attack [...]
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This was our second trip to the Individual Championships and this time we came away with a gold medal, three silver medals and two bronze medals! Special congratulations to Hattie for the gold medal, and Chris for TWO medals. Find out more about the competition on the main TTA website. Congratulations to everyone who took [...]
