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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]