Well done to both GTUK England and Scotland Squads.
The GTUK now have New World Champions, with loads of Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals throughout the categories!
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Bungay and Beccles Taekwondo Students took part in their 2nd belt grading of the year at Bungay High School on Sunday 14th June.
All students were graded on their individual belt syllabuses, which included patterns, techniques, step sparring, self defence, sparring, destruction, and a test of their knowledge in both English and Korean.
GTUK Examiner Mr Steve King VI degree was very pleased with the progress of all students, and said that the standards were very high, he congratulated them on their 100% pass rate, with many being mums and dads successfully grading alongside their children, and noted that “it was fantastic to see so many new members signing up to ‘have a go’ at this martial art”.
This is a great time to start this family orientated sport, giving new members time to learn the 1st belt syllabus in readiness for the October grading, it takes 4 years to learn the full syllabus and become a 1st Degree Black Belt student.
If you would like to come and have a go the first session is always free, see our web sites for more details:
Mr Clinton Gillett V Degree Instructor
www.bungay-taekwondo.co.uk
Mr and Mrs Bedingfield II Degree Instructors
www.beccles-taekwondo.co.uk
Well done to all the Bungay Taekwondo competitors who took part in last weekends UITF British Open.
Twenty competitors from Bungay and Beccles Taekwondo clubs travelled to the heart of England in order to compete in this year’s British Open Taekwondo championships at the weekend and despite huge categories and some very heavy contact they came away with a stunning 21 medals!
Gordon Perkis and Kerry Norfolk achieved fantastic double gold medals for sparring and patterns whilst Amanda Linford achieved gold for patterns and silver for sparring, Lucy Thurbon fought superbly for her gold in sparring and bronze in patterns.
Jason Drake (from Beccles Club), and Jade Howgate achieved double silver medals in their divisions.
Tegan Brown performed superbly in order to be awarded silver for sparring and bronze for patterns, whilst Amber Swanston, Liam Everett and Jacob Burden fought really hard for their bronze medals. Colby Aldrich was really unlucky to come 4th in his category after many rounds of hard competition.
The event culminated in Club instructor Clinton Gillett, fighting assistant instructor Martin Sloan in the final of the Veteran middle weight Black belt male sparring with Clinton winning on points.
Martin therefore gained silver for sparring and bronze for patterns with Clinton getting the gold for sparring and a bronze for patterns in the international category.
Thomas Adams, Jake Swanston, Bailey Aldrich, Christian Everett, Jayden Howgate, Ben Burden and Harry Norfolk were fabulous competitors but missed out on the medals in this instance.
The clubs are gearing up for the summer grading in June but there is still an opportunity to get started in this dynamic sport and details can be found on the clubs websites.
Stunning Medals!
Thanks to Christian Everett who brought in some lovely birthday cake for everyone in the club, and to Liam for helping give it all out on Thursday night.
Congratulations to Master Richard Auciello on passing his 7th degree and becoming a Master.
Also congratulations to Mr Darren Holmes on passing his 6th degree.
The GTUK is very lucky to have 2 such inspirational senior instructors.