Recent Tae Kwon-Do News and Press Releases
Newquay Lifeboat Day - 8th August
31 students from the GTI Tae Kwon-Do schools in Camborne, Newquay and Truro took part in a Tae Kwon-Do display on Newquay Harbour Beach on 8th August. This demonstration was the opening event of Newquay Lifeboat Day, to raise funds for the RNLI.
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Summer Camp - 25th to 28th June 2010
In total 59 people attended our summer camp at Polly Joke near Newquay. We were blessed with incredible weather so were able to train right across the weekend, with morning sessions in the camp site field and evening sessions on Polly Joke or Crantock beach, which all ended in the sea. There was a real variety of Tae Kwon-Do training from traditional to modern knife defence and all sessions had a great fun element with plenty of games like water pistol tag, ‘save the whale’, pirates and sea warriors. Mr Liam Broderick would like to thank everyone that made this such a great weekend and is looking forward to an even bigger and better summer camp in 2011. Students who trained on every session gained 2 merit points and others that attended some of the sessions got 1 merit point.
Coloured Belt Grading - 15th May 2010
31 students graded under GTI Grading Examiner Liam Broderick 4th Dan at Threemilestone Community Centre on Saturday 15th May. All the students passed their grading, most with above average passes and have been awarded their new belts at promotion ceremonies in Truro and Camborne.
Cornish Tae Kwon-Do Championships - 21st March 2010
Tae Kwon-Do martial artists from across Cornwall and Devon have raised over £1000 for Sport Relief by competing in the Cornish Tae Kwon-Do Championships on Sunday 21st March.
Students aged between 6 and 52 competed in over 30 separate divisions, which included free sparring, patterns routines, team patterns, highest jumping kick and board breaking. In total, 123 medals were awarded to competitors from the Global Tae Kwon-Do International schools in Camborne, Newquay, Truro and Exeter.
Liam Broderick, who organised the competition says, "a big well done to all the students that competed and raised so much money for Sport Relief. Tae Kwon-Do training should involve giving back to your community and this was a great way that we could raise money for such a worthy cause, whilst taking part in a fun and rewarding day. I would like to thank everyone that got involved and also Truro Leisure Centre for their fantastic support."
Running total of amount raised: £1001
River Life Day - 6th March 2010
Students from Kernow Tae Kwon-Do Academy of Excellence joined up with the Supedads group in Camborne for a River Life Day at Tehidy Country Park. The event leader was Liam Broderick, local Tae Kwon-Do Instructor and Environment Agency ecologist, who introduced the children and adults to the diverse variety of aquatic invertebrate life inhabiting the Tehidy Stream and the various lakes and ponds within the park. Liam states, "2010 is the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity and I was very keen to recognise this with an ecology-based event for adults and children alike, which would get them thinking about the importance of working to protect our precious diversity of life. Tehidy Country Park is a very popular visitor spot but so many people there were unaware of the vast amount of life that lies just below the surface of the rivers and ponds. We worked to identify many different freshwater invertebrate groups for example, freshwater shrimp, mayflies, caddisflies, snails and leeches, but the favourite of the day was the golden-ringed dragonfly nymph, with the children loving its ability to breathe through the anus and use this as 'jet propulsion'! I would like to thank Tehidy Country Park and the Supedads group for helping to make this event possible."
GTI English Championships - 28th February 2010
Results:
John Newman - Gold destruction
Patricia Finney - Gold destruction
Edward Cummings - Bronze patterns
Ciaran Hicks - Gold patterns
Danielle Scandrett - Gold high kick, Bronze point stop sparring, Bronze continuous sparring
David Scandrett - Gold continuous sparring, Silver point stop sparring
Alana Schilling - Gold point stop sparring
Kayleigh Yates - Silver point stop sparring, Bronze continuous sparring, Bronze patterns
Pete Yates - Gold point stop sparring, Silver continuous sparring, Silver patterns
Pictured right: Camborne students Danielle and David Scandrett and Alana Schilling.
Pictured below: Truro students Edward Cummings, Pete Yates, Charlotte Brown, Mel Beattie, John Newman, Patricia Finney
(not pictured: Ciaran Hicks and Kayleigh Yates)
GTI Instructor Course - 20th/21st February 2010
Martial artists from across the South-West of England took part in an intensive weekend course in Newquay to train to become the next generation of Tae Kwon-Do Instructors. The course was hosted by Global Tae Kwon-Do International at Cornwall College Newquay's premises on Tolcarne Beach, over the weekend of 20th and 21st February. The course leader was Paresh Bhadeshia, National Coach of Global Tae Kwon-Do International who is an expert in police training, particularly crowd control and riot control. He trained the new Instructors in martial arts teaching methodology, giving them the necessary skills to take Tae Kwon-Do to a wider audience and to help new students to benefit from increased confidence, fitness, well-being and self-defence ability through Tae Kwon-Do training.
Mr Liam Broderick, Regional Co-ordinator for the GTI in the South-West would like to thank Mr Bhadeshia for a truly great course. He would also like to thank Cornwall College Newquay stating "I graduated from Cornwall College recently with an Environmental Degree and my entire time at the College was an extremely positive experience. I am delighted that Cornwall College and the GTI have been able to work together in providing a unique course at the idyllic venue of Tolcarne Beach and I look forward to working alongside the College on similar courses in the future."
The new Instructors are teaching in schools throughout Cornwall and the South-West. For more information please contact Liam on 07855 734984 or visit www.cornwall-taekwondo.com
Kernow TAE Coloured Belt Grading and Black Belt Assessment - 13th February 2010
34 Kernow TAE students (GTI Camborne and Truro) took their gradings and black belt assessments at Threemilestone Community Centre on Saturday 13th February. All the students passed and have been awarded their new belts at presentation ceremonies in the Camborne and Truro Tae Kwon-Do Academies. Mr Liam Broderick, Instructor and Grading Examiner would like to congratulate everyone for their hard work and dedication and wish them all the best as they begin working towards their next belt!
Xmas Beach Training - 27th December 2009
29 students from the Cornwall GTI Tae Kwon-Do Schools in Camborne, Newquay and Truro, along with students from Rob James' Tang Soo Do Academy took part in the 24th annual 'blow out the cobwebs' beach session on Towan Beach Newquay at 11am on Sunday 27th December. The hour-long session included Tae Kwon-Do patterns, linework and set sparring as well as beach games and ended in the sea. The organiser, Liam Broderick 4th Dan would like to thank all those who attended and also the Blue Reef Aquarium for their support once again.
Tae Kwon-Do's Got Talent for BBC Children in Need - 14th November 2009
Kernow Tae Kwon-Do Academy of Excellence hosted a Tae Kwon-Do's Got Talent competition to raise money for BBC Children in Need. The event took place on the afternoon of Saturday 14th November at Threemilestone Community Centre.
Nineteen acts too part in the talent competition which was followed by a Children's Party. Winning acts included the Jackson 3 (Instructors Mel Beattie, John Newman and Andrew Robinson), performing a Tae Kwon-Do version of Thriller, Instructor Charlotte Brown performing a routine to Cheryl Coles Fight for your Love, Kayleigh Yates performing to Tina Turner's Simply the Best and Ciaran Hicks' Supergran Tae Kwon-Do pattern.
Judges included Academy Instructor and author of the I Jack children's novels Patricia Finney, Cornwall Councillor Geoff Brown, RNLI Events Co-ordinator Christine Brown and Alan Beattie representing Falmouth Thai.
Chief Instructor Liam Broderick would like to thank the entrants, spectators and judges for their support of this important charity. He would also like to congratulate all who got involved and the superb effort that went into the acts.
Total funds raised so far: £319
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GTI British Championships - 1st November
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Cornwall produced three British Tae Kwon-Do Champions over the weekend as students from the County competed in Global Tae Kwon-Do International's British Championships on Sunday 1st November in Cheltenham. All the divisions were hotly contested as Tae Kwon-Do martial artists from many organisations throughout the UK competed for the coveted trophies. The three new Champions had to beat off stiff competition to win their respective divisions.
Alana Schilling of Camborne Tae Kwon-Do Academy won the girls yellow and green belt point stop sparring division. Ciaran Hicks of Truro Tae Kwon-Do Academy took gold in the boys blue and red belt patterns category. John Newman, a Kernow Tae Kwon-Do Academy Instructor became a 'Champion of Destruction', winning his division by being the best at breaking boards with a number of strikes, kicks and jumping techniques.
The hundreds of competitors were treated to a spectacular display from some of the top martial artists in the UK, including three times undefeated World Champion, Tony 'the Iceman' Sewell, which culminated in both him and George Cockburn being promoted to 7th Dan black belt Master of Tae Kwon-Do, in recognition of each of them having committed themselves to the promotion and development of Tae Kwon-Do for over 30 years. See the demo above right.
The Chief Instructor of Kernow Tae Kwon-Do Academy, Liam Broderick, 4th Dan would like to congratulate Cornwall's new British Champions and also Tae Kwon-Do Masters Sewell and Cockburn on their promotion.
Pictured in the back row; Instructors John Newman and Liam Broderick and front row; Alana Schilling and Ciaran Hicks.